Gymnopédie

I recorded this with my mp3's voice recorder, which can record soft music pretty well.The title is a reference to Erik Satie. I hope you enjoy it.EDIT: Sorry about the voices in the background. My sisters are incapable of shutting their annoying food holes for a few minutes.

Gymnopédie

Hello Ian,

Congratulations, I just listenend and read your piece. It really sounds nice, nicely played as well. You clearly created a gymnopedie-feeling, whatever that may be. I especially liked your harmonization just after the repeat and further on when repeating the main theme. good job!

One remark - actually more a question then a remark - have you a) studied Satie's gymnopedies and or the orchestration by Debussy? Perhaps you could return to your main theme by using a chord progression to have a break in the expected melodic flowing (do not know if I explain clearly what I want to convey, but always using one melodic line may become just a bit tiresome at one point, so perhaps it would be an occasion to break it and then return to your single melodic line).

But good work, I really enjoyed it.

W.S.

As a composition, I love it. But. Does it sound too much like Satie?

The Gymnopedie was such a good idea! I wish Satie didn't steal it! Quality- (9.5/10) Originallity (6.10)

Make the style your own, as you have shown that you have a good grip on the style.

Keep composing!

WolfgangSachs- I have played some of Satie's gymnopedies and gnossiennes, but have not studied them (unless playing them is considered as that). I think I get what you mean about the break. It didn't cross my mind. Thanks.

TheWannabeChopin- I was afraid somebody would criticize me for sounding too much like Satie. Oh well.

@ the Wannabe Chopin & @ Ian: I think that nobody can ever sound too much like Satie... :-) but then that is just me. Personally, I do not think, Ian, your composition sounds too much like Satie. A gymnopedie has the disadvantage of sounding like Satie after two measures, just because it is that remniscent. IMO your work sound(ed) personel, a good continuation of an established form.

WS

Thanks WS. I'm going to take your advice and rewrite this with a "break".

Ah, very relaxing... felt like I was drifting away. The background sounds actually help the mood a bit. Great work, I hope you compose more in this style!

Thanks Sepharite.

Okay I revised it with a "break." It is a bit longer now.

I loved this.

The melody is a lot freer from the beat than are the Trois Gymnopedies, but evoke Satie you did

Also a human recording is nice to listen to after having lots of people with Finale and Sibelius-made mp3s.

The Trois Gymnopedies also don't end the way yours does with a bass and a chord. They end on a suspension if I recall correctly.

Good twist on a very good form! 9/10

I liked it. I think the piece is very faithful to Satié's language and his idea of furniture music (especially by the voices, jeje )

Congrats.

It's so chilled out and relaxing -- definitely Satie :lol:

I find it difficult to focus on the piece and the score itself when I hear music like this: I just close my eyes and try to sleep instead :sleep: But this is in a good way, not an "Omigawd, this is soooo boring I must escape", but as though it's a lullaby :)

Nice job ^_^

I really enjoyed this, as I am a fan of Satie. It is extremely reminiscent of his Gymnopedies. Even your score resembles his, but you still maintain a unique flavor of your own.

There is a choral piece I am performing in at my University that was also inspired by Satie's Gymnopedies called Hitaat ja karseat hautajaisvalssit (Grim and Glacial Funeral Waltzes), I couldn't find a recording of the full piece online, but if you're interested in hearing a sample, you can hear it here: http://www.amazon.com/karseat-hautajaisvalssit-Glacial-Funeral-Waltzes/dp/B002KLNTO6

i too wouldn't think it's very satiesque, as it is gymnopediesque, but that's not really important. i would rather like ti think that the whole musical texture, with background noises and skew recording forms a very nice piece in itself. like something you found after some years passed among tapes you recorded. in the end time passed since satie made gymnopedies and proposed the ideas of furniture music. so it may function as a document of really a forgone era or idea, that was used and overused since it's birth, found somewhere in a dirt/dust between wall and the piano.

I really enjoyed this, as I am a fan of Satie. It is extremely reminiscent of his Gymnopedies. Even your score resembles his, but you still maintain a unique flavor of your own.There is a choral piece I am performing in at my University that was also inspired by Satie's Gymnopedies called Hitaat ja karseat hautajaisvalssit (Grim and Glacial Funeral Waltzes), I couldn't find a recording of the full piece online, but if you're interested in hearing a sample, you can hear it here: http://www.amazon.co...s/dp/B002KLNTO6

I liked that. a bit less serious that Satie's pieces. I don't see why it needs to be for a choir, though, it sounds so instrumental. Anyways, thanks for the comments everybody.

In ms 17, when you play the Ab an octave lower, I think that voicing/spacing fits better

Only one thing left to say- "Beautiful!"