Witching Sun – Mystery Music akin to older film soundtracks

Hi all! Another piece, this one of the darker and slower variety exploring harmonies of the diminished scale. I’d be thankful for any feedback.

Hello again @MantisToboggan!

Quite angular melodically, this is very unnerving with those diminished scales and b2's.  Despite that, I still perceive the key center to be F# which keeps the piece accessible despite it's dissonant features.  The orchestration is also not very thick which further simplifies the texture (you might or might not want to explore thicker textures sometimes to change things up).  Another way to explore different textures is to delve more into extreme ranges of the ensemble.  I don't really hear any Contrabasses in this.  They could add a lot of body and depth to the ensemble.  Violins can also easily go much higher.  Everything in the ensemble is kind of in the mid-range and closely spaced.  Your music could be so much more differentiated and exciting and interesting If you explore more of the capabilities of the instruments!  There are however some nice moments for the solo Oboe and solo Clarinet which was nice.  The way you have the Flute doubling with the Violins in sort of a low tessitura is a bit unrealistic orchestrationally speaking.  The flute won't be heard at all as in that range the flute isn't very loud.  Thanks for sharing!

On 12/16/2024 at 8:52 AM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hello again @MantisToboggan!

Quite angular melodically, this is very unnerving with those diminished scales and b2's.  Despite that, I still perceive the key center to be F# which keeps the piece accessible despite it's dissonant features.  The orchestration is also not very thick which further simplifies the texture (you might or might not want to explore thicker textures sometimes to change things up).  Another way to explore different textures is to delve more into extreme ranges of the ensemble.  I don't really hear any Contrabasses in this.  They could add a lot of body and depth to the ensemble.  Violins can also easily go much higher.  Everything in the ensemble is kind of in the mid-range and closely spaced.  Your music could be so much more differentiated and exciting and interesting If you explore more of the capabilities of the instruments!  There are however some nice moments for the solo Oboe and solo Clarinet which was nice.  The way you have the Flute doubling with the Violins in sort of a low tessitura is a bit unrealistic orchestrationally speaking.  The flute won't be heard at all as in that range the flute isn't very loud.  Thanks for sharing!

 

Hi, thanks for your analysis. I think I can take away from what you wrote.