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- What have you composed for? Or what medium do you work around?
- Multimedia, Choir, Small Ensemble
- What is your favorite genre or style of music?
- Classical, Folk, Chamber, Early, Most all kinds
- Is music your main income source?
- Sort Of - Music Related
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- Murfreesboro/Nashville
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Comment Wall (3 comments)
- At 10:59am on September 21, 2015,
J Joe Townley said…
Ooops, on rechecking my links here I see I did put up the link to the score on YouTube. I thought I'd put up the audio only version here. My mistake. It's tough getting old.
- At 10:51am on September 21, 2015,
Thank you, Will for invitation which I heartily accept, and I'm glad you enjoyed the waltz. I don't have the score as pdf so I can't put it on CF but it's here at this link on YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwoGJ3bn2f0
The "organ" effect you're referring to at 1:24 of the audio was intentional, but it was a bear getting the right combination of instruments to achieve it--not just the instruments but making the digitized dynamic markings on all the instruments just precise to get it eg. if I'd put a mp on the top oboe instead of a p I would have lost it.
I learned orchestration just by working on Notion (any VST notation program will do but the playback has to be good/excellent quality, not mickey-mouse free things on the Internet like Muse and Opera). I bought Notion three years ago for $199--an excellent buy at the time considering the reproduction quality, though good speakers do play a huge part in what you hear; some complain to me that the music sounds terrible and I need Vienna or EWQL--my Bose speakers, however, make it sound like the Berlin Phil. Just by playing with the various instrument combinations one can teach themselves what works best. I have harmony training and piano training which helped a great deal, but there's a steep learning curve to working with Notion, and now it's jumped to $499, I think it is.
Again, very glad you enjoyed it. I hope you check out my Piano Concerto No 2, also here on CF and YouTube w/ score, though the screen capture program deteriorated the sound quality immensely. Hope you enjoy CF's environment as I see you're a new member. Welcome. I'm heading over to your page to check out your compositions. Will post a message again soon.
All the best,
J Joe
- At 3:07pm on September 19, 2015,
Tyler Hughes said…
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