Symphonic Poem "Andromeda"

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Symphonic Poem "Andromeda"

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Andromeda is a beautiful princess from a greek myth_ the main theme is discribing her, and the second theme marked pesante represents the sea monster in the myth. hope u enjoy, and please leave comments~ :D thx

new updated version of the piece is posted:

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the melody was just horrible. i stopped listening after 30 seconds. it was just unbearable. orchestration wasn't bad, but that melody is just throwing everything off.

that first version you had where you had the warmup and the applause? please, what was your intention? i'm sure most of us are human enough to tell that wasn't a live recording.

I too am not fond of the main theme but is is a n interesting piece. Well done.

I would hardly call the melody "just horrible" - it was actually quite interesting. It is well developed throughout the piece. I would strongly encourage you to keep composing - this piece is a good indication of your talent at such a young age. The ending was rather weak in my opinion, that being the only thing that I would work on. Anyway, keep up the good work.

He must have updated the mp3, because I don't hear appaulse.

Hello Clarinetcola!

Here are some comments on your piece (please, excuse my English!).

First of all, I liked the way you change the instrumentation each time you repeat the Andromeda main theme. This talent's required to compose non annoying music: you're certainly talented this way. By the way, Beefybeef says your « orchestration » isn't bad: he should have said « instrumentation ». Orchestration means what instruments to put together on the stage in order to play the piece, when instrumentation means what instruments (among those chosen for the orchestration) to use throughout the piece to create different colours and atmospheres.

Second, your piece goes somewhere, it's a great quality that not all pieces seen here have... :shifty: You maintain the listener interest using good sequences of increasing tension whith more instruments playing together, then sudden falls of tension using one or two instruments, then starting again...

At about 3 mn 2s, I regret the cello appearance is so short! As a cello player, he,he... You could have placed here, using the cello, a marvellous episode.

You've chosen to finish on a major chord. Why not? Perhaps it could sound more unexpected, more brillant, perhaps by coming from nothing, one instrument, two, three, a sudden and accellerating rise to explode in F Major.

Well, these are only suggestions, I do not pretend telling you what you have to do.

Francis :P

I think the links are down; can you post some more?

I agree that beefybeef went a little too hard. It's not a bad piece! I actually kinda liked it. It's different.