oboehazzard

I've actually never really figured out how you get something recorded. You've had something recorded. What do you do?

Macbeth, Don Juan, Death and Transfiguration, the Cello Sonata, Don Quixote.

Wow! I really wasn't that pleased with this, but it seems like it's something people would like. I guess I'll have to try it out with a choir.

Thanks everyone for your comments! The last two days are the busiest in my week, so tomorrow I am going to look at what you had to say in depth and see if I am going to make some changes! I'm not a string player. I'm an oboist. ;)

Wow! This is really great! Everything sounds better on a recording!

I actually went over the 16 measures and it came out to be 18 measures. I led up to the high point, and then released the tension and ended it pianissimo like the beginning, so it comes full-circle. Melody.MUS

So about a year ago, I wrote this suite for flute and string orchestra after reading "La Mort d'Arthur" in English class. The suite originally had three movements, but the third was lost in an unfortunate viral plague. The first movement depicts the battle that Arthur fights before his death, the second depicts his death. The titles are reversed. The faster movement depicts the battle, whilst the slower one depicts the death. ii.MID ii.MUS mort.MID mort.MUS

What was originally going to be a song for soprano and piano, turned out to be a piece for piano and oboe. What inspired the piece was the Edgar Allen Poe poem, "A Dream." I used some dissonances that were meant to evoke the unsureness of our dreams, and the sort of void that we have to cross in our minds to interperet them. Here is the poem: In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream - that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star? A dream.MID a REAL dreahb.MUS

This is a setting of Psalm 23 for a three part women's chorus. I wrote it in hopes of fitting it into my Requiem, but I never developed the themes of this into the Requiem, and it just didn't fit, so I decided to change it up and arrange it as a stand alone work. the lord is my shepherd.MUS lord is my shepherd.MID

Do the rules of exercise 3 apply to this as well? Also, is there any way you could post an excerpt of the theme? A Finale File, or an IMG file?

This is a great start to composing. I'm assuming you aren't that new to music, since this shows some understanding of theory. I don't think that the harpsichord solo at the end in the harmonic minor really fit, and kind of disrupted the flow. But other than that, you show a really good understanding of music for only composing three months. Stick around, you will learn a lot.

I think that's what Tom

Pruned? I didn't even notice that this was so old. I was interested by Golden Mellow and wanted to hear more of your work.

Mahlon, you have a musical vibrator?! :happy:

Missed those. Woops. :happy: Exercise no. 3 - 2.MUS