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I have become interested in the fugues and preludes by Shostakovich. Does anybody know where I could get ahold of those? Maybe we should disect one of Bach's Fugues and compare it to Shostakovich's and find what different principals each worked with, in other words what are the similarities and differences?

I don't think you should be criticizing Inv. Artist= what? Mathematics can be an art. Art is about passion and craft.

Some have added ambient wind flutterings. :D I use to wonder the same with most Romantic compositions. The composer who wrote for ballet, I believe his name to be mingkus, or something other, that...... is..... chords and melody.

I heard the piece live, and that was the first time of me hearing it, nothing can replace that:( (Mahler 6th)

When does the work have to be done by? I'd like to hear the works previous, before I can make a proper judjment. Tearing into the center may work, ha ha, be careful! Advice would be do what beehtoven would have done and go to a tottaly different key, give the same material, just different. Or compose a whole new movement that fits in better. It reminded me of Beehtoven's 5th symphony 2nd movement just annex all the outbursts and quirks that beehtoven would have done.

My skin is olive. Because I have italian in me baby! You can delete this if you want........ I voted for how it is now, why change a good thing?

It is about shaping the tones, orchestration, what is it going to do next? A person could be given a sequence, which could have been from mozart lets say, the strength and skill of the composer to wield that sequence is what counts. Obviously the better composer will show, if your working with a Schoenberg sequence or a Mozart Melody, they pretty much are the same thing.... :D .....with slightly altered theories. Schoenberg was asking the question, why are these the tones that you chose? Basically, in music we have built a system, and to deny Schoenberg's or anybody else's as being better is futile. Like I have said before, we are putting 18th century ideals into 21st times. If the music was purely mathetmatical then a computer would do it, and we wouldn't have composers today that slave away.

Do you enjoy Rage over the Lost penny???? I MUST KNOW! sorry for this being a bit of a bad review.

That is a tricky one liner ;) Maybe we should open up another thread on the that quote? or discuss it in Xenakis? or discuss it in John Cage? ANYTHING FOR ORGANIZATION!

I do not know anything about Xenakis, does he shape his music? While tones are important, Schoenberg made a system where he did not have to rely on tonality but merely the way he shaped his pieces, his form is what is more key, the way he shapes the notes he is given. Did Xenakis do as Schoenberg? Cage, while his prepared piano pieces do have form, I question some of his electronic pieces having it. Though Cage was trying to make a point, and basically living his life to the fullest within it.

Very nice works, Jen at first I was fooled by the sound of the strings, but soon realized that it was most definitely giga studio/EWQL or any other program affiliated with that, mainly because live instruments wouldn't have that type of sound that "took over" In the spanish song did you get you get alot of inspiration from mendehlsshon? Bruch? ha ha........ I really love your melodies, you craft them with such great VIVACE! Only complaint would be that repetitious background, but the melodies were SO amazing that I didn't really care. It was hard to make an opinion on the war, mainly because I see where the other two are getting at, but the brass chords aren't as great as the strings so the expression of the brass was LACKING, ha ha..... Giga can't do it all! You like anime? wanna teach me some stuff, I'd love to see the scores to Walk on a shiny day, or spirit of the Flamenco. to study your melodies, oF COURSE!

Nicely said.

When talking about range, you better be talk'n about a keyboard. FElla!

Has anybody read the article? :( http://www.newalbion.com/artists/cagej/autobiog.html Music is different, infinite maybe. John's music is post-modern. I think you guys are putting 18th century ideals into 21st century times. Of course that isn't going to work, John wanted a different route in music. Hodge podge!

I have only listened to the Gigue, and it is pretty good. A performance is required to make the ideas more concrete. It may come off as random, but finale doesn't give enough oomf to the places that need it and which balances it from the light and the heavy. Though at the end going to the pp!, wasn't expecting that:)