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    • Alex Weidmann
      Silly experiment

      By Alex Weidmann · Posted

      Hi to all! Here's another silly experiment I tried with electronic music. I was trying to see if I could write something musical just by copying and pasting into different synth types available on MuseScore.  Think the second half works better than the first; but I'll let you decide.
    • pateceramics
      The Grasses

      By pateceramics · Posted

      Thanks, Henry!  Yes, the beginning is a jazz minor scale (melodic minor ascending used for both the scale up and the scale down) with fourths raised for a bit of extra leading tone (leading tone to the fifth).  And then we flip around a bit between Mixolydian and eventually a nice bright C Major.   One of my bigger challenges with this piece was being sure that Whitman's lovely text would be heard through everything that is going on.  It's a long and wordy text and I knew I wanted to work the "all flesh is as grass" in as well as a second idea.  The text ends up similar in length to the "credo" section of the big masses, so it presents the same problem of how to fit it all in.  I ended up doing a fair amount of homophonic writing in the early parts of the piece to keep the text clear and understandable and using the piano part to keep things lively, as well as having different voices come in and out to add emphasis to certain lines and keep things interesting.  But by the second half, the singer may have a disorientingly fragmented experience, since I was often needing a voice part to switch back and forth from the poem to the biblical text in mid-thought to try and keep the lines from becoming too tangled with each other.  To avoid some overlapping of people singing different texts simultaneously, I chopped the lines into little pieces and stitched them back together as a quilt to get the important words to punch through.  Hopefully it's not too jarring an experience.   The Catholic Church's Council on Trent (1545-1563) apparently specifically condemned this kind of polyphonic tomfoolery, feeling that interfering with the understandability of a text was missing the point of singing as a mode of communication.  But of course, then what the heck do you do about the credo section of your choral mass to keep it from being boring and ten minutes long if you are composing for the church?  
    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
      Violin Sonata in B-flat major, 1st movement: Allegretto grazioso

      By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu · Posted

      Hi Maggie! Yeah I love that rest bringing the lightness of the theme as well, which matches the waltz rhythm and light mood of the movement. Yeah I was just trying to be simple and might me a bit too simple here, but I thought reaching F minor (b.74) in a D major local key setting would be quite enough for a surprise! Yeah I hope I can play this in real life with Arjuna, so I'm definitely writing interactions between parts, otherwise I would be bored as freak! Henry
    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
      Violin Sonata in B-flat major, 1st movement: Allegretto grazioso

      By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu · Posted

      Hello @danishali903, thx for your review! Yeah maybe I can add a little bit more motion there, though originally I just wanna keep it simple for a shocking local tonic D major to modulate to G minor lol! Yeah it will work too, and I use quite some pizzicato in the next 3 movements! Thank you! I'm sure the piano writing is idiomatic because I plan to play with myself haha, so if it's not it would kill me! Henry
    • Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
      Favorite film music tracks ???

      By Henry Ng Tsz Kiu · Posted

      I have just watched Wes Anderson's The Phoenician Scheme today and I find the music really matches the film's eccentric style. The film quotes a lot of Stravinsky's Petrushka and Bach's famous Cantata BWV 147, as well as ending with the Firebird. The original music reminds a lot with Stravinsky as well, tho when the piano joins in it's more like Schonberg in a way with its tone and color, tho the rhythm and mood is still Stravinsky, or even in Riley's minimalism  
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