Etude for Flute

This is a small sonata for the flute.

sonata.MID

First of all, is it a sonata or an etude? If it is a sonata, it lacks any sonata form. A classical sonata uses sonata-allegro form(contains an introduction[opt.], exposition, development, and recapitulation). If it is an etude, what particular technical skill does it provide for practice? Secondly, if it is for the flute, it should be instrumented for the flute, not for piano.

Now to actually comment on the piece: the entire piece lacks a clear melody throughout. Unless you have a clear melody that you could end up humming to, you should add some harmonization; I think this piece will end up being very weak without it. You should also add some dynamics and hairpins, especially when the notes are ascending or descending.

Overall, it's an OK piece, it's nothing interesting. If this is your first piece, then you did well. If not, I suggest you edit and build on to your piece and in no time, you'll be writing a full sonata.

wow, strange flute sound you've got there!

Hi Mark,

Do you mean the midi? The flute is just the ordinary flute...?

Ah, thanks, the midi file was too terrifying to listen to comfortably.

Apologies. Here're the mus files.

c major, largo.MUS

g major, alegro.MUS

sonata.MUS

Uhm, Neno. Have you been taught that the flute is a rather big instrument with black and white keys?

The MIDI sound is correct in the .mus files. But seriously Neno, don't mean to be rude, but go learn music. Those things completely lack form, not to mention they're just extremely short melodies.

Hi.

Thank you everyone for taking the time to comment on my files.

The terrible truth is that I don't have an inkling on why everyone's so unanimous in condemning my work. I don't imply that you're wrong, but I simply don't understand why they have incited almost revulsion from everyone who listens to them....

What I try to avoid most when writing these is incoherence.Otherwise, they obviously have no form, because they were planned to be parts of an eight part sonata or etude, consisting of "long" melodies, as a demonstration of what I can do to myself principally.

But I'm so perplexed that I'm going to stop posting here for a while. If what I see as passably good is as horrible as it is, I need some breathing time and a reevaluation..

Well...lol

Oh, and I have Schoenberg's Fundamentals of Musical Composition...so I do know music, supposedly.

Uhm, Neno. Have you been taught that the flute is a rather big instrument with black and white keys?

I thought this was a partitia lastnight Neno? Can't make up ya mind eh?? :angry:

My personal opinion for this kind of pieces is based on three things:

1- Lack of melody: principally, only a bar is repeated and it doesn't define a concrete melody. The melody is the basis of the piece.

2- The complexity: it is astounding. I can't play it (I think it's because I'm playing it with my old Recorder). I always say: "the simpler, the better".

3- Likings of the composer: if you posted this, is because you liked it and you wanted us to review it. Listen to what you like and don't be scared to post your compositions here. This happens to me a lot, but I always try to compose better and better with each piece I make.

I hope what Jeremiah said leads you to make this better. You can actually see what happened with your Piano composition I reviewed not long ago.

Keep working and never give up!

2- The complexity: it is astounding. I can't play it (I think it's because I'm playing it with my old Recorder). I always say: "the simpler, the better".

The what? :)

For some weird reason Jermiah Hong's comments only appeared two days after the date on them suggests, maybe Mike knows something about that...

I like the second one of these, the g major allegro. Otherwise they're exercises, but I do like the second myself.

Thank you all for the comments. I always appreciate them, mild or harsh.