I've Got The Rubato Fermata Time Signature Blues

[stevel]

Originally Posted by TheFiveCount

Hi Steve and all.
I just posted a couple of my compositions here in the Solo/Duo Works area. If you look at the sheet music and listen to the music as performed by me, you can see why I fuss so much with this problem.

Just a note- I only had two weeks of Music Theory in college before being tossed out of the class by the professor. Seems I shouldn't have corrected him in class. See what being young and immature does for you? That was 42 years ago, so I haven't had any formal training. That's why I was so glad to find a forum like this- I need all the help I can get!

Thanks-
Richard

Richard,
The Piano piece was nice, and I think your performance and the notation go hand in hand. Nothing too out of the ordinary there.

With the cello piece - it's often difficult with a slow piece like this - players tend to rush on average, and when a piece is slow, even more so. You have longish stints of "nothing going on" (something's going on of course, but I mean long note values on a solo line) so chances are, each player will be antsy to get to their next part. With something like this, I think you really need to hear someone play it live, and see if they interpret from the score as you do. It looks totally reasonable to me on paper (though you've got a few notation issues here and there) and your performance seems to be within the bound of interpretation of such notation to me. So it's a tougher call. I think anyone would interpret the piano piece very similarly to what you did - after all, it's a pretty common type of style. The cello duet though is not as noticeable any particular style - it has a few commonplace elements (like the sequence meaures, and the ending arpeggiando chords) but other than that, it's more of a "mood" piece in terms of it "unfolding" as you play it. So given that, I think players, not having "standard" elements to use previous experience upon, are somewhat more likely to deviate from your expectations, but given the overall style, I'd say not so much as to annoy you (unless they really sucked).

Best,
Steve

[TheFiveCount]

Originally Posted by stevel

The cello duet though is not as noticeable any particular style - it has a few commonplace elements (like the sequence meaures, and the ending arpeggiando chords) but other than that, it's more of a "mood" piece in terms of it "unfolding" as you play it.

Thanks for the comments Steve. The cello piece is exactly as you personified it- setting a mood and unfolding as it goes along. I would love to have this performed by a couple of cellists. It would aid me greatly in my notation development.

If I can ever get my daughter's video of her documentary on Tag Art, I'll match the video to the cello music so you can see my mind's image of this.

Regards,
Richard