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Baroque Aria for Trumpet, Violin & continuo


Guillem82

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Hi, here my new baroque piece. Any comments are welcome!

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Very nice structure and counterpoint. I think the dynamics in measures 37 etc. with the crescendos and decrescendos may be a little out of the style and could be notated more efficiently. To avoid the redundancy and hassle of writing a crescendo and decrescendo every measure you may want to consider simply notating it once and applying a "sempre simile" to the following measure to imply the shaping and to avoid messy notation. Other than that very solid and clean.

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Hi Guillem82,

Clearly you are very aware of Baroque patterns, as I can see that you are applying some of the more common devices which I believe you are doing by ear. With a little analysis you could dissect what you have done and make it a little more coherent. As an example I have adapted your bars 1-8. Your primary theme is based on a schema we call the romanesca, and you follow this with what appears to be one short prinner, followed by an extended one.

In my adaptation, I have followed your voice leading and bass and tweaked it a bit to sound more authentic, and completed the prinner but with an added converging cadence to offer some contrast. What you have done is impressive, and does not take much to enhance its authenticity. And it also  helps illustrate to what extent music is all about pattern, and humans are good at recognizing them.

KR, Markus

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Hi everybody,

@anthonydaly10, @Luis Hernández, @LayneBruce and @Markus Boyd, thanks for take time to hear my music and giving your feedback.

Your comments are of great value for me. And sorry, a was not able to answer at you before ;)

@LayneBruce you are probably right, crescendos and diminuendos are not often seen in baroque music, I just wanted to give some intensity flow on the dominant pedal passages.

@Markus Boyd: you really did is really nice, you did your own version of my piece and a kind of variation of the main theme. In my opinion, I miss some notes in the first 8 bars, but of course, If you pretend to give more movement on the variation later on it's a very good option start with a very simple texture to have more contrast between original theme and the variation. That's the idea of ostinato bass were you can add some layers on the basic harmony, I like the idea. I also like the idea of bars 13 - 14 with some syncopated notes o "retardos" (I'm not sure if that's the correct term in English) to enrich the harmony.

Markus, thanks for your time. You gave me some good ideas for my future compositions.

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5 minutes ago, Guillem82 said:

@Markus Boyd: you really did is really nice, you did your own version of my piece and a kind of variation of the main theme. In my opinion, I miss some notes in the first 8 bars, but of course, If you pretend to give more movement on the variation later on it's a very good option start with a very simple texture to have more contrast between original theme and the variation. That's the idea of ostinato bass were you can add some layers on the basic harmony, I like the idea. I also like the idea of bars 13 - 14 with some syncopated notes o "retardos" (I'm not sure if that's the correct term in English) to enrich the harmony.

Markus, thanks for your time. You gave me some good ideas for my future compositions.

 

Anytime. Happy to collaborate on something if you like - perhaps that would be good fun!

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