"Roundabout" for whistling string 4tet

Heya, so this is a quick sketch i wrote for a string quartet that also whistles. I'm not really sure about this piece, but that's what's summer's for, right? It came about from me fooling around and recording myself whistling over myself whistling. It's an exact retrograde of itself and has got a fair amount of canonic stuff, so hence the name (i'm awful with names, btw :P) Ummm...yeah, what do you folks think? I'd love any comments you might have.

whistle-4tet.pdf

whistle-4tet.MID

you are giving people an octave and a half whistling range, which is pretty large. people generally whistle in the same octave, so it would probably be somewhat blurry and muddy too.

in between the whistling, i am not quite sure what you are aiming for with the strings. it is quite sporadic and doesn't quite make musical sense to me.

you are onto some good stuff. bringing in some different ways to perform as a string quartet is always good. just look at the way you wrote it.

cheers.

you are giving people an octave and a half whistling range, which is pretty large. people generally whistle in the same octave, so it would probably be somewhat blurry and muddy too.

in between the whistling, i am not quite sure what you are aiming for with the strings. it is quite sporadic and doesn't quite make musical sense to me.

you are onto some good stuff. bringing in some different ways to perform as a string quartet is always good. just look at the way you wrote it.

cheers.

My whistling range is just shy of two octaves. Lot's of practice i suppose. ;)

now the trick is to find 3 others who can match it =p

mine is an octave plus 3 notes, but that is beginning on an f. ergo, some parts of that would be quite impossible for me

Yes, definitely an interesting idea. The music somehow reminds me of Ocarina of Time...haha, yes, I'm a nerd. But seriously, you have a good melody and a good way of presenting, just try to figure out a different way to write it. And you could do so much better with development and everything, I KNOW you can...

Great job!

Yeah, i was kinda wondering about the range... Thanks for the heads-up, everyone. That's what comes from me taking a non-representational sample size to determine reasonable ranges (in this case, two people :P)

And, yes, i do need to rewrite it quite substantially. I just wanted to post to see if people thought it would be a worthwhile idea to develop... Back to work on the piece! Thanks again for taking the time to look at this!

i like it. SHould sound good when you have every one doing everything. I would be concerned though about finding people who can both whistle professionally and play strings professionally.

You may need a professional whistler/violinst such as Andrew Bird (ok... he plays semi pop folk music, but still worth checking out)