Symphony 2nd Movement (In Progress)

In progress. Form wasn't a big priority when I was writing - The main theme was. It is briefly stated in the first movement and I wanted to expand on it.

Check out the first movement here: 

A lovely languid movement that floats by lazily.  I do have some ambivalence ... on one hand the repeated motif moves about nicely ... at times it felt a bit repetitive ... however, by the end it did feel right.  Nicely done ...

Mark

Good dynamics & good choice of when and where instruments act make the tutti and quasi-tutti sections much, much more fulfilling to me. You sure know how to deal with contrasts and handle timbre differences. I suspect from a first listening that this has been very carefully composed.

It feels like a huge effort of "refinement" has been made, and this comes clearer to me the more I listen to it. And of course, as it happens with good pieces of art overall, the more I interact with it the more deeper I enter into its language and focus into details like the pizz. after the first phrase or the proclamation of the first motive by different sections of the orchestra.

Congratulations. I will go to listen to the first movement too. This symphony seems very promising.

Kind regards!!

 

On 7/23/2022 at 2:08 PM, MJFOBOE said:

A lovely languid movement that floats by lazily.  I do have some ambivalence ... on one hand the repeated motif moves about nicely ... at times it felt a bit repetitive ... however, by the end it did feel right.  Nicely done ...

Mark

 

Thanks for the reply Mark. I thought about changing some of the rhythms for the main theme, but everything I tried didn't really fit besides a simpler(reduced) rhythm with a quarter note instead of the eighth note:   

Glad you enjoyed it

On 7/24/2022 at 11:33 AM, Omicronrg9 said:

Good dynamics & good choice of when and where instruments act make the tutti and quasi-tutti sections much, much more fulfilling to me. You sure know how to deal with contrasts and handle timbre differences. I suspect from a first listening that this has been very carefully composed.

It feels like a huge effort of "refinement" has been made, and this comes clearer to me the more I listen to it. And of course, as it happens with good pieces of art overall, the more I interact with it the more deeper I enter into its language and focus into details like the pizz. after the first phrase or the proclamation of the first motive by different sections of the orchestra.

Congratulations. I will go to listen to the first movement too. This symphony seems very promising.

Kind regards!!

 

 

 

I am ecstatic to hear that you believe it was very carefully composed! It was! I had the ideas mapped out from the beginning, but really tried working with how it sounds. 

I'm delighted by your response. Thank you!