baarrtek

Thank You! I was very interested myself to see how the piece is going to frame. I planed the soprano voice to interact much more with the tenor but well... It somehow didn't happen. Before I start developing my own style I want to experiment and find something I am very happy with. For few days now I have been experimenting with whole tone scales and I will post some music on that as well. Thank you, I will look into the piece and many do all the things that I planned before going "new" about the piece.

She is indeed a very conservative and strict teacher but also one of the best teachers available in Northern Ireland. I looked over the score again and I can see your point. How do you feel about the length of the actual theme? (I would love a bit more out of it)

I love it! The harmony complexed just they way I like it! Good use of irregular time!

Nice and consistent! I hate repeated patterns and there is always a danger in them but I think it worked well in this piece. Well Done!

I would just like to give you a little tip, clashes both tone and semitone ones sound much more harsh on string (and woodwind) instruments than they do on the piano. When writing atonal music always keep the texture and properties of the instrument which you are writing for in mind.

First of all some bowing marks (slurs) would be great. I was a bit bored with the fact that there was no definitive hint of where the theme was going to go. I was missing some suspension and excitement which would make me go back over the piece again and again. Well done for being very consistent and not putting a load of ideas in but you could have developed what you had a bit more. I really like some of your harmonics but I must also say that I hate some of them. Nice piece! Good work!

I hate the midi voice samples so I played through the score on a piano. I like your harmonics, the consistency throughout the piece (as an organist myself often I have to harmonise and write hymns and sometimes without realising it you move to a new style or texture too quickly; so well done for that) Great piece!

At the start in your score I can see that quavers are beamed across the bars; I did that once and my composition teacher has just threw the score in the bin as she said that something like that is not acceptable. So it might be just me but I do believe that the should not be beamed across the bars. I like your repeated patterns at the start although I could do with a bit more of accents to mark the important noted which carry the theme. When you start your actual theme why did you let it go away so quickly and started the repeated patterns (this may be just my opinion but I think that it would be great if you made more out of it You can do so many things to it; you could augment it, invert it, retrograde it or maybe diminish it. Great piece but as for me it needs more of the theme.

When I heard the start I immediately thought the Great Russian Romanticism I'm afraid that without the score I can't give you much in terms of composition. As an composition student I have forbidden to write in the Romantic style (my teacher said I'm too obsessed with it) Oh Well... If you provide me with the score I could do some analysis and then give you my opinion but as for now it is a piece that made my ears happy.

Hi there isn't much to say from me about the composition except for the fact that this is a nice solid fugue. I have noticed that your recording has a very rich bass sound when the third voice comes in. No pedal is used there, right? What I have noticed on a number of organs that the bass on the manuals on many stops isn't as great (unless you are using a 16' Bourdon in the great; Newry cathedral has that combination) I would make more out of the pedal line to make it a true organ fugue but these are just my suggestions.

For a while I have been looking for a new sound in my composition, I wrote some string quartets, solo piano pieces, woodwinds trios, etc. Then came lent and as an organist for the Polish Masses in the UK I was inspired by the text of the Stabat Mater. I planed out the harmonies etc. (all slight atonality can be explained) and I came up with this. Stabat Mater is a rather strange piece in a style in which I have never wrote before; but sure that was the plan to look for new sounds. Sibelius voices midi files are very bad so I prefer if you take the score play through it yourself ;). I hope that this will get me closer to the new sound which I am still continuing to look for. Stabat Mater (Polish Translation) Stabat Mater (Polish Translation)

There are some tuning and intonation issues (It is very significant in the upper strings section) as well as some articulation. I am missing a pleasant sound; now some parts aren't as bad as others. Overall more practice is needed not in the sense of the notes but sound and tone that is being crafted by every single player from their instrument. Keep it up and keep practicing. :) Good Luck --- Bartosz Thiede

Not a bad piece but I dont understand were did you get bar 46-49 from? next thing is that the theme is repeated so many times that by bar 97 I was bored, again bar 114-154 more variation is needed, theme in 187 intreasting but again repeated too many times and as johnbucket said more developement is needed!

I like it but the only thing I would say that the rythym gets a bit boring by the time we get to bar 18, I think that it is a bit too repetitive.

I like it, I think that I would be right to say that the rythym remainds me of chopin Polonaises and Mazurkas. Pls fix the score and keep up the good work hones: