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Song for Piano and Violin
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Hold on a minute--a divisi does not necessarily make the strings any "weaker": with divisi you are expected to compensate for any "weaknesses" by either playing out more or making it less according to what the conductor tells you the composer wanted…
by the way: there are some Joachim youtubes I ran across a couple of months ago--one is an absolutely amazing Bach Unaccompanied that is just hauntingly beautiful! (Brahms wrote his violin concerto for Joachim, in case you were wondering where that…
How fun--a sort of Coraline meets the Tango! :)
Very nice!
It makes me want to light a candle or some incense and curl up with a cup of tea or glass of wine and meditate.
(and that was BEFORE I read the description!)
well, to answer your question in very inarticulate terms--the piano part sounds more pianistic than the violin part sounds violinistic. not unrealistic, just biased. I like it and think it could be further supported by an extension and switching of…
Shinichi Suzuki began to play/study violin supposedly at the age of 19. Perhaps he never became the best violinist; however, his impact on the world of violin pedagogy has been incredible. (Unfortunately, though, in ways he never intended by those w…
Hi, Very nice to hear your music!
The chords/chordal progressions I really, really liked. It's a very beautiful piece!
Please keep in mind, that you can take any of the following comments or leave them, but here are my impressions:
(I'll start fro…
I'm sorry, but I have to laugh at what I see here to be irony--I learned the sonata form in theory class via Mendelssohn's A Midsummer's Night Dream...couldn't be any more programmatic, highly structured and an example of solid structural framework…
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Choir, Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Songs, Contemporary Ensembles, Other
- Is music your main income source?
- Sort Of - Music Related
- Where do you live?
- St. Louis
Comment Wall (10 comments)
- At 7:03am on October 23, 2009,
Danny De Can said… - Yes, excuse me. I am just back from holidays. Thanks for the nice comment!
- At 8:37am on August 28, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said… - I think you have to copy and past the URLs for You Tube.
- At 7:39pm on August 25, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- Ann,
"American Songs" is now loaded onto my home page. Hope you enjoy it.
- At 7:54pm on August 22, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- The airplane is Illy Mormetz (Russian counterpart to Paul Bunyan),
Francis Poulenc > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_gu-EnOp4M&feature=related ,
Charles Ives > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7FTIVpHvgE&feature=related , Gabriel Faure > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=foCJ6YqkKqE&feature=related <, John Adams > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RAE3fsDz0I&feature=related < > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y3fJ1RODqI ,,
Gustave Holst, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NeQ1h6lzLI&feature=PlayList&p=1BD0664FBF8F 153C&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=24 <<br /> Modest Mussogsky, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4vxQiA8Ghk&feature=related <<br /> Richard Wagner, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Gc0StkBBk&feature=related <<br /> Peter IllychTchiakowsky, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pypUXtDgX0&feature=related <<br /> Rytis Mazulis, None available
Aaron Jay Kernis, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-NLXSbq_aE&feature=related <
Ludwig Spohr, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYdeNN8t71o&feature=related <<br /> Alban Berg, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRVBjIC0Xh4&feature=related <<br /> Jules Massenet > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfnAgDqc8qM <,
Richard Strauss, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=duCLxR6tIIw&feature=related <<br /> Steve Reich > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU23LqQ6LY4 ,
Puccini, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RdJmqLrsbo&feature=related <<br /> Mr and Mrs Antonin Dvorak, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2pS1AOG240&feature=PlayList&p=47DFC7373FCCF1BB&index=0 <
Verdi > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79tAD1UZ7m0 <<br /> Saint Seans > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d0itDEs9uo <<br /> Vaughn Williams > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jre7Q4AnsP4&feature=related <<br /> Monteverdi > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yGDSXpMJ < > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z-hq8l2LM8 <<br /> Delasso Visual Only
Orlando Delasso > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUSeiOaTnsQ&feature=related <<br /> Larry Bird, Visual Only
