Instead of Christmas (Submission to 2025 Christmas Event)

3 hours ago, Luis Hernández said:

 

 

That’s delicate, precious and beautiful. 

I think if you put that in Suno and add some girl singing and tinker with it, it would be super awesome

Thank you, I'm glad you like it. To be honest, I have no idea how Suno works. But in that case, the basis of this piece, which is the tintinnabuli, would be broken.

Hi @Luis Hernández!

I love how peaceful this piece is. That bare A I don't know why, reminds me of the Veris leta facies in Carmina Burana:

Thx for sharing!

Henry

17 hours ago, Luis Hernández said:

Thank you, I'm glad you like it. To be honest, I have no idea how Suno works. But in that case, the basis of this piece, which is the tintinnabuli, would be broken.

 

Suno is basically you write lyrics, add instruments you want and the music genre you want then generate a song and see if you like it. If not you can tweak it until you like it and since you already know music, it will be a lot easier for you to create masterpieces.

So I guess tintinnabuli is like a set piece or something and adding something to it or voices or other instruments, would mess it up?

11 minutes ago, SeekJohn14v6 said:

Suno is basically you write lyrics, add instruments you want and the music genre you want then generate a song and see if you like it. If not you can tweak it until you like it and since you already know music, it will be a lot easier for you to create masterpieces.

So I guess tintinnabuli is like a set piece or something and adding something to it or voices or other instruments, would mess it up?

Your replies make me believe more that you may be lobbyist or salesperson of Suno lol... Maybe you never write absolute music yourself...

Tintinnabuli is a technique and compostional style, but I guess if I explain to you I will once again be stigmatized as "elitism" ,so, 😴.

Henry

Tintinnabuli is Árvo Párt.

8 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Your replies make me believe more that you may be lobbyist or salesperson of Suno lol... Maybe you never write absolute music yourself...

Tintinnabuli is a technique and compostional style, but I guess if I explain to you I will once again be stigmatized as "elitism" ,so, 😴.

Henry

 

You are what you are, i wasn’t even talking to you.

The person was wondering how suno works so I explained it to him. I play a little bit of guitar, I only write tab, Lyrics and I use suno.

I didn’t ask you for an explanation. Nor would I want to ask you for anything 🫠 

Looking at the score, I was initially somewhat surprised that a lot of notes had lost their stems. Being sure that this was intentionally and reading a bit about „Tintinnabuli“, I now understand that device of minimalization, even in the notation.

The piece itself exudes a kind of calmness and melancholy which emphasizes the silence and toughtfulness one would feel around Christmas time.

Concerning the „Tintinnabuli“-technique, it is surprising for me how one can create such colorful melodies from mostly stepwise thirds and blend them together with only arpeggiated triads of the main tonic chord, without loss of harmonic functionality and without introducing dissonances (but, haha, I think I’ve discovered a G in bar 18).

Thank you for sharing and a happy New Year 2026!

Beautiful, sad, very Tchaikovsky. Music like this makes you feel which is not easy to do. Cool technique too.