Mini concerto in galant style

I use here my "knowledge" about schemata and other resources I am learning (musical rhetorics).

This is not a baroque o or exactly galant style. It's music inspired in it and using its stuff.

The first part is a Fanfare in format AABBA (binary).

The second takes the form of a ritornello.

There's no third part, I don't want to write it. 

Wow what a great development you have. From solo pieces to chamber and now orchestral pieces using schemata! I cannot name the schemata but only enjoy your usage of them! I love the adagietto! Your orchestral writing is very good! You really show how to write beautifully and the same time it's didactic! That's really hard to achieve but you did it!

Just wanna ask why it's called concerto, since there are no solo instruments here.

Thanks for sharing! I enjoy your works as always.

Henry

47 minutes ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

 

Just wanna ask why it's called concerto, since there are no solo instruments here.

 

Henry

 

You're right. It's not a concerto.

At first, I wanted to write a suite for orchestra. In fact, the Fanfare has the form and rhythm of the Allemande. But I thought it was fair to call it Fanfare. So I changed my mind and planned a three movement standard piece. The third mov. was sketched, but while I was finishing the second part, yesterday, I received very bad news (my coworker, a young person, died suddenly. We don't know exactly why and how). And I didn't want to write a third quick movement. 

This is very delightful. I love the simplicity of it -very fitting of the style. Did you study some of the techniques from the Mannheim school? I know some of that eventually propelled the rise of classicism. 

14 minutes ago, Luis Hernández said:

The third mov. was sketched, but while I was finishing the second part, yesterday, I received very bad news (my coworker, a young person, died suddenly. We don't know exactly why and how). And I didn't want to write a third quick movement. 

I am sorry to hear about this. Maybe you can work on the third movement as a hommage or memorial to him/her, like Ravel's Le Tombeau De Couperin. Hope you pass through this and get well soon by writing to her/him.

Henry

3 minutes ago, jawoodruff said:

This is very delightful. I love the simplicity of it -very fitting of the style. Did you study some of the techniques from the Mannheim school? I know some of that eventually propelled the rise of classicism. 

 

I have not reached that point yet.

Some months ago, I started studying music from the beginning. Plain chant (gregorian and others), techniques that came after it, forms... that all led to counterpoint (modal first), and the baroque era.

There are many many ancient techniques that we have in our background and have no idea where they come from. It's quite interesting and useful.

Some day I could talk about some of those techniques and devices, for example the isorhythmic composition and the concepts of "color and talea".

Nothing much to add here apart from congratulating you for another very nicely crafted work. I really like the main idea of the fanfare, it's very enjoyable, and despite I also liked the Adagietto a lot, the first movement won me this time.

On 1/14/2023 at 12:45 PM, Luis Hernández said:

There are many many ancient techniques that we have in our background and have no idea where they come from. It's quite interesting and useful.

Each time you write this I get more and more convinced. Once I finish with my academic duties this year I will remind this words and probably start to do what you have been doing for quite some time now.

Again, reading the score with your indications was as enjoyable as listening to it. This approach is something I don't see often in Youtube and I believe it's very practical, thus, you should really have more subscribers in my opinion. Shoutout to all YC users here who use YT to subscribe to Luis' channel!

I am sorry for the recent bad news.

Kind regards,
Daniel–Ømicrón.

2 hours ago, Omicronrg9 said:

 

 

Each time you write this I get more and more convinced. Once I finish with my academic duties this year I will remind this words and probably start to do what you have been doing for quite some time now.

Again, reading the score with your indications was as enjoyable as listening to it. This approach is something I don't see often in Youtube and I believe it's very practical, thus, you should really have more subscribers in my opinion. Shoutout to all YC users here who use YT to subscribe to Luis' channel!
 

Kind regards,
Daniel–Ømicrón.

 

Yes, I encourage to take a look to those "old" techniques.

My YT channel is an auxiliary tool, in fact. I upload the scores and the music but the explanations are in my blog. Unfortunately, the blog is very big now and impossible to translate everything into English.

I'm working on a new project. It is about rhetoric figures in music. They were so importante in the baroque era and later. I am writing short examples examples for these figures to make my own catalog. I am thinking how to publish it (in the same blog perhaps).

20 minutes ago, Luis Hernández said:

Unfortunately, the blog is very big now and impossible to translate everything into English.

Really sad it's only in Spanish, since your content is excellent. Lucky Daniel... Will it be a selfish suggestion to have your recent posts translated to English though?🤨 Although it will be perfectly fine to watch videos alone!

22 minutes ago, Luis Hernández said:

I'm working on a new project. It is about rhetoric figures in music. They were so importante in the baroque era and later. I am writing short examples examples for these figures to make my own catalog. I am thinking how to publish it (in the same blog perhaps).

Look forward to it! Maybe you can start with this one to have English translation, haha!!

Henry

1 hour ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Really sad it's only in Spanish, since your content is excellent. Lucky Daniel... Will it be a selfish suggestion to have your recent posts translated to English though?🤨 Although it will be perfectly fine to watch videos alone!

Look forward to it! Maybe you can start with this one to have English translation, haha!!

Henry

 

Yes, this new project will be easy to do it in both languages. I'll post an example later of what I'm trying to do.

Luis

You're becoming one of my favorite composers here. I know I've said this before to you, but I absolutely love how you've gone back in time to truly grasp music in all of it's eras. It reminds me of being in music school, where everything we learned we applied to a composition once a week. Just reading about these techniques isn't good enough, but your application really demonstrates how well your advancing in your studies. It's a testament to all of us to be encouraged in following your lead; we should all at some point venture forth in your footsteps and try this for ourselves. 

The music itself is lovely, I really don't have much criticism, if any at all. Your score is immaculate and the notes themselves seemed to be placed with extraordinary care. Well done, Luis, I love your recent output!

Very beautiful, I particularly enjoy the opening of the Adagietto. Some harmonic tensions are very powerful, and many solutions sound so good. Wish I had more in depth comments to make!