"Depending on who you ask repetition is either fine, to be admired, or reprehensible and "'easy'". I say repetition has great precedents in classical music and your writing works well within it."
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Charles Holt - pleased to meet you!
Started this discussion. Last reply by Bob Morabito Jun 19, 2018. 2 Replies 1 Like
I've been reading through some older posts before saying anything and from what I've found I think I'm going to be very happy here!I'm privileged to have had a successful career in what might still…Continue
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"Ah that makes more sense. So most of the issues are workarounds for you to get sibelius sounding as you would like but you know in real life they wouldn't function the same way. That deals with 90% of my input very nicely.I would not recommend…"
"If this is for live performance then a few issues come to mind which are probably of more use than saying what I think works.Woodwinds: if you have only one oboe and clarinet those parts are not going to make you popular. If you have two or more…"
"My understanding is that while such music may be public domain the recording or production of it may not. The orchestra or their publisher is likely to own the right to that recorded version though there may be a resource for public domain…"
"My understanding is that while such music may be public domain the recording or production of it may not. The orchestra or their publisher is likely to own the right to that recorded version though there may be a resource for public domain…"
"Saul: "I think that he is a perfectionist, and I generally am not very fond of perfectionists."This explains an awful lot."
""Composition is difficult as it is, aint no reason to make it more difficult."Difficult is what makes one better. To be frank your music will not improve much if you shy from the minor technical difficulties of a DAW as you tend to shy…"
"I could go into depth on what I felt didn't work musically if it's helpful but themore positive side is that overall I enjoyed it, it had a medieval folk feel. I also applaud writing for a woodwind ensemble which is much less forgiving…"
"If I've persuaded you to make your music even worse because you confuse critique with malice then thats actually something of a '"win"'!"
"Its not a case of "'getting it"' Saul it is very obvious why you chose to include it but it is just a penetrating noise after the fourth instance. Unique is not the same as good or difficult and my advice would be severely…"
"Musicians especially good ones who can sight read anything within reason are expensive. I assume this is where the majority of entrance fees go since most competitions promise either a playthrough to "'test'" the piece or perform…"
"Tim, while I agree that some manner of AI will have a hand in creating fake compositions I don't think it will truly affect the field. There will always be those in need of music happy to use the bland, the obvious and the lowest denominator…"
"I believe the section size is correlated with the number of string players so a small string section would be drowned by a large brass section of coutse. I recomment finding concert footage of orchestra and ensembles and working out how many players…"
"I was talking about preparing music for performance or recording. The same piece of music and one experienced person working with DAW/NS and one experienced person working with paper to create the same score and parts. Paper might win for very…"
"I would bet that an experienced orchestrator or composer working with software would hands-down beat paper. Imagine trying to hand-write an entire score and then the dozens of individual parts for an orchestral performance in less time than someone…"
"To truly master a pro-level DAW will of course take a long time and is a different field to composition. But to get good enough with it that you can use it for basic recording would take a couple of weeks if that. I feel you might have tinkered with…"
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Multimedia, Choir, Songs
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Choral
- Is music your main income source?
- No - Not at all.
- Where do you live?
- UK
- About Me (Must include at least one paragraph of biographical information about you as a composer) - blank or minimal answers on this line will cause your request to be rejected. Include a link to your website if you have one.
- I am a choral and sacred composer with four decades of experience, now beginning to move away from the rigorous strictures surrounding such work into a more harmonically unbound future. I'm hoping to meet fellow practitioners and get some meat on the skeleton of my output! Talk to you soon, Charles
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- At 3:22pm on June 17, 2018,
Gav Brown said…
Welcome Charles!
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