FinnegansBrunch

Hey, I thought this was a really good piece; it certainly held my interest throughout. I'm really not that great of a musician, so I can't offer much criticism in that direction, but what I can suggest is a change in the song's name. "Falling Heavens" is nice, sure, but it's no "In Satan's Foyer" or "Royal Pterrordactyl of Doom." Looking foward to your next work, John

1. Mandolin pretty well, guitar, piano and clarinet poorly. 2. Bluegrass instrumentals, folk songs, and pedantic sarabandes. 3. Solos, Duets, and Quintets. 4. Art music. :happy: 5. Everything really, even the theremin.

They're both just experiments or technical exercises. In the first, I was trying to write a simple canon by imitating exactly the melody of a fiddle tune, Ol' Jimmy Sutton, an octave below it. I wanted to see if I could replicate the harmonic sense of the original song while doing this. I also tried to follow what I thought were some of the laws of counterpoint, like avoiding parallel 5ths and 8ths... The second is an ill-conceived and really premature attempt at starting a fugue, using another American folksong, Blackberry Blossom, as the subject. In this doing this, I wanted to get a sense of what constitutes a fugue while continuing to learn some of the basics of composition. I better get over to the lessons forum before I embarass myself any further. Regardless, Thanks and Sveikas, John Also, if anyone knows of any books that might help me, please let me know.

Hey, I'm newcomer both to this forum and to composition. I've been trying for the last two months or so to get a handel on the basics of counterpoint and harmony. The thing is, I'm self-taught mostly through the internet, and not sure if what I believe is correct or if I'm applying what I think I know correctly. These are two fragments I've written. One might be a canon and the other is potentially the exposition and first episode of a fugue. They're probably technical monstrosities, but hell, here they are. Much thanks for the help. suttoncan.MID blackberry.MID