String Quartet 1

This is the first movement of my 1st string quartet. I have recently finished the other two movements but have not perfected the notation yet so I will upload them later.Anyway I was inspired by Heitor Villa Lobos' quartets when I wrote this, it's fairly experimental, I've tried to use polyrhythms and polytonality on places (however these are more prominent in later movements)It is in sonata form but not in the traditional sense, following different rhythm variations rather than key changes etc. There are some it that are melodic (subject 2) and I use it in my development area to make an alltogether new melody.This melody is then used as a coda at the end.Please tell me what you guys think, I have been working on this for a long time and appreciate anyone's comments who listensThanks

String Quartet 1

It doesn't play. Only buffering.

same here :s

Doesn't play for me either.

The score looks wired:

Is it dorian? You start of with octaves, then the standard C-major comes,, but then: b,c,e? The whole piece also is mainly homophonic, maybe that is going to be a bit boring after a while. But I don't want to judge about the piece until I've heard it (And I am to lazy to take it to a quite place, take the time and listen to it in my head or to play it at the piano )

Armin

Doesn't play for me either.

The score looks wired:

Is it dorian? You start of with octaves, then the standard C-major comes,, but then: b,c,e? The whole piece also is mainly homophonic, maybe that is going to be a bit boring after a while. But I don't want to judge about the piece until I've heard it (And I am to lazy to take it to a quite place, take the time and listen to it in my head or to play it at the piano <img src="http://network.youngcomposers.com/elgg/ipb/public/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif" alt=":rolleyes:" /> )

Armin

I don't know what's happening I think the file is too big....

Hubert the notes were concieved by taking a few starting notes and making them move either one up or one down in contrary motion.

And yes, I forgot to mention that the piece is more focused on changes in rhythm rather than tones, it is homophonic for much of the piece because it is to sound very thick and 'together'.

So during the changes in the sonata form instead of changing keys etc it is more focused on changing rhythmic patterns.

Have you tried re-uploading the piece? That may solve the problem.

I'd be happy to listen to the piece then :happy:

Please reupload, looks interesting. judging from the score alone, you have roughly one hundred thousand times too much rhythmic unison between parts- have them more rhythmically independent and you may just have something on your hands.