Before sunrise - Romantic Jazz

Wrote this for a short cue.

Includes piano, strings and accordion

http://www.lyndonholland.com/music/before%20sunrise.mp3

Let me know what you guys think!

Sorry haven't got a score

Wow that was beautiful! :)

I could definately see this in an old black & white movie set in Paris. Especially when the Accordion enters. ;)

I loved it! Great job. :thumbsup:

I would consider this much closer to Tin-Pan Alley Pop than jazz, but that doesn't really matter.

It's got a bit of a Mancini-esque flair to it.

Some of the piano dissonances don't really work for me. Look into Thelonious Monk or Charles Mingus a bit more to handle that in a more jazzy way; don't know who to send you to for what you're actually going for in this piece because I'm not as well versed in it.

I loved it, the tonality of the peice was just perfectly pitched and i would have to agree with "franzman" that it could be suited to a film sountrack.

sweet! i like it. there were like two dissonances (like ferksoksfj;laskjfsojv said) that dont seem to work, and actually sound like wrong notes. i'd very much like to see you expand this piece into like 4-5 minutes. i know u said it was for a short cue, but it hink it could be developed into a whole five minute piece

Yes i agree this is really nice...

I may very well be the only person that knows this, but I couldnt help but think this sounded quite like a melody from the movie Sabrina, composed by John Williams no less haha.

You could totally expand on this...

I liked the "wrong notes " in the piano near the end - the little marching bassline in the piano - it seemed a nice transition to something a littler darker and uneasy. Why didn't you continue

As for the main part - yes very reminiscent of Mancini and this could go on much more.