Soliloquy for Chromatic Harmonica No. 1

This is my first soliloquy for chromatic harmonica. It is intended for performance with a chromatic harmonica with the alternative "classical tuning". It is among my compositions which I have composed during the Israeli genocidal offensive on Lebanon in which they have so far targeted and killed 3,645 people (including 692 women, 231 children, 226 health workers and patients, and at least 6 journalists) and injured 15,356 people (as of November 23, 2024) as well as destroyed much of Lebanon, and flattened or damaged thousands of buildings. 

So that is the background and setting in which I have been composing my latest compositions. However much one tries to keep such events out of one's musical mind and inspiration while composing and to go on composing pure music as though nothing had happened, such events are bound to influence one when the most powerful and most evil destructive force existing on earth, a power unflinchingly bent on the destruction of people, cultures, and civilizations besides its own, has (in the wake of its so far 414-day-old genocide of Gaza and its people) singled out my country to destroy it and its people, destroying thousands of lives and livelihoods, homes, memories, dreams. The question arises, what does music have to do with crimes and events like these? I believe music after all, despite being an art, has a moral purpose. Its composers live in the world and are influenced by the settings and events in their countries. And so composers and music cannot stand completely uninfluenced by the crimes going on around them. And as a composer I believe I have a moral duty to highlight the crimes going on around me, or at least in some way to draw attention to them, to rage against them, to condemn them; if not through my music directly, then through my words! 
 

Hello 

Your reasons and arguments are very valuable.
Regarding the musical aspect, from my point of view, the software is very inefficient to emulate the harmonica sound, which is quite complicated. It sounds more like an accordion. 

On 12/1/2024 at 8:39 PM, Luis Hernández said:

Hello 

Your reasons and arguments are very valuable.
Regarding the musical aspect, from my point of view, the software is very inefficient to emulate the harmonica sound, which is quite complicated. It sounds more like an accordion. 

 

 

Hello Luis,

Thanks for standing with the truth and understanding and recognizing the injustice and
crimes that we have for the past 72 days been subjected to.

Regarding the software sound, indeed it might be sounding more like an accordion.
However, I tried two options and the other one sounded even more like an accordion.
This is Musescore's "Musescore_General.sf3" soundfont. If you are aware of another
soundfont that can be used with Musescore that sounds better, let me know!

On 12/1/2024 at 8:39 PM, Luis Hernández said:

"...the software is very inefficient to emulate the harmonica sound, which is quite complicated. It sounds more like an accordion."

 

I searched for other soundfonts. I think this one, called  "harmonica basic" (by TheSoundfontMaker) is much less like an accordion and more like a harmonica. Listen to it and let me know.