May 14, 20214 yr Score here: https://albertdelaf.com/op7/ Here's a suite with 5 movements sharing a common thread: playful and “strange” moods, and a style blending late-Romantic, Impressionist, and jazz influences. The first movement is structured as a loose binary form interspersed by a recurring ritornello idea. The second movement employs a single octatonic scale almost throughout (C-Db-Eb-E-F#-G-A-Bb), except during the central climax where notes from outside the scale create an important contrast. The third movement was my first piece for string quartet. It’s a playful polka with a little waltz as a trio. The fourth movement is another waltz, featuring a carefree main theme that alternates with fantasmagoric episodes based on quartal and quintal chords. The final movement is in sonata form, with a coda that draws the whole suite to a frenetic close. Let me know whatcha think! Edited May 15, 20214 yr by Snake_Cake new video with a few tweaks
May 14, 20214 yr Wow! This piece totally blew me away! Very nice job! I personally think your first foray into string quartet writing - the third movement - is the best (or at least my favorite). I am not even well versed enough in string quartet writing to know how to more critically examine this piece! Like for example - what do the arpeggios mean with the triangle notes? (I am not talking about the diamonds which indicate artificial harmonics) I tried looking it up and the only answer I can come up with is that triangles are used to indicate "the highest note possible" on the instrument but I don't think you're using them in that way? The notes sounded pretty distinct to me in the performance rendering. Anyways - great music! Thanks for sharing!
May 15, 20214 yr Author 8 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said: Wow! This piece totally blew me away! Very nice job! I personally think your first foray into string quartet writing - the third movement - is the best (or at least my favorite). I am not even well versed enough in string quartet writing to know how to more critically examine this piece! Like for example - what do the arpeggios mean with the triangle notes? (I am not talking about the diamonds which indicate artificial harmonics) I tried looking it up and the only answer I can come up with is that triangles are used to indicate "the highest note possible" on the instrument but I don't think you're using them in that way? The notes sounded pretty distinct to me in the performance rendering. Anyways - great music! Thanks for sharing! Thanks! The triangular noteheads denote "orientative" pitches. This is done in places where I don't want to be splitting hairs because the exact note won't matter. For example, i use them for the end of a pizzicato glissando (the final note will barely be heard), and I also use them for the harmonic glissandi (where a major chord with a "neutral" 7th will be heard when the player lightly glides their finger up and down along the open string). There's a list of performance notes on the score, but I should've included them on the video too!
May 15, 20214 yr I love your language, in general. Vamos que me encanta que te metas en idiomas contemporáneos, más frescos. Congrats.
May 16, 20214 yr Author 18 hours ago, Luis Hernández said: I love your language, in general. Vamos que me encanta que te metas en idiomas contemporáneos, más frescos. Congrats. Gracias Luis! Ahora, en vez de imitar a compositores de hace 150 años, sólo imito a los de have 80 años 😂
May 21, 20214 yr Really nice work! Your writing for strings feels very natural and conversational in nature, which is very very good for a string quartet. It is really a good effort for a string quartet. I think what you could try to do is to fragment the motif and really give it room to play around. Perhaps you could have included a few jazz references with the nice polyrhythms to add a little kick, but this is just my opinion as a suggestion. It is really splendid at its current form and I can really feel the Latin influences! You could also try perhaps inserting a tresillo rhythm too!
May 31, 20214 yr Author On 5/21/2021 at 12:36 PM, Joshua Ng said: Really nice work! Your writing for strings feels very natural and conversational in nature, which is very very good for a string quartet. It is really a good effort for a string quartet. I think what you could try to do is to fragment the motif and really give it room to play around. Perhaps you could have included a few jazz references with the nice polyrhythms to add a little kick, but this is just my opinion as a suggestion. It is really splendid at its current form and I can really feel the Latin influences! You could also try perhaps inserting a tresillo rhythm too! Thanks! I'll admit there's not a lot of development in most places, I intended it to be a rather light piece. All the weight is in the finale, where there's every transformation imaginable: themes are fragmented, inverted diminuted... you name it. I actually use the tresillo quite a lot, it's some sort of borderline "tic" in my music. In this case I used it mostly in the first movement, even though the finale has some allusions to it. Thank you for listening 🙂
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