"Very nice piece. But I think it has a good baroque feel, with some elements that sounds more modern. I suppose that's neo-baroque, even though I have only listened to the classic baroque. The chord progression is more advanced than baroque, but…"
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Roger Noren replied to Roger Noren's discussion Roger Norén - Jig to Daddy"Hi Gijs,
Yes, some of the themes are only variations of each other, that's true. Melodic development is the funniest part of composing, yet the most difficult, at least what I experience. I really tried hard on this one, but I will look again…"
Gijs van Beusekom replied to Roger Noren's discussion Roger Norén - Jig to Daddy"I really enjoyed the way you handled the theme with the various instruments. It was very filmmusic and you were propebly aiming for that. I do think the piece would benifit from some melodic development. Besides the instrumental variations the…"
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GENRE: Film music/classicalLENGTH: 3:49COMPOSED BY: Roger NorénPERFORMED BY: The sameYEAR OF PRODUCTION: 2010FORMAT: mp3 I call this a jig, I'm not sure if I'm right...I would be glad to get feedback on both composition as well as the production, which I tried to get as realistic as possible. I have used the following libraries:Strings: EWQLSO and VSLWoods: VSLBrass: Garritan(Project SAM) and VSLPercussion: VSL, EWQLSO and GarritanCelesta: GarritanSee More
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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Orchestra, Small Ensemble, Songs, Other, film
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Baroque and vintage pop music. Late 1800 also.
- Is music your main income source?
- No - Not at all.
- Where do you live?
- Gaevle, Sweden
- About Me (MUST be more than 10 words to be approved):
- Been a pop/rock musician for many years, but recently started compose classical and film music. I try to play every instrument I come across.
I work with Cubase/pc, my "classical" music mostly contain sounds from GPO, spiced with occasional instrument from Siedlaszec's CCC.
I have my own studio, very small but... a studio. I can record vox, guitars, digital drums, keys etc.
My songs
Daybreak at Kinsale
3 movements influenced by Baroque composers such as Purcell and Vivaldi.
100% GPO with only solo instruments used to get a feel of a chamber orchestra.
Music and lyrics by me, except movement 3 where the text is written by the english poet John Donne 1572-1631.
Singers (as they appear)
Alto 1 and 2: Maria Hedman
Baritone1 and 2: Micael Ryding
Background vocal: myself
Soprano 1-4: Åsa Wetter
Morning
A mini symphony i F#minor, my favourite key. It is very tonal, romantic also.
Consists of three movements, morning, noon and evening. Tempo varies a lot, and the last part has a different meter (3/4.) I tried to stick to a certain theme, and vary it in three ways - straight 4/4, march and waltz. Recycling of certain melodic elements also.
100% GPO it is.
Old Sequoia
My first try on film scoring, it is supposed to be something for the adventure genre, western typically. EWQLSO should have been ideal here but I used GPO and CCC since it was what I had. I thought it would be a good experience to see if it is possibly to tweak GPO to the more expressive EWQLSO. I probably buy the latter soon, it seams so much easier for more heavy and aggressive styles...
Valan
Maybe a little bit neo-classic. The lyrics (in swedish) is from the first part of the old norse Edda, where the creation myth and the world's end is explained by a wise-women's prophecy. There are many verses, I only used #3 and 59, which are about creation and resurrection. The world's end is instrumental and illustrated by the falling notes and "ugly" sounds.
Sung by Maria Hedman.
Instruments from GPO, choir and instrument effects from CCC. About 50/50 I think, and it doesn't sound typical GPO to me.
3 movements influenced by Baroque composers such as Purcell and Vivaldi.
100% GPO with only solo instruments used to get a feel of a chamber orchestra.
Music and lyrics by me, except movement 3 where the text is written by the english poet John Donne 1572-1631.
Singers (as they appear)
Alto 1 and 2: Maria Hedman
Baritone1 and 2: Micael Ryding
Background vocal: myself
Soprano 1-4: Åsa Wetter
Morning
A mini symphony i F#minor, my favourite key. It is very tonal, romantic also.
Consists of three movements, morning, noon and evening. Tempo varies a lot, and the last part has a different meter (3/4.) I tried to stick to a certain theme, and vary it in three ways - straight 4/4, march and waltz. Recycling of certain melodic elements also.
100% GPO it is.
Old Sequoia
My first try on film scoring, it is supposed to be something for the adventure genre, western typically. EWQLSO should have been ideal here but I used GPO and CCC since it was what I had. I thought it would be a good experience to see if it is possibly to tweak GPO to the more expressive EWQLSO. I probably buy the latter soon, it seams so much easier for more heavy and aggressive styles...
Valan
Maybe a little bit neo-classic. The lyrics (in swedish) is from the first part of the old norse Edda, where the creation myth and the world's end is explained by a wise-women's prophecy. There are many verses, I only used #3 and 59, which are about creation and resurrection. The world's end is instrumental and illustrated by the falling notes and "ugly" sounds.
Sung by Maria Hedman.
Instruments from GPO, choir and instrument effects from CCC. About 50/50 I think, and it doesn't sound typical GPO to me.
Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 6:11pm on January 19, 2010,
Simon Godden said… - Great Baroque pastiche. Organising your vocalists like that must have been some task. There's something eerily 21st century about it, but I can't place it.
- At 6:34pm on October 31, 2009,
Christoforos Christofi said… - hello there. I liked Valan a lot... can you tell something more about the lyrics? I understand its about swedish mythology somewhat, but maybe some reference would be nice. Or even the meening in English if it's easy to do
- At 6:45am on August 19, 2009,
Kento said… - Hi, how are you doing? I saw you were new here and wanted to drop a line!
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