Prelude for orchestra

Hi everyone,

I composed this piece as part of my bachelor in music.

I hope you enjoy it. Leave a like or a feedback if you want! 😊

SU-PAR

Let me be one of the 1st to congratulate you on a MOVIE-SOUND compostion...............Well done Johnathan.

"Bachelor in music"................. My God , you must be extremely Intelligent........that's something i could never achieve.

Hello @Jonathanm!

Welcome to the forum!

I really really love your modulation in b.8, so beautiful!!! I love b.9-15 too, and also the A section itself, however I think the transition from the serene passage before it can be longer and more well-prepared. Again I love your modulation to Ab major in 1:53! I love your transition to section D, very well done, and the bass clarinet is greatly used there! I love your cor anglais in section E too, and also when the flute join and after that the strings!! 

The all strings passage after feel so warm to me. B.90 passage is wonderful with the harp and the texture is very rich. The cello melody plus flute countermelody in section H sounds fascinating as well, and I absolutely love the b.133 passage after it! The climax to J section is really well prepared here! And a lovely peaceful ending!

Your ochestral and harmonic colour is really really well done, congrats on that!! I really love how you allocate melodies to different instruments for their own timbre. Maybe for me the only shortcoming would be the coherence, since I feel like the whole piece is beautiful but the ideas are all new in each section for me. Nonetheless, this piece is very well done and enjoyable, congrats on that!

Henry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Music

"FAILING 2 PLAN...is PLANNING 2 FAIL"

So Johnathan, where do you go from here ? , have you any future goals,dreams,ambitions ?

Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years time ?

Executive producers/Film&TV Directors/ Script-Consultants, within the Industry are always looking for

Music-Degree-Qualified composers,that Bring Immence value to there Cinematic Film productions.

If you play your cards right, Your "Bachelor of Music" Academic-Degree, could lead you to a Very Lucrative Future.

Either way i wish you Luck.........................

@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu

Thank you very much for your nice comment! I understand why many parts feel all new from a listener perspective and that is something I have to work on. From my perspective they are not and I can provide a very short analyse.

The introduction motive at bar 1 with the strings is the same that start the first cellos solo which is then reused in the fanfare theme. It is reused in some other places but sometime transformed a little bit. At B you have the main theme that you can hear until the clarinet solo. The idea of the introduction is repeated in the begining of G, which then lead to a longer lyrical section at H, which is reminescent of the first cello solo of the piece, altough pretty different I concede! Then this lead to another fanfare section where the brass reuse the same motive from the initial fanfare and the strings have a mix of this motive and the main theme. This lead to the real return of the main theme at J, which is pretty similar to B. For the rest of the piece you can hear these two motives almost everywhere but again it is not striking I concede.

F section, as well as the bass clarinet solo, are based on the melodic material from the transition b.38-43. (Sorry for this long message I hope you were not too bored by this analyse... 😅)!

Thanks again and have a great day

Jonathan

@FILMSCORE

Thank you very much for your messages!

I am teaching piano at the moment, but I have to be honnest... right now I'm not sure where composition is going to lead me. 

I don't think I want to work in the film industry but never say never!

Have a great day

Jonathan

17 minutes ago, Jonathanm said:

never say never!

U-NEVA-NO

Hi @Jonathanm!

I relisten the whole piece according to yout analysis. Now following your analysis the motives are quite apparent, sorry for my carelessness haha!

Probably if you can leave the score here the thematic coherence can be more easily spotted on, as the image in the YT video is a bit blurred haha! Or you can provide the analysis under your video as well, it isn't boring at all, in the contrary it helps us to get more deeply into the music!

Btw I want to ask, do you use Musescore 4 here for the audio?

Feel free to review othet members' works here as well! Thx for sharing and joining us!

Henry

@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu

No problem I don't think it is careless at all haha!

Yes I'm using Musescore 4! Might try some of the librairies they added on musehub in the future but for this project I sticked to the regular musesounds.