Christmas in Austin

A sentimental piece capturing Christmas time in my home city of Austin. Austin is well known for its music seen, nicknamed the Live Music Capital of The World. Austin is most known for it's heavy blues seen, which I attempted to incorporate into my piece through the use of blues scales and a drumset part in the percussion. 

Right now it is pretty short, might develop more material later.

Thanks

Hey! I like the sonorities you have in this one. 

As you said you will probably add more stuff to it later I wont give you much feedback, but I think you could better blend the tiny sections together. 

Perhaps you want strong breaks between the ideas, but I feel this piece could benefit from being a bit more conicise.

On 12/15/2019 at 12:52 PM, Jean Szulc said:

, but I think you could better blend the tiny sections together. 

I think this is what I mainly heard as well. The final section was super interesting especially in the contrasts to the performance tempo direction at the beginning of it. Filling in more orchestraional parts with elaborations on that trumpet motif would be great; what developments are possible to make those not seem like outliers?

On 12/17/2019 at 10:14 PM, Monarcheon said:

what developments are possible to make those not seem like outliers?

Haha exactly what I’m trying to figure out, I think if do a consonance to dissonance progression into the 2nd half it will blend better. I don’t know of any textbook ways to go from tonal music into like contemporary blues, etc. Maybe just a guessing game until I find something that I think works.

The best way that I think would work for the consonance to dissonant progression is to remove the consonance all together. If this were something I was working on, I'd most likely take the relevant blues scale and use that as the entire basis for the work. Then, you can use chromaticism in the beginning to aide in that transition.