" Quintet Of The Jackal "

In this composition i utilize what i call " Castle Musical Architecture " Which i

also used in my previous midi post: " Nonet Of Transcendence ".: I hope you

can swallow it & absorb it's majestic energy......:O

Could you please explain this technique "Castle Musical Architecture"?

What is it?

They are the measures that appear symmetrical & intricately harmonically layered which to me looks like many castles in formation in the sky. They start in measure 69 & repeat again in 149.

There are some interesting spooky moments,could you post the score please???

After listening again to this and some of your other compositions I must say that I really enjoy your music. You have a style which is quite unique and immediately recognizeable as your own. This mix of Spookynes and humour really appeals to me.

What I don't like so much: Your pieces are all very short,and the second half is mostly just the first half of the composition repeated. Also you tend to repeat sequences of one and the same motive all the time in pieces, which can get pretty monotonous (like in Neptunian fugue),(but in Quintet of the Jackal you did this a bit better).

I would love it if you would work longer on your pieces before posting them,and add more variety to them and develop your motives a bit! Your pieces feel all a bit incomplete! But your musical language is very appealing and I hope to hear longer,more elaborate works from you in the future!!

And also please post the score to this piece!

thank you dai for your reviews, i understand your constructive views, I do need to improve on the architectural musical formula. If your style is like

my own, then maybe the great composer erik satie is watching. here is the pdf u requested. thank you!

..Interesting tactic of using a specific visual to create literal shapes in the musical score, which of course then can potentially lead to unusual and interesting texture, harmony and rhythm.

Hi, I can't play the midi file as I'm at work - what instruments are you using? Doesn't look like a string or wind quintet....

I'm not a morning person, so I'm probably missing something obvious!

Nathaniel, you can explain it better that I can. The Instruments used are

Acoustic Grand Piano

Viola

Cello

Oboe

Clarinet

I don't get this...Isn't music supposed to be a way of communicating grand ideas, feelings and the unexplainable in a universal language? This to me feels like an exercise in...well I don't know, but it feels like If my mac set to work making music this is what it would give me. It just doesn't communicate anything to me whatsoever and in fact it feels alienating, as a group of people speaking an unfamiliar language in your presence would make you feel like an outsider.

As for 'castle musical architecture' - seems like a jargon term to me and doesn't reflect anything that i'm hearing. All the greatest composers start from the simple and basic form and structure of music that has been developed for thousands of years. There's a reason for this; there are certain unwritten laws in music which determine what sounds appealing to our ear - it is of course subjective to an extent, but if you boil down all the great music you'll find the same key elements. I don't know what a complete disregard for this is meant to achieve but it didn't do it for me.

grumble grumble grumble...... :-D

What can i say, I am an extremely eccentric composer who satirizes(or at least gives one

the impression)academic rules in general with much daring freedom of innovation breaking

away from the traditional forms leading to a new perspective though not disregarding

doctrinal musical diciplines altogether for as a true composer not only must one

observe the foundations, but also breakaway from the constraints of the past!

Music is a shapeless sculpture with all the possible compositions in the infinite arranged

executively & infinitely with a certain universal logic & immaculate beauty. What a

beautiful sculpure! So, who is to say what music is & isn't? Some people have often

told me my music isn't music, it's something else. What could that be? In a good sense

of humor let's say it's the art of dissonance, the chaotic behavior of subatomic

particles.:toothygrin:

As lucid as a middle aged lush - so you're mantra is why use one sentence when 10 will do? If that same logic applies to your music then it proves my point about delivering to your audience an alienating experience, where the objective is not to get across an idea - musical or otherwise, but to subject it to your self-indulgence and vanity?

Perhaps you can educate me - what are you trying to get across with this music?

I think this is just the view of a pragmatist versus a fantasist, so apologies if that's the case and i'll drop my point because otherwise there'll never be a resolution :-)

If i am the fantasist, then your right, there is resolution.:D

You need to clean up your score:

-Instrument names needed

-You've got tempo markings and dynamics and all sorts of things colliding which makes it difficult to read. Give some space between staves too.

-You say the quintet has only a single piano but all of the staves have pedal markings on them - these are meaningless to the other instruments. Bar numbers would be very helpful too.

-Why are the top and bottom staves indented on page 5 and 10?

-Tempo at the start?

-Piano part needs the two staves joined together

The music itself is a bit random and repetitive. There were a few discernible motifs but they were not really developed, and the texture did not make use of the colouristic possibilities of the five instruments.

yes, i need to spend more time in the art of score illustration, thank you! As for the pedal markings on all intruments, the reason is that that is the only way to effect my sounds the way they are intended to sound, otherwise the composition would leave something to be desired! But i appreciate your points which are valid, but nonetheless contradict my modus operandi!