Chorale: Now Thank We All Our God

I totally agree with Nightengale's point. The music is obviously very well written, and the style of the period is emulated at the top level. However can anyone give me a reason why would someone go and buy a cd of it when there is Bach and other baroque masters there to choose from. ???

On the other hand, by omiting this statement, I loved your music. It's written and performed very good.

Great! i love this you are a great composer :D

goooooooooooooooood

i like it

This is good stuff; while, to my ear, it does sound like a Bach cantata, that isn't a problem because most composers start by sounding quite a bit like those who came before them. And even if you wanted to sound completely like Bach, I think that's nearly impossible, as your 'voice' will always come through in your compositions.

Again, this is good.

I think this thread has been long abandoned until now...

Well actually this is a great piece! :P

Pardon me, but I have to take issue with this.

There is plenty of room for the development of a "personal style" while keeping up the rigours of the Baroque idiom, and I think our friend here does a wonderful job of it.

You don't write a new novel that's already been written and replace adjectives here and there that make use of more contemporary lingo and call it your own personal voice.

....The only thing that makes work like this "wrong" in the eyes of people today (and in my opinion, the snobs) is that the 18th century is dead and buried and we ought to keep it that way.

I'm working to change that, as many of you are already well aware.

That's a real shame, I rather hear music which is inspired by the time you live in with all its own intricacies and complexities (and still manages to be timeless, but not from a compositional perspective) instead of music which ignores the innovations of the present and merely keeps the valuable (and essential) traditions of the past. I rather hear you trying to write music based on your own personal experiences (which contribute to a personal vision which leads to original art) than trying to put yourself in the shoes of an individual who lived hundreds of years ago.

I also don't appreciate your perception of these people as snobs, as you are being just as snobbish saying that we think the 18th century is dead and that we want to keep it that way. In terms of providing new and meaningful artistic content in our times which is not divorced from our time but can certainly transcend it, yes, composing in that style is highly immature and only suitable to perfect ones technique in counterpoint and imitation.

-Alex

I totally agree with Nightengale's point. The music is obviously very well written, and the style of the period is emulated at the top level. However can anyone give me a reason why would someone go and buy a cd of it when there is Bach and other baroque masters there to choose from. ???

On the other hand, by omiting this statement, I loved your music. It's written and performed very good.

Another great point. I don't see a very compelling reason. He would have to be just as good or better than Bach, which, given that we cannot even know how he saw his world, seems quite absurd to attempt.

I don't care when this music was composed, who the composer was trying to imitate, or which style it tries to fit into. Simply, when I am listening to this music, I find myself thinking, "This music is quite beautiful."

I don't care when this music was composed, who the composer was trying to imitate, or which style it tries to fit into. Simply, when I am listening to this music, I find myself thinking, "This music is quite beautiful."

Yeah, but have you really listened to the beautiful works composed in that period from which he is imitating? They are not only of that period but extremely well developed (much more so than this fine imitation). After a while the closer you get to imitating a style you reach a point where you have to choose between copying a composer of the period outright (which he will inevitably get closer and closer to doing) or just writing music which is contemporary and inspired by your personal experiences in the 21st century rather than your experience of music written hundreds of years ago by composers who lived in completely different times. If you notice, you're twice removed from the original source; that being that you don't live in that time period and you don't know/are not those composers. Neo-baroque music sounds very different than this because it attempts to reimagine baroque aesthetic principles in a context wholly influenced by contemporary experiences. This is in contrast to recreating works influenced by music composed by composers who are dead and who have composed music which is non-contemporary (but contemporary for their times).

Very beautiful and skillful composed even if it does seem like a composite of several Bach cantata movements.

This is in contrast to recreating works influenced by music composed by composers who are dead and who have composed music which is non-contemporary (but contemporary for their times).

Yawn. So we get our jollies by writing music that sounds like this. We're not "recreating" anything. We're not copying anyone. And we're certainly not forcing anyone to listen to it if they don't want to.

Would you say that Handel copied Corelli, or that W. F. Bach or J. L. Krebs copied old Johann Sebastian?

You're spewing pure nonsense. Good music is good music. Doesn't matter what style, who wrote it, or when they wrote it.