April 3Apr 3 The creature is a made up beast that lives in the vast cold forests of central Siberia and throughout the Altai mountains. The composition is a narrative between the myth being told word of mouth through its environment and by first person encounter.Байыркы .mp3 Байыркы .pdf Edited April 4Apr 4 by Fruit hunter PDF error fixed!!
21 hours ago21 hr Author I’m looking for feedback, Harmony orchestration interpretation, especially those three things like the more in depth deep dive stuff if you want to go ahead and do a whole entire score analysis
15 hours ago15 hr Hi @Fruit hunter !I think the introduction does a good job of creating a mood/vibe and sets the expectation for the rest of the piece. The introduction is static in harmony but active in melody. Then you seem to develop the piece with a wide array of percussion instruments that create a cinematic portrait of "the creature". There are short motifs that recur throughout the piece in the harp and pitched percussion instruments and even woodblocks which is cool. Then, before the 4-minute mark you start a sort of simple chorale that's very affecting. This calm and tranquil lull quickly builds into a sustained intensity that is very powerful! The harp motif from the beginning returns near the latter half of the piece before a percussion frenzy and foreboding strings. The intensity rises perhaps to its highest pitch before the 10-minute mark. The hurried ending seems contrived, and I think a soft fade out could have been a more artistic choice. The piece overall seems to start in F# minor and end in B minor so I can't say that it didn't modulate or take the listener anywhere harmonically, but it seems to have done the minimum amount of adventuring through different keys that it could while sustaining the moods it was trying to convey - that's my only critique though without looking at the score. Thanks for sharing!
14 hours ago14 hr That's quite some percussion section, wow!Are you perhaps using the Berlin Percussion library to get all those sounds?There's quite a few instruments I've never heard of before. Will have to look them up...
7 hours ago7 hr Author 7 hours ago, Alex Weidmann said:That's quite some percussion section, wow!Are you perhaps using the Berlin Percussion library to get all those sounds?There's quite a few instruments I've never heard of before.Will have to look them up...I used VDL. or virual drumline
1 hour ago1 hr Looks very good from a brief glance, and I will listen later. I have one piano piece with a Cyrillic, Ukrainian title, Dlya Kyrila, Для Кирила, but Kyrylo, though very intelligent, turned out to be a scammer, but he only wanted $900. I was in no danger; I just can't put my hands on that much ready cash anyway! Got a piano piece out of the "affair," and it is hardly my best.I have never been able to figure out how to format percussion on Noteflight, but I don't write much orchestral! Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by Churchcantor
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