Halloween Music

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- Rowy > Jon Corelis October 6, 2023 at 1:30pm
  
  I don't find any of the three songs really scary. I'm not complaining; I once composed a piece about a sad old witch, and it didn't sound scary either. I orchestrated it for symphony orchestra, using the VSTs I could lay my hands on, but soon realized I didn't give a fuck about orchestral work. I finished it and then stopped writing for orchestra. Although I'm tempted to write for a small chamber orchestra, so I can have some fun with the Basso Continuo.
  
  I like the third song best, Jon, probably because of the instrumentation. The claves make it a bit scary.
David October 6, 2023 at 2:03pm

I've never written any specifically Halloween music but if burning witches counts, then by all means listen to the section from around 34'10" in my Hansel and Gretel where the event is described in gory detail.I found it scary to write at any rate, although the real point is the joy in Hansel's voice when he shouts "the old witch is dead" a few seconds later.....
- Rowy > David October 7, 2023 at 4:34am
  
  Stupid me couldn't find your Hansel and Gretel. It's not on your playlist. Would you be so kind to give me a link?
- David > Rowy October 7, 2023 at 5:38am
  
  same link as Cinderella (and my other abuses of fairytales) https://play.reelcrafter.com/dko22/vocalmusic
  
  vocal music
  
  originally from St. Andrews, Scotland, a self taught composer of works in primarily traditional forms such as the symphony or string quartet though w…
- Rowy > David October 7, 2023 at 9:13am
  
  You're right, that was scary.
Ivor October 6, 2023 at 4:54pm

Nothing Haloween. People have claimed a few pieces would be good for horror films.

I was listening to a few to see if anything could be adapted but it caused me to realise my composing days are pretty-well up. I wrote my "best" things 6 to 2 years ago. It gets more difficlt to develop beyond... Maybe I need some flying ointment (but being male, not applied in the usual way)!
- Rowy > Ivor October 7, 2023 at 4:42am
  
  If you believe there's no more room for improvement, you don't need ointment; you need a kick in the butt. Composers tend to write their best or most important work at the end of their life. Well, are you dead yet, or are you just pining for the fjords?
- Ivor > Rowy October 7, 2023 at 6:46am
  
  HA!
  
  Pining for the fjords more like....whether I can a-fjord a slave to copy parts from my handwritten manuscripts. (I have my LRAM. Luddite of the Rotting Academy of Musicians).
  
  Well, some composers write their best at the end of their lives but others don't. Examples Stravinsky and Vaughan Williams..
  
  Like me, they seemed to start de-composing early.
  
  :)
- Mike Hewer > Ivor October 7, 2023 at 7:25am
  
  gosh Ivor, your experience of the RAM is very different to what mine was by the sound of things...I'm not rotting yet and not planning on starting to smell anytime soon.
- Ivor > Mike Hewer October 8, 2023 at 1:17pm
  
  Aww, no. Mine was OK. I can't blame the RAM for my own misgivings... though I recall more recently, what? 10 years ago, some pop music band member a certain Paul Morley, was awarded an honorary something-RAM. I wrote a nasty letter. To me it meant the end of any professionalism with the RAM. He didn't know even how to write a scale.
  
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