New compositions

[michael renardy]

I am posting sound clips of three recent compositions of mine: Dreamy Night, Quintessential Dance, and Spring Flowers.

[MaestroX]

Your dreamy night fits the title quite well. Any particular attempt at writing in a style? It reminds me a bit of the music of Nobuo Uematsu. The only thing I point out would be your progressions, they seem very weak. Perhaps rearranging some of the parts would add more fluency to the piece?

On your next piece the same problem I had with your earlier piece arose again. A tip (unless you are intending this), when creating more fluid progessions try not to keep visiting the same chord or chords with very similar tones. Such as this progression:

I,V,I,viib,I,iii

The problem arises in the similarity between V,viib, and chord iii. They all share two common tones which sound undesirable when followed closely by each other. I hope this has helped you out and are not offened by me saying this

Spring Flowers was by far your best piece in my opinion. You have lots of variety and the piece seemed more formed and flowed well, though short.

Hope this has helped you out , also BTW have you been taught composition or are you self taught? Interesting to know...

[reith]

I liked all these pieces - they have a light simplicity that makes for easy listening - could be incidental music to movie clips.

The first one was indeed dreamy. I'd be inclined to agree with Maestrox that more variety in the harmony is suggested but then, in this sort-of modal setting it worked well and once more could easily accompany a movie sequence about dreaming. I liked the ending.

The dance came across quite contrapuntal and olde worlde in a way specially with the syncopations. The ending was abrupt but I think you inded that! Nicely worked.

My favourite was the 3rd.

More variation in the dynamics might enhance them, even if on the basis of a quiet then louder section (particularly 1 & 2).

Thanks for the listen. Nice.


reith.

[michael renardy]

I agree the ending for the dance sounds abrupt in the clip. I would like more of a ritardando there. The funny thing is, Finale Allegro plays the ritardando when I play back in Finale, but it somehow suppresses it when I save to a sound file. Dunno why that is.

[PeterG]

Hi Michael,

Lovely tunes you posted. To quote Boneman here; these pieces are best played with a harpischord I think. What if you post the finale-mus file I can let GPO play it on a harpischord for you and send you the results if you wish..

The dance I had some troubles with the rhytmic varioation that appear every now and then. Perhaps I'm old fashioned but when I imagine myself dancing on it those will take me off balance. The melodies may very well do things like that but then you need the bass or rhythms (chords) to "pound on" on the base rhythm so that the danceer does not loose the constant flow. I hope I make sense here...

For the others I tend to agree with MaestroX even though I had to look up what he was telling you on the chord progression first ;-)

All 'n all nice listening, thanks.

Peter