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This was titled "sleep music" in my orchestral folder - soothing after some of the abrasive stuff I worked on late last year. It's tonal, somnolent, much of it in half-light. Rendered on 25th April. It emerged with a couple of other pieces for strings (all muted except the solos) and small orchestra. I'm wondering if it holds together enough to be worth doing some final work on it. If you can please give it a listen, many thanks indeed, and any comments good or bad would be really appreciated. I had hopes for it but it might be just too boring and put people off to sleep. Bests, Quinn.

Sntax (prnounced syntax) is a piece for 7+ trombones by Brandon Schwab. This work is a collection of 3 distinct movements for an advanced trombone ensemble. These pieces are each modeled after a specific punctuation mark. Movement one is set to represent the feeling of excitement, jubilation, and significance; evoking the exclamation point. It is bright, and fast, with fanfare elements that break through to a serene, but turbulent section that kick starts the dash to the end. The second movement is a slow, delicate, and unsettling passage, much like a question mark, with ambiguous rhythmic and tonal centers that disintegrate as fast as they coalesce. Lastly, the third and final movement is to represent the period. A punctual, loud, and harmonically exploratory ballad that takes us to the end of the piece.

Thank you for your compliments. Happy you could feel the joy I meant it to be. I could look if/when other meters are needed. Have you heard of 'fuzzy logic'? It determines input somewhere between 'completely true' and 'completely false', between 0 and 1. I like the idea since we humans see often so dimly, so vague, so imperfect. If art is a testimony of life it sure should express this fuzzy side of life too. We like so much to have complete clarity and for sure nothing is wrong with clarity. But our clarity is surrounded by uncertainty. Anyway I should stop here, I'm no internet guru today. But I guess if there is meaning to such piece, besides the fun of writing (primarely that), this is the point. Thanks for your comment! 🙂

Pleasant little piece. A bit out of my musical range bordering on the Haydnesque or somewhere between the Elizabethan era and Haydn. Were this the turn of the 20th Century it would be the music I'd expect to hear on the lawn of a summer evening at a posh soirée - but it would equally do at a wedding reception where something more sophisticated than pop has been requested! Easy to listen to. And I'm glad to think here are other composers who prefer to work drunk! .

I think your name is quite appropriate given how rhythmically messy this piece is! LoL I don't even know how you managed to write it from beginning to end in 4/4 and still have it line up kind of. In the beginning, just from listening it sounds more like it's in 6/8 rather than 4/4 and there are parts of it that are in 5/8 (m. 14 and when that recurs but it happens twice so it lines up that way). It's a fun and ambiguous piece though with lots of cross-relations. It does sound improvisatory. Fun piece though! Thanks for sharing.