JCP61 wrote:PaperDog wrote:I Promised myself to ignore you and not listen... By My curiosity got the best of me.
In short... (My opinion only) It has some 'prettyness' about it , which speaks volumes for that lovely instrument we know to be the violin...(I could tell this was keyboard generated . There is only one guy I know who can pull that off with flying colors (Max Richter)) The track is adequate, but it doesn't 'move'. Seems to suspend in a fixed spot for the duration of the piece. Not really memorable...
It seems you attempted to open this up as a Sonata (classical form) ... But, You never made it past the first section. ( Was this supposed to be part of a bigger piece?)
There were parts of the piano that did not agree with the violin. A clash of roles... If the Gift is about dabbling with an artifact, unraveling it, discovering its contents... All I got was the 'dabbling with it' part
In classical terms, Your violin playing probably wouldn't make the 1st, 2nd or 3rd chair... But It suffices for the pop audience... (Might even be plausible in a greenich Village coffee house....)well i hoped you wouldn't bother
cause I really didn't want to hear about the terms and people you googled recently just to say something bad about it.
Oh come now , Mr JC... I said nothing bad at all about your piece. I gave you an honest assessment...which is far more than you have ever offered.
it would take several paragraphs to answer all your wrong assumptions.
but seriously, what would it serve?
Spoken like a true Ivory- tower associate.. . Indeed Mr. JC; What would it serve? Please don't ever knock yourself out...Far be it from me to insist that you do.Ive actually listen to some top notch musicians in a Greenwich village coffee house and my daughter and her husband use these places to keep many good classical musicians employed.
yes if you must know, some of them are black some of them are hispanic and some of them are gay. some of them are a mixture of all three. at least that's the rumor.
Like I said before, your piece would work very well for that audience (I was not kidding) . But if you were trying to convince anybody or give them the impression that you composed a bonafied classical piece... Sorry, You didnt..Hendrix was discovered in a Greenwich village coffee house, so the story goes.
and just so you know "sonata" just means "a piece that is played", it doesn't really mean anything more than that.
I hope you sue your music teachers..They need a serious ass-whipping. For the record, (Just to annoy you), I'm posting this Wiki definition of a Sonata... And please spare us the agony of your pious counter-points... You cannot win... Your piece started as an exposition, and it leaves the listener hanging.. Be a real man and just admit it...and then move on to improve your compositional skills.
Sonata form is a large-scale musical structure used widely since the middle of the 18th century (the early Classical period). While it is typically used in the first movement of multi-movement pieces, it is sometimes used in subsequent movements as well?particularly the final movement. The teaching of sonata form in music theory rests on a standard definition and a series of hypotheses about the underlying reasons for the durability and variety of the form?a definition that arose in the second quarter of the 19th century[1]. There is little disagreement that on the largest level, the form consists of three main sections: an exposition, a development, and a recapitulation;[2] however, beneath this, sonata form is difficult to pin down in terms of a single model.
