Waltz of the Alley

Vals del Callejon

Opus 25

for orchestra

Hey,

Working on how to make an orchestral piece that could be easily accepted by a real orchestra/conductor I made this piece but looks like is still a little large, (15 min) I was advised that a 3-5 minutes piece would be better for that purpose.

For me, thinking in a 3-5 minutes orchestral work was a problem of development, how could I start, raise and end a work in 3-5 minutes ? ….after a tiny meditation I found the solution, To write a short, beautiful, decent waltz.

"Callejon" means a little street (in spanish) with no cars, walking only ...

In my city (the old part, the downtown) there are many alleys like this one you can see here:

So here it is. This is the most classical and shortest work I’ve ever made, this is in the limits of simplicity and time-reduction, I think I can’t write something shorter. I also reduced the orchestra even more, removing the harp and xylophone.

I think I have reduced the possibilities of “pretexts” for the conductor to accept a piece like this.

Sequenced and Recorded in Sibelius 6

All Sounds by EDIROL Orchestra

and Leslie Sanford Reeverb in effect bus 1

Recording and Score here:

Hope you like it...

Edited September 11, 201015 yr by SYS65
moved from the archive

Very beautiful. I do agree with you as well, I find it hard to limit myself in time constraints.

cute little piece. I think its good you limit yourself.

Ms 78 reminded me of a part of The Rite of Spring by Stravinsky. Do you know the Spring Rounds (4rth movement, I guess) there is a similar part with piccolo trills. There is a lot different, I know that, but this looked almost like a quotation. Was it intentional?

ms 78 ? .... Ouuuuu yes .... ups!

No, I wasn't even thinking in the Rite, haha, Accidental I assure you :D

Actually I feel myself a little werid writing this kind of music in the year 2009, I made this in 5 days, and now, day 6, I feel this is some kid of step back in my music ...

On the other hand, I'm glad to see I'm able to write this kind of music, you never know when something like this will be useful ....

what do you think, is it, in some how, wrong to write a piece like this in the times we're living now ?

Anyway, Thanks for listening.

(I see I forgot to click the "transposition score" button before creating the pdf, I was seriously distracted yesterday :D , well, download the score in C, before I upload the link with the final pdf)

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The final versions of the Score and the Recording have been updated.

(I may finish the writing of those ugly slurs someday, but, for the moment, this issue it's done.)

EDIT:

by saying "this issue it's done" that doesn't mean you have to stop posting :)

Lovely! I would like to know more about your creative thinking process. I'm one of those lame composers that knows little about theory (though learning) and really wants the best for his creations.

Thanks for commenting,

the "creative thinking process" is actually something very difficult to describe, Knowledge, time, life events, feelings, many things are involved on it, Now I recall I made a Flash animation where I describe it much better, don't remember why I did it but I have it saved somewhere, let me find it and I post it in the "Headquarters" section...

You just don't worry to much about the quality of you works, you just need keep composing and time to do it. Usually the compositions hold the best of what we could do in that moment, if the older works seem too easy with the time is a good signal or true improvement.

Very good orchestration, with a wonderful theme.

Greetings

Thanks, I was requested to make a Piano reduction of this, but I haven't had time to finish it, besides you won't believe this, but I find it difficult to reduce...:facepalm:

Anyone would like to try making a piano version of this, I can send you what i've done so far...:unsure: