Etude in C major No.2 for Solo Piano
Presto Brilliante
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69D7YwwGC0Y
Hi Saul,
My initial thought is your move to the mediant is unsatisfying because you make redundant use of the E Minor chord. It feels very static in light of the well-known descending thirds sequence/Romanesca schema you open the piece with. Perhaps explore the progression through a more profound predominant of E Minor before hitting the B Major chord so we don't get bored of E Minor before we even get there. I like the large texture though. Perhaps variate it a bit more as well. Thanks for sharing.
Sorry, to be clear I am referring to the beginning of the etude. Thanks.
Quote from: btpaul674 on March 09, 2008, 08:47:33 PM
Sorry, to be clear I am referring to the beginning of the etude. Thanks.
I dont know what to say except that I developed the piece in accordance of what I heard in my mind and the feeling I wanted to express. I dont want to change anything in it.
Thanks for listening ! :)
Fantasy In F sharp minor for Solo piano.
Allegro con Fuoco,
Regards,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6xPURjL1XQ
Anyone that is interested,
Best Regards,
Saul
www.saulcomposer.com
You're so talented.
Thank you Marazm. :)
Quote from: Saul on May 16, 2008, 06:24:30 AM
Thank you Marazm. :)
I'm a software developer, and developed numerous dynamic asp.net sites, yet never have I developed a personal site! Myspace doesn't count.
Marazm,
I must tell you that it wasn't that difficult to develop my website. It's not HTML, and the host provides with simple tools to build this site. Though it does require some measure of design and art, but aside from this, I think anyone can build a site that doesn't require HTML.
Regards,
What about one single thread for all your various posts? ::)
"Saul's Shed" or something?
Q
Quote from: Que on May 17, 2008, 09:57:22 PM
What about one single thread for all your various posts? ::)
"Saul's Shed" or something?
Or something more modest, like
The Saular System?
Quote from: Que on May 17, 2008, 09:57:22 PM
What about one single thread for all your various posts? ::)
"Saul's Shed" or something?
Q
Yes, go on... what about it?
Quote from: Saul on May 17, 2008, 10:55:33 PM
Yes, go on... what about it?
Do it.
Quote from: Jezetha on May 17, 2008, 10:34:48 PM
Or something more modest, like The Saular System?
Brilliant suggestion! 8)
Q
Anne, thanks for signing my guestbook!
The name of the work is 'Orchestral work In D minor'.
Regards,
Saul
You're welcome and thank you for the title of the work.
Quote from: Jezetha on May 17, 2008, 10:34:48 PM
Or something more modest, like The Saular System?
How about "Saul's Gall"?
This is a modern composition called 'Discovery'. Digitally created work with lots of Percussion.
Hope you find it enjoyable,
Best Regards,
Saul
http://www.saulcomposer.com/Discovery%20Music.mp3
Quote from: Sforzando on May 19, 2008, 08:41:32 AM
How about "Saul's Gall"?
As long as it's not
Saul's Gaol.
Quote from: Saul on May 17, 2008, 11:30:12 PM
The name of the work is 'Orchestral work In D minor'.
At least Saul is not a TOTAL lost cause ..........
Quote from: Dm on May 19, 2008, 10:37:54 AM
At least Saul is not a TOTAL lost cause ..........
Whats wrong with you?
Grow up.
Quote from: Saul on May 19, 2008, 10:02:44 AM
This is a modern composition called 'Discovery'. Digitally created work with lots of Percussion.
Hope you find it enjoyable,
Best Regards,
Saul
http://www.saulcomposer.com/Discovery%20Music.mp3
no, it sux
Thanks, Saul.
Saul,
Rather than incorporate all of your compositions into one thread as other GMG composers do, we think it's appropriate that you begin a NEW THREAD for each of your compositions. We feel that creating SEPARATE THREADS is proper given the sheer magnitude of your efforts.
BTW, that composition is PURE, ABSOLUTE "torture chamber" music ........ and I wish I never had "discovered" it ........
Quote from: Saul on March 10, 2008, 04:48:48 AM
I dont know what to say except that I developed the piece in accordance of what I heard in my mind and the feeling I wanted to express. I dont want to change anything in it.
So you think nobody has anything useful to tell you about your work?
Wow, thanks for the great remarks.
Quote from: Dm on May 20, 2008, 05:09:44 AM
BTW, that composition is PURE, ABSOLUTE "torture chamber" music ........ and I wish I never had "discovered" it ........
loool
It wasn't "lool," it was "loool."
Laugh out out out loud. ???
Quote from: MN Dave on May 20, 2008, 06:01:18 AM
It wasn't "lool," it was "loool."
Laugh out out out loud. ???
Yea, laugh out outdoors.... :D
By the way, this piece is a recording of myself playing the Keyboard.
Why don't you start a thread in the composer forum here and call it "Saul's Synagogue" or "Saul's Sabbath" or something? Then you could post all your works on one thread.
Just an idea.
Quote from: MN Dave on May 20, 2008, 06:13:33 AM
Why don't you start a thread in the composer forum here and call it "Saul's Synagogue" or "Saul's Sabbath" or something? Then you could post all your works on one thread.
Just an idea.
My modest proposal was
The Saular System, which hasn't met with any success so far.
Quote from: Jezetha on May 20, 2008, 06:16:58 AM
My modest proposal was The Saular System, which hasn't met with any success so far.
How about "Saul Good?" :P
"The Sexy Sounds and Sights of Saul" ;D
Quote from: MN Dave on May 20, 2008, 06:13:33 AM
Why don't you start a thread in the composer forum here and call it "Saul's Synagogue" or "Saul's Sabbath" or something? Then you could post all your works on one thread.
Just an idea.
LOOOL I almost spat out the coffee onto the keyboard! hahahah
The great man will come up with something of his own, I'm sure.
Mendelsaul's Mazel Tov
Quote from: Jezetha on May 20, 2008, 06:27:33 AM
The great man will come up with something of his own, I'm sure.
How about "Saul's Balls"?
'Cause it does take balls . . . .
It is - and remains - Saul's call.
You guys are all Trolls!
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 08:34:36 AM
You guys are all Trolls!
Stop feeding us then. ;)
Yes, WE'RE the trolls.
(http://www.legendgames.co.uk/acatalog/MountainTroll%5B1%5D.jpg)
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 08:34:36 AM
You guys are all Trolls!
Have you considered submitting your compositions for criticism from a music professor?
I have made this suggestion to you before: if you think you have talent, you will need to take it beyond the saulemn self-pollination of the autodidact, and see if you can develop your skills to higher levels.
Quote from: Cato on May 20, 2008, 08:51:33 AM
Have you considered submitting your compositions for criticism from a music professor?
I have made this suggestion to you before: if you think you have talent, you will need to take it beyond the saulemn self-pollination of the autodidact, and see if you can develop your skills to higher levels.
I doubt that will fly with Saul. "Criticism" of Saul is by definition false; "praise" is true.
Quote from: Cato on May 20, 2008, 08:51:33 AM
I have made this suggestion to you before: if you think you have talent, you will need to take it beyond the saulemn self-pollination of the autodidact, and see if you can develop your skills to higher levels.
;D
Quote from: Cato on May 20, 2008, 08:51:33 AM
Have you considered submitting your compositions for criticism from a music professor?
I have made this suggestion to you before: if you think you have talent, you will need to take it beyond the saulemn self-pollination of the autodidact, and see if you can develop your skills to higher levels.
I have done that by now.
You're still stuck in the 18th century.... ;D
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 09:01:34 AM
I have done that by now.
You're still stuck in the 18th century.... ;D
Nonsense! I will have you know that I am stuck in the 1st century
B.C.!!!And so which professor was this? And what did (s)he say?
Quote from: Cato on May 20, 2008, 09:35:11 AM
Nonsense! I will have you know that I am stuck in the 1st century B.C.!!!
And so which professor was this? And what did (s)he say?
I have shown my music to a concert Pianist in Julliard some 5 years ago, he liked some of my compositions and even took one of my works to show to his Professor. He did suggest that I should begin to study composition on a formal level.
Second person was my Piano Teacher who happens to be a great pianist and a Bach Expert, she was giving Master classes on Chopin in Brooklyn College. She loved some of my Ideas and the images that I create in music, she didn't tell me to study composition on a formal level. Third person was a Professor of Cello here in Brooklyn. I wanted to hire him together with his fellow musicians to perform my String Quartet in B flat major. He listened to it and did like it, but demanded a price tag for his services that I just couldn't afford.
Thats what I can remember now...
Saul, do you by any chance know Naftali Schindler?
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 09:42:07 AM
I have shown my music to a concert Pianist in Julliard some 5 years ago, he liked some of my compositions and even took one of my works to show to his Professor. He did suggest that I should begin to study composition on a formal level
Thats what I can remember now...
I will suggest the same!
Saul:
Many classical music lovers doodle around with composition and realize that they possess minimal inspiration in this field. You just haven't arrived at that point yet.
Saul's Smorgasbord?
Missa Saulemnis
Quote from: MN Dave on May 20, 2008, 09:50:39 AM
Saul's Smorgasbord?
Can you stop allready, you sound like a 2 year old, what a loser you are.
Quote from: Don on May 20, 2008, 09:49:19 AM
Saul:
Many classical music lovers doodle around with composition and realize that they possess minimal inspiration in this field. You just haven't arrived at that point yet.
Oh... said by non other then the great one DON... THE ALL KNOWING BIG SHOT !
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 09:55:26 AM
Oh... said by non other then the great one DON... THE ALL KNOWING BIG SHOT !
I'm just telling you what I hear through your musical submittals. By the way, I never said I have composed anything decent.
If you get a kick out of creating music, that's great. But don't presume that what you write is worthy of my time.
Quote from: Saul on May 19, 2008, 10:02:44 AM
This is a modern composition called 'Discovery'. Digitally created work with lots of Percussion.
Hope you find it enjoyable,
Best Regards,
Saul
http://www.saulcomposer.com/Discovery%20Music.mp3
ummmmmmm ok.......
let's see, what should i say about it?
It pretty much stays in the same key the whole time, with just a bunch of strings playing loose notes over a major chord with percussion that sounds like my little brother pressing the same note on my keyboard over and over again. String glissandos come in the middle randomly and then an electric guitar comes in from nowhere to play the same chord for 3 seconds and then it just disappears. There's no movement or change of focus in the piece at all...... pure torture. You've written a couple of pieces that I've found enjoyable, but this is by far the worst thing you've ever written and it made me laugh almost much as the most unwanted song.
If I ever become a music professor, I'll save the score to show my students how not to write music....
Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on May 20, 2008, 10:12:52 AM
ummmmmmm ok.......
let's see, what should i say about it?
It pretty much stays in the same key the whole time, with just a bunch of strings playing loose notes over a major chord with percussion that sounds like my little brother pressing the same note on my keyboard over and over again. String glissandos come in the middle randomly and then an electric guitar comes in from nowhere to play the same chord for 3 seconds and then it just disappears. There's no movement or change of focus in the piece at all...... pure torture. You've written a couple of pieces that I've found enjoyable, but this is by far the worst thing you've ever written and it made me laugh almost much as the most unwanted song.
If I ever become a music professor, I'll save the score to show my students how not to write music....
I am more then humbled by your graceful comments, Gregggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 09:53:53 AM
Can you stop allready, you sound like a 2 year old, what a loser you are.
Gosh, I was serious. Try to help someone out...
And two-year-olds spell it "already."
Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on May 20, 2008, 10:12:52 AM
pure torture.
Saul should market his music for use at the Guantánamo Bay torture dungeons ........
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 10:30:49 AM
I am more then humbled by your graceful comments, Gregggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg.
I say totally forget about this piece.... what you need to do is take the sound from "Chanukah" and develop from something that isn't bad to something brilliant.
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 08:34:36 AM
You guys are all Trolls!
We've had an excellent instructor .........
Quote from: Dm on May 20, 2008, 10:46:15 AM
Saul should market his music for use at the Guantánamo Bay torture dungeons ........
Yes, you are the one who is handing cookies to the schmucks there...
Quote from: Dm on May 20, 2008, 10:47:20 AM
We've had an excellent instructor .........
Forcing the rhyme just a little, we can call this new thread:
Saul's Trolls!
Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on May 20, 2008, 10:12:52 AM
it made me laugh
it made me laugh, it made me cry........
(sorry, i couldn't help it)
my Tourette's has developed now to include longer sentences.
Quote from: Sforzando on May 20, 2008, 10:54:44 AM
Forcing the rhyme just a little, we can call this new thread:
Saul's Trolls!
Yes, everyone can have all the fun in one place now, instead of 50! :D
Quote from: Sforzando on May 20, 2008, 10:54:44 AM
Forcing the rhyme just a little, we can call this new thread:
Saul's Trolls!
Look whos passing through ... why its Sforzando the Troll!
(http://metropolitician.blogs.com/scribblings_of_the_metrop/_files_troll_2.jpg)
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 11:41:02 AM
Look who's passing through ... why it's Sforzando the Troll! [edited to correct punctuation]
Did you draw that with your computer program?
Quote from: Sforzando on May 20, 2008, 11:47:27 AM
Did you draw that with your computer program?
No, actually its a photograph I took of you, and I did use photoshop to enhance it.
Quote from: Don on May 20, 2008, 09:49:19 AM
Saul:
Many classical music lovers doodle around with composition and realize that they possess minimal inspiration in this field. You just haven't arrived at that point yet.
:D :D
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 01:54:02 PM
Don't knock off your socks....
He can't, I already took them off.
Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on May 20, 2008, 01:55:33 PM
He can't, I already took them off.
Hope you were holding your nose...
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 02:05:36 PM
Hope you were holding your nose...
Yes, I was, in fact, I held it so long that I dropped it into the ocean and it was eaten by sharks.
So now I can't smell anymore. Thanks a lot, Saul, it's all your fault.
Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on May 20, 2008, 02:11:06 PM
Yes, I was, in fact, I held it so long that I dropped it into the ocean and it was eaten by sharks.
So now I can't smell anymore. Thanks a lot, Saul, it's all your fault.
You throw it in the ocean and its all my fault?
Next time, when you hold your nose while you knock off someone's smelly socks, please do not drop your nose in the ocean...
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 02:54:12 PM
You throw it in the ocean and its all my fault?
Next time, when you hold your nose while you knock off someone's smelly socks, please do not drop your nose in the ocean...
Well, I only dropped it because I fell asleep listening to Discovery......
so it's all your fault. Really. ;)
Quote from: Sforzando on May 20, 2008, 11:47:27 AM
Did you draw that with your computer program?
No, I think that's from this great book: (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HRC1NV9JL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on May 20, 2008, 02:58:34 PM
Well, I only dropped it because I fell asleep listening to Discovery......
so it's all your fault. Really. ;)
Point taken, I did compose it as a relaxing piece.
Happy that you relaxed so much from it, good luck finding your nose...
Quote from: ChamberNut on May 20, 2008, 09:44:49 AM
Saul, do you by any chance know Naftali Schindler?
No, but I did check out his Myspace page, very interesting.
Quote from: M forever on May 20, 2008, 03:10:38 PM
No, I think that's from this great book: (http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HRC1NV9JL._SL500_AA240_.jpg)
I knew it wasn't an original Saul hours ago.
Quote from: Sforzando on May 20, 2008, 06:34:23 PM
I knew it wasn't an original Saul hours ago.
I knew you were a troll years ago.
Quote from: Saul on May 20, 2008, 07:12:05 PM
I knew you were a troll years ago.
I've only been here half a year.
Quote from: Sforzando on May 20, 2008, 08:04:45 PM
I've only been here half a year.
And you became so smart....
GMG must be doing something right.
Here is my arrangement of the Transformers soundtrack for piano.
Be easy on me, I didn't have the score, its entirely based on hearing alone.
I know I have to polish some parts, but overall I would like to hear an overall critic with some constructive points that might make this piece sound better.
Insults are old school, and only show the terrible personality of some posters, so comeon , its either you provide constructive critic, or say nothing.
Much thanks,
Saul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTPuxNF-MY
What is most impressive about the above, Saul, is that you managed to arrange over 9 minutes of terrible music. Is that constructive enough? :o
On a vaguely more serious note - although I don't know the music, the musical figurations in your arrangments seems very repetitive and quite dull - i.e far too much reliance on arpeggiated left hands or straight octaves etc. There are always ways of making music more interesting, even if the original bares no resemblance to anything like that adjective.
Fair effort, though.
Quote from: Saul on May 22, 2008, 12:05:05 PM
Insults are old school, and only show the terrible personality of some posters, so comeon , its either you provide constructive critic, or say nothing.
Much thanks,
Saul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhTPuxNF-MY
More! More!
Quote from: Norbeone on May 25, 2008, 08:24:01 AM
What is most impressive about the above, Saul, is that you managed to arrange over 9 minutes of terrible music. Is that constructive enough? :o
On a vaguely more serious note - although I don't know the music, the musical figurations in your arrangments seems very repetitive and quite dull - i.e far too much reliance on arpeggiated left hands or straight octaves etc. There are always ways of making music more interesting, even if the original bares no resemblance to anything like that adjective.
Fair effort, though.
Its just a sktech.
Not written down just trying to arrange the strings sounds on the piano. Naturaly, if I will want to make a serious arrangement, I will have to make it more interesting, especially the harmony.
Thanks for the comments.
Quote from: GGGGRRREEG on May 26, 2008, 05:11:17 AM
You want "Discovery 2 in Dm"?
Let him discover for himself..........Gregovsky............
Performing my arrangement of Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Best Regards,
Saul
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVyO69cljgg
ah, Tarrega - composer of the world's most recognised piece of music.... 8)
Quote from: lukeottevanger on May 28, 2008, 07:12:43 AM
ah, Tarrega - composer of the world's most recognised piece of music.... 8)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Patio_de_los_Arrayanes.jpg/300px-)
No, that's not what I meant (http://www.classicalguitarmidi.com/subivic/Tarrega_Gran_Vals.mid) (famous bit appears after a few seconds)
Quote from: lukeottevanger on May 28, 2008, 07:12:43 AM
ah, Tarrega - composer of the world's most recognised piece of music.... 8)
Yes, he was a great composer.
Lots of poetry and emotion...
Quote from: lukeottevanger on May 28, 2008, 07:21:20 AM
No, that's not what I meant (http://www.classicalguitarmidi.com/subivic/Tarrega_Gran_Vals.mid) (famous bit appears after a few seconds)
that's hilarious! After hearing it so often out of context, it sounds horribly out of place IN the music is was written! ;D
Is that a coincidence?
Quote from: lukeottevanger on May 28, 2008, 07:12:43 AM
ah, Tarrega - composer of the world's most recognised piece of music.... 8)
I know I've heard it as some little snip of computer music, where is it from?
It's the default ring tone of Nokia cell phones.
Wiki's page. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_tune) Particularly relevant round these parts:
Quote from: WikiAs of 2006, the pianist Marc-André Hamelin has been playing a short piece of his own composition that improvises on the Nokia tune as a concert encore. Written in a jazz-inflected style reminiscent of Poulenc, the piece is titled "Vals Irritation."[/url]
Quote
Yes, he was a great composer.
Lots of poetry and emotion...
Was that Saul channeling Operahaven . . . ? 8)
Quote from: lukeottevanger on June 25, 2008, 11:46:07 AM
Wiki's page. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nokia_tune)
Quote. . . and together they selected the excerpt that became "Nokia tune".
The selecting took
two of them? How
corporate . . . .