RIP, Peter Schickele... I found a lot of this score amusing and trust much of this group will too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baUHfb9EIzg
Read more…Recently I am active mostly in orchestrating Beethoven's wonderful counterpoint studies, for example these splendid and yet so unknown TripleFugues:
https://youtu.be/gQqM9iiOWMs?si=J1eeN5z2UDBppb8m ...
The notes in the video contain only the original
Read more…It's a New Year and at this time, we're all supposed to look optimistically to the future, difficult though it might seem with all the nonsense that's going on in the world. So I offer this antidote which is among the most tuneful and hopeful of all
Read more…Who guesses the original composer/work of my new ochestration? --> https://gerdprengel.de/orch.mp3 Any remarks about this orchestration I would appreciate before I create a YT Video with the score ...
Gerd
For all your fugue nerds, Dorico 5.1 has a new polyphony balancing playback feature. Pretty nice demo in the Scoring Notes review...
Dorico 5.1: Filling the gaps - Scoring Notes
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I'm sure I've posted this here before, but - to maximally incentivise christmas cheer - here's my SATB setting of the medieval carol "I Sing Of A Maiden", recorded by ORA Singers. https://youtu.be/tuJU1XaWY8k?si=6kQGVT3HYuteuNbP
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Read more…Hi there i have to mix this orchestral piece for my uni project. Anyone have any suggestions? Also is there a similar sounding track that I can reference? I'm guessing a chirstmas movie maybe?
Christmas Tune
Any help undersatnd
Read more…My wife was at a concert which featured a sonata for clarinet and viola and really liked the combination so I decided to try my hand at a trio including the piano. Compared to most works this year which have been often pretty doleful, this, although
Read more…Yesterday I wrote a miniature instrumental Christmas "carol", to add to the three I've previously written. It's only a minute long, with an intentionally simple arrangement. Any comments would be quite welcome!
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Against my better judgement, as fairy tales seem to have become an increasingly regular part of my output, I decided to try and draw your attention here to my just completed (well, the first draft) Cinderella setting. Normally it's too much to expec
Read more…Hey all, I thought I'd put this up and see if anyone likes it. It's long been finished, recorded and released, so if you *don't* like it then we'll all just have to live with it, but I hope you do.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7irhRZyixk
Some of my
Read more…Does anyone find the font size quite small to read? Even with my glasses on some of it is tricky to read. Also the white font on the grey background doesn't help.
Read more…LONG- BUT HOPEFULLY INTERESTING- STUDY DONE ON HS TEOH'S THREAD FOR FUGUE IN G, WHERE OPINIONS LEANED TOWARDS THE POLINA RECORDING
(I would have posted this in the original thread for consistency, however, it seems you cannot attach images in replies
Read more…This is a 33 minute throwback-to-the-19th-Century composition for a full symphony orchestra with extra brass (2 trumpets, 2 horns, and 2 trombones) expected to play from the balcony - an idea that I stole from Respighi (who probably stole it from Mah
Read more…I've been on a Shostakovich binge recently, prompted by this video about the second movement of his Eleventh Symphony (a work of his I hadn't known before this year). And yes, it includes a fugato section, Teoh...!
https://youtu.be/RU7a1b4yE-Q?si=1VO
Read more…Hey folks, here's a musical puzzle to solve. Listen to the piano music with the score and see if you can guess the very well known Christmas song that is embedded within. Hint - the tune is not played in a straight forward way. If you figure it out
Read more…Here's my new piece, Invocation for mixed ensemble.
Stephane
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