Just wondering what others think about this.
For me, producing a useful score - one that could be submitted to professional directors/orchestras - is hard work. I start on paper in short score; then move it into a daw. By then most if not all the orc
Read more…I finished a couple of chamber pieces recently, this one last month. Having given it a tart-up today, rendered it. It'll probably be part of a 3 movement work if I keep it.
The strings are muted throughout.
Large orchestral scores were giving me a hea
Read more…I've had so much trouble and frustration recently attempting an orchestral piece that I gave up. There comes a point where it gets too much. Last time that happened I gave up composing altogether for several years.
So I turned to writing a solo to cle
Read more…I'm putting together two pieces represeting the mood of the sun in the heat of summer and the moon at a similar time. This is the first one. Probably best described as symbolist / fairly tonal; through composed based on a couple of motifs that recur
Read more…Been reworking some items in the pending tray.
This is a bit modern. Duration 6 minutes. I was thinking of it opening a suite of 3 pieces for mezzo / orchestra. I'm stuck on a slow movement at the mo - and this is a "style" I've been trying to break f
Read more…(The topic title line doesn't allow room to name the piece... never mind).
Recently completed. Doesn’t represent much of a stylistic development for me as it reverts to symbolism, something from which I was hoping to move away.
It’s athematic, arrhythm
Read more…Hi again,
I put up an introductory piece the other day. David commented that I'd chosen something that waen't too accessible to introduce myself.
So here's another piece submitted some years ago on the defunct forum. Not my melody, it's a variation on
Read more…Just a way of introducing myself. On the old forum I was known as Dane - my stage name for a long time - times that fade increasingly into the past so I'll use my "real name" here (which means having my user id changing if that's possible.
This short
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