To answer honestly and briefly, in the semantic sense of "know", as a regurgitated buzzword, undoubtedly. In the technical and demonstrable sense, however, not that I can discern.
Fredrick:
Still trying to perfect the recording process for a new instrument. Having just completed my C#minor P&F, I wanted to present some good music to try this new recording process. It was a difficult decision, but in the end, I chose good music. Besides, I know this piece much better than my own. Please stop by and enjoy some Frescobaldi, #1 slot. It's heard, due to stringing, a semitone lower than written.
American Songs...
Very pretty... Very uplifting...
Visual...
What are you using for samples? I would recommend something from East West that would live up to this beautiful piece of music.
On American Songs: I liked the triplet polyrhythm in the accompaniment before 3:00 although my ears are a little shocked by the Bb's in the piece, especially a little before and after the 3 minute mark in this particular phrase that goes I think, A-Bb-A-G...I'm guessing it's referential to the blues scale but in the context of the music it sounds a little shocking to me because the material before it doesn't seem to introduce the Bb anywhere.
I particularly like the use of the double reeds (oboe and bassoon) as well as the high strings later in the piece.
on the Requiem -- I should note here that in that case especially, I was not trying to do anything really "new" -- rather, in my time of grief, i found it a comfort to fall back on the familiar. I wrote the Req. in a month -- did nothing else but compose -- and drink Tequila LOL!
ps my composition teacher (whom I visit sporadically), Ofer Ben-Amots, said once that perhaps I was a reincarnation of one of the late romantic composers. I don't know if he was joking or not, but I do have a fondness for clothing from that era and feel perfectly comfortable even going out in such garments. And I have a special fondness for tuxedos with tailcoats, and own two of them. HOHO! And yes, I do wear them!
Dear Frederick, thank you so much for listening and your kind words -- cheered me up this eve, as i am feeling tired and uninspired (it happens). I feel much like Cinderella, because my musical activities are like a dream that seems unreal. Though I have been involved in music in some form or other since 8, i have no degree in it, let alone specifically in composition. I do have talented people who give me advice though, for which i am very grateful. But I've only been writing seriously since 2006. I guess I have to credit my mother for always having the classical radio on, and, I suppose, some innate ability I was born with. I have read some composers' descriptions of how they compose, and one said it was like someone was sitting there with him telling him what to do. For me it is often like that. The "Muse" will say something like "after a dotted quarter note's length, you need the oboe to come in on this note at that volume, etc,.etc." But when the muse isn't visiting, I am pretty helpless, or so it feels.
And you? What is the process by which you compose?
I am not very skilled at harmony -- my ear saves me there, but I can't analyze my music the way an educated composer can. I notice your skill with harmonies in your American Songs. Maybe someday I will understand more about it.
Hi Fredrick. Thank you for your invitation to your page and for the aesthetic pleasure by listening your music. You are really perfect composer with sense of humor and beautiful approach to composing and orchestration. Your friend Sergiy.
Well thanks for listening, Mr Zinos. I had a similar thought about my music. How can one parody what is already quite comical? I have an answer: whatever I do which seems sophomoric and in poor taste, I just do more of that.
Oh I forgot, the requiem can be heard here: (and the lyrics are listed with translation). The voices are simulated -- just "Ah's" but that is the best I could do with the software I have!
Dear Fred, you will be happy to hear that my doctor is both an osteopath and also very familiar with CAM treatments - in fact, he has prescribed a mix of mushrooms (including at least one you mention cordycepts -- can't remember the others) that is available in capsulles to help. Also, some folks seem to respond to guifenesen (an expectorant) and the substance in mother's milk (forget the name). Thanks for the suggestions -- it feels sometimes like hitting a moving target. I miss working (I was a software engineer and loved my work), but thank goodness for my composing, which i can do as i feel like it -- otherwise, I think I should go insane!
Glad to see you have American Songs up. Wonderful music. I take it you didn't care for my self-parody too much? OK - I'll stick to the straight stuff, of which I'll have some to post just as soon as I figure out how to play and record it.
Dear Frederick,
I am enjoying you American Songs very much. I have much to learn about harmony, and like you, make no living at music (I was a software engineer for 14 years, now disabled by an autoimmune disease ("allergic to myself" as I like to say, which carries with it its own cosmic humor). I think your American songs are just lovely and skillful. I hope I may learn from them. I write mostly by ear, and so listening to others' works is so very important to me.
Last year I lost my mother, and wrote a Requiem for her and secretly for other losses of a different sort; this year I lost one of my best friends to a virulent brain cancer. The requiem is slated to be performed next year... I see my body, as it gets older (responding to you declarations of aging), beginning to fall apart slowly -- for though I am only 47, death seems ever before me due to this auto-immune thing which makes me older than my chronological age. I am listening to your piece as I write this and I must heartily disagree with your comparison of your music to mine -- I have so much to learn, Frederick. My friend Matt Philli[ps, over whose music I think we had a tiff in the past, has now earned his PhD in music and I am so glad you and he are still connected!
american song, love the two distinct voices, and of course the patriotic flare, how emotion can really be pinpointed by instrumental music is a wonder, and your counterpoint is 'brave'...
composers such as yourself, can simply always compose new pieces, this is your burden....
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Still trying to perfect the recording process for a new instrument. Having just completed my C#minor P&F, I wanted to present some good music to try this new recording process. It was a difficult decision, but in the end, I chose good music. Besides, I know this piece much better than my own. Please stop by and enjoy some Frescobaldi, #1 slot. It's heard, due to stringing, a semitone lower than written.
Very pretty... Very uplifting...
Visual...
What are you using for samples? I would recommend something from East West that would live up to this beautiful piece of music.
I particularly like the use of the double reeds (oboe and bassoon) as well as the high strings later in the piece.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nj3YEXpJI2g
And you? What is the process by which you compose?
I am not very skilled at harmony -- my ear saves me there, but I can't analyze my music the way an educated composer can. I notice your skill with harmonies in your American Songs. Maybe someday I will understand more about it.
Best wishes,
Karen
Best wishes,
Karen
http://soundclick.com/share?songid=6959331
Best wishes, Frederick,
Karen
Glad to see you have American Songs up. Wonderful music. I take it you didn't care for my self-parody too much? OK - I'll stick to the straight stuff, of which I'll have some to post just as soon as I figure out how to play and record it.
I am enjoying you American Songs very much. I have much to learn about harmony, and like you, make no living at music (I was a software engineer for 14 years, now disabled by an autoimmune disease ("allergic to myself" as I like to say, which carries with it its own cosmic humor). I think your American songs are just lovely and skillful. I hope I may learn from them. I write mostly by ear, and so listening to others' works is so very important to me.
Last year I lost my mother, and wrote a Requiem for her and secretly for other losses of a different sort; this year I lost one of my best friends to a virulent brain cancer. The requiem is slated to be performed next year... I see my body, as it gets older (responding to you declarations of aging), beginning to fall apart slowly -- for though I am only 47, death seems ever before me due to this auto-immune thing which makes me older than my chronological age. I am listening to your piece as I write this and I must heartily disagree with your comparison of your music to mine -- I have so much to learn, Frederick. My friend Matt Philli[ps, over whose music I think we had a tiff in the past, has now earned his PhD in music and I am so glad you and he are still connected!
Hope you and yours are well and happy,
All my best,
Karen Peace
composers such as yourself, can simply always compose new pieces, this is your burden....
hugs
douglas
listen to maurice jarre's 'building a barn'
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