Jump to content

Search the Community

Showing results for tags 'to be or not to be'.

  • Search By Tags

    Type tags separated by commas.

  • Search By Author

Content Type


Forums

  • Board
    • Announcements and Technical Problems
  • Upload Your Compositions for Analysis or Feedback
    • Works with Few Reviews
    • Opt-In Works for Youtube
    • Orchestral and Large Ensemble
    • Chamber Music
    • Choral, Vocal
    • Piano Music, Solo Keyboard
    • Incidental Music and Soundtracks
    • Jazz, Band, Pop, Rock
    • Electronic
    • Incomplete Works; Writer's Block and Suggestions
  • Community
    • Masterclasses
    • Music Appreciation: Suggest Works or Articles
    • Composers' Headquarters
    • Repertoire
    • Performance
    • Advice and Techniques
  • Competitions and Collaboration
    • Competition Hall of Fame
    • Monthly Competitions
    • Collaborative Works
    • Challenges
    • External Competitions
  • Technological
    • Music Jotter
    • Music Notation Software Help and Discussion
    • Sound Libraries
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Introduction
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Ritual of Abduction
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Spring Rounds
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Ritual of the Rival Tribes
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Procession of the Oldest and Wisest One
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: The Dancing Out of the Earth
  • Rite of Spring analysis Club's Part 1: Augurs of Spring
  • Play this Passage's WHO PLAYS WHICH INSTRUMENT(S)
  • Play this Passage's HOW IT WORKS
  • Music and Media's Discuss and Collaborate on a Project
  • Young Composers Preludes and Fugues Project's Rules and Guidelines
  • Young Composers Preludes and Fugues Project's Submit a piece

Find results in...

Find results that contain...


Date Created

  • Start

    End

Last Updated

  • Start

    End

Filter by number of...

Joined

  • Start

    End

Group

MSN

Skype

Jabber

Yahoo

ICQ

Website URL

AIM

Biography

Location

Occupation

Interests

Favorite Composers

My Compositional Styles

Notation Software/Sequencers

Instruments Played

Found 1 result

  1. luderart
    This piece of mine - Soliloquy for Violin No. 28: A Personal Reflection on Shakespeare's "To Be or Not to Be" Question (Hamlet) ('Mi'* Be; Do Be; 'Mi' Be) - was inspired in response to the competition on the theme of Shakespeare that is currently being held in this website. However, it falls short of one of the criteria of the the competition in being less than five minutes long. I consider it to be one of my good pieces and so wanted to still share it. I hope you enjoy it. As for the extra-musical associations of the piece, I have already explained in the score via asterisks which I reproduce below: Mi ('մի') means "Don't" in Armenian. Therefore the beginning 3 measures "E B C B E B" translate to "Mi B Do B Mi B" and then to "Don't Be; Do Be; Don't Be", like an obsessive question haunting its victim. Regarding the last two notes of the piece, B & E, these last two notes end the piece, after four bars asserting "Do B(e)" again and again, by the note-word combination "Be Me", thus giving us a reason to choose to be, the notes at the same time spelling/commanding "BE"! I have tried as much as I can not to let the extramusical associations effect the quality of the music, even thought the music itself arises largely from them! To be sure, the music, in translating notes into words and words into notes, etc, might be taking the "To be or not to be" question a little to literally, but I hope that the music itself also gives some sense of the issues that the question deals with. It is for you to decide how far it has succeeded. I look forward to your feedback.
×
×
  • Create New...