One Last Classical Piece Before...

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I love to write classical music but everyone that I seem to know wants me to put a purely steelstring acoustic CD out before anything else. So I'll be concentrating solely on acoustic stuff for some time now.

...But before I do, I'd like to know what you think about this piece. It's a short tune at 1:53 and has cello, clarinet and oboe soundfonts. Soundfonts because I don't know how to play those instruments and I'm to old to learn now. This song was actually written because a friend at another forum wanted me to try and emulate Mozart. I know I'm not Mozart and I don't profess to be. It's was just a attempt at something a little different than what I'm used to writing.

If you have the time I'd like your honest opinions and your forthrightness on ways to maybe improve on it. Thanks for your time if your willing to listen.

'Nocturne'
 
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very very nice. i like it. even though they were sound fonts i could totally feel the serenity of the song.
the only thing i have to say about the composition/mix is to make the trills faster on the oboe. also, in traditional classical music (at least with woodwind instruments) the trills start with the top note. So if written on the music you have a G and want them to trill up to an A...the musician generally will strike the A first and trill to the G.
let me know if you ever need a clarinet player for this tune or another tune. i'd be glad to play on it. (as long as it isn't too hard ;) )

nice job. good luck with the steel string
 
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Beautiful. I don't care for synth usually but this is expressive, especially the two upper voices. The cello maybe doesn't have enough high overtones in it and is less distinct. I agree with Benny that starting the ornaments on the upper note is the way to go here, as it's a piece in the baroque style and that was generally the custom at the time. Shades of Handel here rather than Mozart, to my ear. Very nice. Any chance of getting a copy of the score?

Tim
 
Thanks for taking the time to listen and the intuitive suggestions. As said, I love to write this style of music but I really don't know much about theory or anything else about classical music in general. I'll try your suggestion of speeding up the trill and starting a note higher.

If I ever do get around to writing more of this style I'll keep you in mind Benny, when I need a clarinet player. :D

As for the score, I have it in Logic right now, so I can print out a score there if you really want one. Knowing you're a classical guitar player the score is in individual staffs ( oboe, clarinet and cello ) and not one. If that's OK. PM me and I'll send it out to you.

Handel, eh. Most of the time people compare most of my stuff with being Bach-ish. Is that better or am I back tracking? :D I have to learn more about classical music. :(
 
Handel, eh. Most of the time people compare most of my stuff with being Bach-ish. Is that better or am I back tracking?
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I've always thought they were equals, just different. Maybe Bach had the edge in complexity sometimes, but they're both in the top 10 of all time I think.

Tim
 
Bach, Handel, Mozart. Ah it's just me. He, he. I've just gotta learn more about classical music I guess. :D

I did put up a new version with the trill the correct way except not speeded up. When I did speed it up it just did'nt sound right to me. May try it to work on it again someday.

Thanks to every one who listened. ;)
 
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Yeah, I noticed the score had the ornaments starting on the upper note. And thanks again for that. As far as the speed of the trills, I'd imagine the most effective sound would be to vary it, generally speeding up a bit towards the end of the trill. But that might be tough to do with MIDI... dunno.

Tim
 
:D You're welcome. Thanks for the interest in the score. Speeding up the trill at the end of it would work. Just changing the bpm in the program should fix that I think. I've done it on a few other pieces and it seemed to work pretty well. Have to try it the next time I work on this piece. Thanks for the tip.
 
yeah i guess i didn't really pinpoint what was up with the trill. it may sound weird 'cause you didn't have the top note, and then the trill sounded too rigid...like you just threw a bunch of 32nd notes at the same velocity in there. so maybe varying the velocity of the notes a bit might help soften it up and sound more realistic

just an idea
i would definitely say more Handel-ish than bach too
 
:D Well, at least I'm sounding a little like someone else than Bach. That's a real achievement for me. Thanks for the tips guys. I'll try them as soon as I get back to this stuff. Now where's that acoustic guitar? Ah.
 
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