Awakening (my first piece posted here)

[frederik]

Hi,
I just joined the forum 'cause it seems a very interesting place to share pieces and get usefull feedback.

So here's my first contribution, it's an orchestral piece in some sort of romantic style. It's far from monothematic, but as you'll hear the slow lyrical line of the oboe you'll hear at the start figures alot throughout the piece, in different forms (and different harmonisations and keys) as some sort of unifier...
All sounds come from the edirol orchestral.

All comments, suggestions and the like are appreciated (but keep in mind I'm only an amateur)!

bye,

frederik

[Aephion]

I like it
I can clearly hear the "awakening" in this piece. It's playful and well detailed ^_^

Feels like birds singing on a beautiful spring morning
Well done, keep going! o.o
I'd like to hear more from you ^_^

~Aephion

PS
Are you Dutch?

[MisterEnt]

I like this, it's very pretty! Flows very nicely. I love the ending too, it's very delicate, a good choice. Keep it up, I'm looking forward to hearing more from you. ^^

[frederik]

Thanks for the kind words, Aephion and MisterEnt!

I'd love to share more works with you, but I'm afraid most of them are not fully developped yet, or need to be improved. I have two orchestral things that have reached some quasi finished state, but both still need some tidying up, and some changes here and there.

But, I have a piano piece which is almost finished (still needs a good coda or end), so probably that will be the first thing I'll post in the future. Be warned though, it's in a totally different style, it's a bit of a Ragtime piece!

@ Aephion: Ik spreek nederlands, maar ben geen Nederlander... rarara... dan moet ik wel één van die gekke onderburen van jullie zijn... een echte Belg dus!
Ik gok dat je die deductie over mijn moedertaal deed op basis van de spelling van mijn naam (In alle andere talen staat er minstens wel één C, en meestal wordt er op forums door engelstaligen ook frederick van gemaakt ;-)

Bye,

frederik

[MJFoster]

Holy Crap this was fun! You made me smile and forget that I was dissecting a piece of music. You are good. Your level of compositional skill, particularly to compose polythematic work, is outstanding.

[Aharon Lavie]

Frederik,

Can you post the score, please?

[frederik]

Hi Aharan Lavie,

I would send you the score straigtaway if I had a score...
You see, this was composed partially at the piano and then straigt into my sequencer (Nuendo). Ofcourse I could post the midifile or turn this into a score, but I'm afraid the result would be rather messy (when working with the sequencer I use a very low level quantization - say 1/64 - to get a bit of naturalness in the timing and articulation, and I let the note tails overlap the start of the next note quite often too, but this results in quite unreadable scores if you don't do some extra editing).

I can edit it in sibelius and thus make a proper score out of it, but I'm afraid at the momen I'm lacking time to do so...

BTW: I'm working on a piano+orchestra piece at the moment, and this time I'm doing it straight into sibelius ;-)

hope you're not to dissapointed...

bye,

[reith]

Yes, a nice, easy-to-listen-to piece.

Originally Posted by frederik

Hi Aharan Lavie,

I would send you the score straigtaway if I had a score...
You see, this was composed partially at the piano and then straigt into my sequencer (Nuendo). Ofcourse I could post the midifile or turn this into a score, but I'm afraid the result would be rather messy (when working with the sequencer I use a very low level quantization - say 1/64 - to get a bit of naturalness in the timing and articulation, and I let the note tails overlap the start of the next note quite often too, but this results in quite unreadable scores if you don't do some extra editing).

That's what I like about sequencers, you CAN reduce the quantisation so you get tenutos done properly and get decent sounding rubatos etc. I tend to to write exactly what I want played so in notation I'm always having to tie, say, a crotchet onto a staccatoed quaver on the next beat and that. Easy when you write by hand - a lot of clicking on notation software - not that I'm an expert (not even a novice) but a friend tries to put my stuff in sib and is always complaining at my writing "style"!

Good piece though, some interesting, engaging harmonies.
Reith.

[frederik]

Thanks for your reply, reith.

I know the problem of "writing down what you want played vs. readable scores". When working in sibelius I often make a readable version and a performing demo... In the later I add a lot of extra grace notes, ties, and work with a great lot of rit. and acc. (just a tiny amount; in sibelius you can choose the amount of rit. and acc. to be performed on playback, standard the rit. for example goes to 75% of the original tempo, but when work with say 96% you can do more subtle performance-like things ;-)

bye,

frederik

[Andy]

Marvelous...

thoroughly enjoyed the piece and the sounds of the orchestra are very good.