Quartet No. 1

This is my 1st post here.

Ive only listened to the 1st movement which i thought was great, sounded quite like Moeran's chamber music. I liked the pizzicato and the melody as other people said sounded fresh. Only thing i would say is develop that 1st movement, make it a bit longer. It needs a contrasting middle section then to come back to the opening theme, an A-B-A type progression.

Hopefully i'll get round to listening to the other movements sometime.

I liked the pizzicato, sounds much better as mp3. I've only listened to the 1st movement, I feel it's too short, but pizzicato can only be appreciated so long, so it's probably for the best that it's short. I'm looking forward to the rest of this piece. I'll keep you updated!

Vernon

You know, you could look into Benjamin Britten Simple Symphony for strings, he does a whole movement in pizz a real eye opener.

I very much liked the first movement, it was rather quirky I thought! I little two much chromatacism just before bar 50, apart from that, quite cute and innocent! Very likeable.

I am not an atonal fan, so the harmonies that you used weren't to my liking, however, a lot of people like atonality, so go and be experimental if you want to be!

For some reason I can't listen to the third movement, so I can't comment! :(

Anyway! It was very nice, keep composing!

Thank you everyone for your comments since last I posted. I'm glad that most of you, it seems, liked the pizzicato element. Pretty much, when I was writing this piece, whenever I wanted to lighten the mood or mix it up somehow, I ended up doing that through pizzicato, and I'm glad that that didn't come off as seeming like an obvious ploy. I've learned a lot from writing this quartet and everyone's comments on the forum and in real life, and so I think I am ready, when I write a new quartet, to write a much more sophisticated one!

I think Nirvana69 said it best for the most part.

Movement one reminded me of watching "Tom and Jerry" which was great.

However, I could not get into the music as much as I would have liked because I couldn't hear any sort of set melody. I felt lost at times.

Overall very enjoyable.

cool stuff

I like the first movement.

I'll listen to the others soon

I know, this is an old topic. But I must say this: Introduction of the first movement is one of the most successful and beautiful introductions I've ever listen. Thanks for this beautiful music. :)

Can you reupload the scores? And if you upload MIDI files of them, I'll be much appreciated. :)