A love song for voice, mandolin, block flute and classical guitar

[Ali Riza SARAL]

Hi,

I had promised one of my high school friends, İsmail KARAHAN, to compose one of his poems.

But did not.  Then recently I heard he is ailing with a serious health problem.  I had to write

this in one week not to regret my promise for the rest of my life.

I hope you enjoy it.

Ali

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eG-Z1IJnP50

Note. The theme comes from the major at the end with a smooth transformation.

[Ingo Lee]

Very nice Ali, I'm sure your friend will love this and be honored to have your music displaying his lyrics.  You have a good arrangement and sound here, it would be wonderful to hear this with a singer.

[Sean Pollaro]

It's beautiful. Congratulations!

[Ali Riza SARAL]

Thank you Ingo, I hope sometime in the future a real performance may show up.

Ingo Lee said:

Very nice Ali, I'm sure your friend will love this and be honored to have your music displaying his lyrics.  You have a good arrangement and sound here, it would be wonderful to hear this with a singer.

[Ali Riza SARAL]

Thank you Sean.

Sean Pollaro said:

It's beautiful. Congratulations!

[Dane Aubrun]

HI, Ali,

Nice to see you again. I was going to drop you a note but knew you were busy - and here you are!

A most pleasant song and a lovely poem to work with. Nice that it slowly transformed into the major from round about bar 100.

I haven't tried to analyse it - don't want to with a song like this in case it breaks the spell of the music for me. But I noticed plenty of indicators of your skills, quite aside from the general harmony that has some interesting twists.  A few suspensions, harmonies with the recorder in contrary motion, nice contrapuntal effect - and such.

Your friend should be pleased indeed - let's hope so.

And I hope you're keeping well and coping with this endless lockdown it seems.

All the best,

Dane.