William Byrd, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30UfjAucDsA <<br /> John Dowland, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXfHhLebVE <<br /> Boyd Dowler, Visual only
Paul Von Hindenberg, Visual Only
Paul Hindemith > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGnLP6g8ETw&feature=related <, Nicoli Kapustin> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xht5tUg3K8&feature=related <, Carl Nielsen > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VFn2Pt3m8Q&feature=related <<br /> Krystof Penderecki > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fsqa55qhUQ&feature=related <<br /> Sergi Prokofiev > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSPDmQtWPak <<br /> Roy Harris > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKdMO7NdJRQ <,
Gustav Mahler, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K6NNfeeB_k <<br /> Bohuslav Martinu > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPnKuIMQvp4&feature=related Maurice Ravel, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrOJcEHXYWM <<br /> Litte Boy is Leonard Bernstein, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtnjixhvOTU&feature=PlayList&p=81F039D208EB0F84&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=4 <<br /> Rossini > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYUdixQGF0w <<br /> Jean Sibelius > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t49T0ETYRAM&feature=related
Carl Orff, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5STsFV6wu6w <<br /> Hector Berlioz, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrezpUWIY98&feature=related <<br /> Stockhausen > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XfeWp2y1Lk <<br /> Ludwig Beethoven>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmvNS52VN_8&feature=related <, Anton Bruckner, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pan8570va8&feature=related
Robert and Clara Schumann, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wct4zGVB5mQ&feature=related <<br /> Frederick Chopin, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGRO05WcNDk <<br /> Johannes Brahms, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU-qesI_ADs <<br /> Shostakovitch ( or possibly Harry Potter ) > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EB0jBhjSxoY <<br /> Rimsky Korsakov and family with young student composer Igor Stravinsky
Bela Bartok, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd744RSVAb0&feature=related <<br /> Igor Stravinsky, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOMt-MiI018&feature=related <<br /> Arnold and Gerturde Schoenberg with Charlie Chaplin, > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oarPobOc-js <,
- At 5:47am on August 19, 2009,
Danny De Can said…
- Thanks, Ann.
- At 1:26am on August 19, 2009,
AMELius Lum AYANA said… - I will! I was recording yesterday, so I will be posting again this week.. Thanks for your interest!
- At 8:53am on August 17, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- Well, sorry to hear about you getting drenched in an attempt to find out more about Wozzeck. I appreciate your attempt to learn more about that piece. Keep o writing. You have some good insights into what makes music work.
- At 9:32pm on August 16, 2009,
Ronnie Doyle said… - Hey Ann! Thanks for the nice words much appreciated! I'll give your music it's due attention! Take care and keep in touch,
Ronnie
- At 11:06pm on August 15, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- here it is again > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fKGDUxR76o<<br />
If this doesn't play for you, go to youtube and type in wozzeck drowning scene.
Water> Think about the fact that nothing is sold and maybe that means that the soprano, alto, tenor and bass don't necessarily have to sing in the same tempo or key or language and that the keyboard part doesn't really have to be related to the vocal parts. But water has force... the Bernulli principal I think it is. Try to experiment a little with fragmented musical thoughts the have some commonality that is not readily apparent. Each line makes horizontal sense and is singable ( no wild leaps) but the whole is much different than the sum of the parts. For the time being, and just to get started, let the basses sing pretty much in the key of C, the tenors in G the altos in D and the sopranos in A. Let a phrase for the basses by 4 units or time, for the tenors 5 for the altos 6 and for the sopranos 7 (what a unit of time is strictly up to you).
You have some interesting ideas that need to be liberated. The exercise above may assist that, then again it may not.
Keep writing. You wont get anywhere reading what I have to say but you will make progress if you just keep writing.
- At 6:40pm on August 15, 2009,
Fredrick zinos said…
- OK I think I understand what you are getting at in TIDE. Here is an example of different ways of Handeling Water Music > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6fKGDUxR76o <<br />
Water is, well... wet. Your piece has some nice ideas but they are made of gothic stone.
But not a bad effort. Now relax a little, nice glass of Merlot, and do it again.
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