Reverie

This is a piece for solo Cello with Piano accompaniment, featuring extended string-playing techniques, and a harmonic sound tube, or 'whirly'. It explores and develops various different motifs within episodes, returning to 'fanfare-like' idea using natural harmonics. Each time this theme returns, it has modulated down a fifth. The piece ends with a return to the first idea, in the tonic major.

Reverie

Score? Helps a lot people, including me, who don't have the best of ears.

Very rockin' piece. What bands do you listen to? I definitely hear a little Hendrix in here, maybe a little Zeppelin too. The softer bits definitely sound like American folk, maybe a little gospel in there too, the dissonances here are a little cheesy sometimes. The part with the ringing piano drone stuff and the cello above is really nice. I didn't find the pizz. section that interesting, it just seemed like you wanted to have a pizz. section, so you through it in. Maybe if you developed it a bit more (bringing it to a larger climax), and added a bit more melody, it could've worked better. Cool stuff overall. Strange unresolved ending, but still works for me, as I've definitely heard it in pop songs before.

Who's performing? A pretty passionate performance by the cellist, certainly, just wish they could be a little more in tune. The sounds like a keyboard, which is not good at all. It's a shame because the cello is well recorded.

I'm not into a lot this rock/pop cross-over type stuff that's been happening in the last few years, but I thought this was pretty good. Maybe a few more movements to make it feel more like a complete piece?

Score uploaded! Sib though, not set up at the moment to do a PDF, will do soon.

Thanks, glad you like it! I had never thought of it as a rock/pop crossover piece, but that's an interesting angle. I composed it as my A Level composition, and for a large competition too. I performed it myself, both the Cello and Piano, but the Cello is live and Piano is MIDI. I wish I could have been a little more in tune in some of the high parts too, but It's some of it is pretty difficult haha! But most of it is completely in tune.

Bands I listen to? Have never really been into those classic rock bands, used to be a pretty big Muse/Radiohead fan, but I wouldn't say they have influenced this piece at all. I have been quite inspired recently by playing Gaspar Cassado's Cello suite, which has influenced some of it I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for the long and complimentary review! It's great to hear how other people hear and interpret your music. I'll upload some more of my work soon.

I can hear the muse influence, definitely. That's probably closer than the stuff I mentioned. A lot of the cello extended techniques were used in a way that's reminiscent of a guitar solo, so I was thinking of guitar solo music. I'm not that familiar with rock stuff at all, really, so maybe I should avoid making misinformed comparisons!

Ok, yes I know what you mean about the 'guitar solo' sound. Presumably that is the 'sul pont' passage, with its gritty sound timbre and free glissandi. The score is now up as a PDF if you want to see it. And I've just uploaded another, slightly older piece too if you're interested, for solo piano.

Regardless of whether you intended it, I get a huge amount of rock, jazz and soul impressions from this. :happy: . The use of extended techniques, development, and a bit of modulation directs the music away from the "dreaded pop sound", as I like to call it, and really contributes to the interest and quality of the piece. The extended techniques are very well-done, it's apparent you are a string player :santa: . Great job on this work, it's quite good hones:

Thanks a lot! Well I imagine that Jazz probably has been an influence. I suppose its influenced by everything that's entered my ear canals over the past year! hones: