May 13, 200817 yr On the Shores of Dover I know the score is a little messy. I'll fix that up in due course. Any comments especially from band directors/players is welcome. Note that scorch is required to see the score. Program Note: This is my second march. It is in the key of D-flat major modulating to G-flat in the trio. It is in standard March form (IAABBCBreackC)with an added recapitulation to the first strain and coda at the end. Please listen to the mp3 for best sound. Parts coming soon!
May 13, 200817 yr The mp3 wouldn't work for me but I listened to the sibellus version I liked it , I couldn't see the score to well but I liked it , it was very enjoyable.
May 14, 200817 yr Author If you click on the blue button towards the top saying "Listen to mp3 Now" then the mp3 will stream. Alternatively, you can download the mp3 from the little green box under the score info.
May 14, 200817 yr well regardless I liked it, but when I go on mp3 it say's direct player won't open., but good job., I've never wrote a March But After listening to that I'm going to study Some Of The Sousa Marches and do some research and compose one.
May 14, 200817 yr scorch is annoying...but the piece is not. I personally have very little taste for march's...however, yours i like. you are a beast of a composer. Sounds like you really know what you are doing and have a fantastic ability to orchestrate. Training? Where? Very nice piece. Its cute...makes me giggle.
May 14, 200817 yr i actually JUSt finished listening to it, and haha, the finale is fantastic. Im imagining the pianist if this was to be arranged for soloist, and how tired they would be by the end of it. So much energy!!! The snare sounds like a fart at the end hahaha...but now i will honestly say i utterly enjoyed this piece! Its marvelous.
May 14, 200817 yr Author Man I love this site!!! More feedback in less time than SibeliusMusic. :D scorch is annoying...but the piece is not. I personally have very little taste for march's...however, yours i like. you are a beast of a composer. Sounds like you really know what you are doing and have a fantastic ability to orchestrate.Training? Where? Very nice piece. Its cute...makes me giggle. As my personality is woven into every piece I write, I guess it makes sense. I'm loud, bombastic, and have a great sense of humor. Humor is easy to write into music, but to do it well is very difficult because it can be interpreted many different ways by different people. This is an art that can only be learned through experience. But I digress... Training? My own eys and ears. I haven't really had formal training in composition at all. Studying scores is monumentally more helpful than a lame teacher telling you what to do and then not leting you try whatever you want. (Generalization there. I know not all teachers are like that.) Study some Mahler and you find out what's really going on in his head. I am going to Mannes next year for composition so I should improve in the "formal learning" department. My orchestration chops were learned early (lucky me) due to my dad buying me Adler's book when I was 13. I have read it cover to cover and disceted much of what he says. Yes, I do have my own criticisms about what his orchestrational techniques are. I almost always compose directly to the full score because orchestration is just as important, if not more important than counterpoint or harmonic intrest or voice leading and all that other junk that makes Music Theory complicated. Now I love all that stuff, but if you're writing for a large ensemble and you can't orchestrate, your finished! Sorry for the puesdo-rant. It comforts me that I can share these opinions around with people who understand what I'm saying.
May 14, 200817 yr Author hey will you check out my song Blue sky jazz , and tell me what you think? How do I get to it? I'm not the familiar with the site yet.
May 15, 200817 yr I grew up in the wind ensemble, and I still play in the wind ensemble (mostly because I haven't had the opportunity to play in the undergraduate orchestra, aside from the Opera). That being said, I have a question, do you really like marches Justin?
May 15, 200817 yr Author Not really. I find many to be too repetative and over-played, often badly. But a good Sousa march can always lift one's spirits. "Hand Across the Sea" is a fine example.
May 15, 200817 yr Excellent! Really well written, great part writing and harmonic voicing, incredibly professional I'd say. Would be nice to have this performed by a live orchestra to do it justice though. Enjoying listening to this as I speak! Just checked your profile, don't mean to patronise you, but this is really exceptional work for someone of your age! How many years have you been writing?
May 16, 200817 yr About 4 seriously. But music has been in my life forever. Ah lucky, I started writing when I was 17:blush: Well trust me on this one, I think you could make a valuable contribution to music if you keep writing and studying. This is a great piece, but I would have guessed it had been written by somebody much older! Impressive stuff.
May 22, 200817 yr Wow! Great piece! I absolutely love it! Though scorch really sucks... I can't view it properly... But the mp3 sounds great!
July 2, 201015 yr woah, can't believe there was a time when tokke wasn't an arrogant know-it-all jerk. :D
August 2, 201015 yr Author woah, can't believe there was a time when tokke wasn't an arrogant know-it-all jerk. :D :blink: Back then I was more arrogant than ever! :) Oh, the teenager years.
