louis
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Post by louis on Oct 19, 2021 19:25:46 GMT
First upload. Would love to have some feedback! Thanks, Louis
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Post by gx on Oct 19, 2021 19:35:35 GMT
Hi Louis. Welcome. I tried to listen to your recording, but it cut off after the 1st page... from what I gathered - classical style, well crafted. Didn't get to your development section...
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Post by fuguestate on Oct 19, 2021 23:29:19 GMT
Very nice opening, nice classical style, packed with ideas. But the audio cuts off at the end of the 1st page for me as well. Perhaps you need to re-upload the audio? Would love to hear the rest of the piece. My sight-reading isn't as good as it ought to be, so I feel a bit lost with just the score.
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Post by louis on Oct 20, 2021 17:33:38 GMT
Hi there. I can only get it in the 1 MB limit at really low quality but here it is. Attachments:Sonata in G major.mp3 (941.53 KB)
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Post by fuguestate on Oct 20, 2021 18:20:25 GMT
Very nice! I enjoyed it, it's full of surprises. The harmony isn't entirely in the classical style, but I loved it anyway for its surprises.
Maybe you should consider uploading a high-quality version to a site like soundcloud.com that doesn't have a file size limit. 1MB is really low for audio files, and doesn't do your music justice. (For my own music I've also been posting on other sites because 1MB here is too small.)
Hope to hear more of your music!
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Post by gx on Oct 22, 2021 16:11:47 GMT
A bright buoyant tune. There is a certain irregularity to the structure - which didn't quite work for me - in the context of this style. The first part has 7 bars, plus another 7, plus 6 more bars until the meno moss section. However, I realize that the 8th bar is the cadence of the first section, but also sounds like the 1st bar of the second section.. The same thing happens from bar 8 to bar 15, where bar 15 is the cadence to the previous section, as well as the 1st bar of the next - which lasts 6 bars. It is kind of a truncated form - bringing a kind of whimsy -thwarting expectation. The question for me being - if it works. These are just my impressions - and I do think it is fine to stretch and compress structures - but not sure of the musical result here. I have the same criticism of some of Schubert's sonatas... where other listeners are easily carried for the ride.. Thank you for posting, Louis.
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Post by fuguestate on Oct 22, 2021 16:49:33 GMT
[...] However, I realize that the 8th bar is the cadence of the first section, but also sounds like the 1st bar of the second section.. The same thing happens from bar 8 to bar 15, where bar 15 is the cadence to the previous section, as well as the 1st bar of the next - which lasts 6 bars. Have you ever listened to Bernstein's Norton lectures? He talked about this sort of thing in places like Beethoven's 6th, where it's exploited to impart a kind of ambiguity that drives forward momentum. Not sure if it was effectively used here, but I do like this sort of thing.
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louis
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Post by louis on Oct 27, 2021 23:51:53 GMT
A bright buoyant tune. There is a certain irregularity to the structure - which didn't quite work for me - in the context of this style. The first part has 7 bars, plus another 7, plus 6 more bars until the meno moss section. However, I realize that the 8th bar is the cadence of the first section, but also sounds like the 1st bar of the second section.. The same thing happens from bar 8 to bar 15, where bar 15 is the cadence to the previous section, as well as the 1st bar of the next - which lasts 6 bars. It is kind of a truncated form - bringing a kind of whimsy -thwarting expectation. The question for me being - if it works. These are just my impressions - and I do think it is fine to stretch and compress structures - but not sure of the musical result here. I have the same criticism of some of Schubert's sonatas... where other listeners are easily carried for the ride.. Thank you for posting, Louis. Thank you for the criticism. This is really helpful as phrase lengths is something I struggle with. Louis
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