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Title: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on December 22, 2021, 04:26:00 PM
I changed my compositional ideas and so I start a new thread with this preliminary version of a piece for Piano 4 Hands:

https://youtu.be/w9GJRXByCq4

(Please ignore the notational inconveniences.)
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: krummholz on December 26, 2021, 04:00:20 PM
Quote from: Uhor on December 22, 2021, 04:26:00 PM
I changed my compositional ideas and so I start a new thread with this preliminary version of a piece for Piano 4 Hands:

https://youtu.be/w9GJRXByCq4

(Please ignore the notational inconveniences.)

Oooh.... REALLY like this. Love the cross-rhythms in the outer sections and the very spare textures midway. The dynamic contrasts really work for me. How was this realised? Notation software? DAW? (I assume not actual players, but maybe...)
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on December 27, 2021, 06:01:46 AM
Thank you! It was made in Sibelius + Noteperformer.
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: krummholz on December 27, 2021, 07:03:30 AM
Quote from: Uhor on December 27, 2021, 06:01:46 AM
Thank you! It was made in Sibelius + Noteperformer.

Exactly what I use... though I've not yet used it to write anything for piano. Good to know that such realistic-sounding playback is possible with it!
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on January 05, 2022, 05:46:23 PM
Something also very tonal but for orchestra:

https://soundcloud.com/richannes-wrahms/orchestral-piece-no-0
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on January 30, 2022, 11:53:35 AM
Same thing but (rather unreadable) score video:

https://youtu.be/kQSy6cYdlJc
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on May 15, 2022, 07:50:25 PM
For small orchestra, this came out

Modes of Accord: https://soundcloud.com/richannes-wrahms/modes-of-accord-preliminary-version

It flows and modulates mostly between the tone centers A, C, F, G and D.
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: krummholz on May 22, 2022, 08:54:02 AM
Quote from: Uhor on May 15, 2022, 07:50:25 PM
For small orchestra, this came out

Modes of Accord: https://soundcloud.com/richannes-wrahms/modes-of-accord-preliminary-version

It flows and modulates mostly between the tone centers A, C, F, G and D.

I like it! It gradually develops into a livelier and livelier contrapuntal tapestry, in places very Bach-like. The ending was very much not what I was expecting though, seemingly very unresolved. Was that intentional?
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on May 23, 2022, 02:59:37 PM
Quote from: krummholz on May 22, 2022, 08:54:02 AM
I like it! It gradually develops into a livelier and livelier contrapuntal tapestry, in places very Bach-like. The ending was very much not what I was expecting though, seemingly very unresolved. Was that intentional?

Your joy is welcome.

I accepted some chords in the vocabulary that would classically need resulting because of the tritone in them or have (not very conflicting) extensions, I mostly did avoid unprepared semitones or equivalent.

My intention was to end playfully in a major mode of A (think I ended up choosing the acoustic scale) since the piece begins in A Aeolian.
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on May 25, 2022, 09:12:41 AM
A little experimenting this time.


Ritual prayer (for large orchestra): https://soundcloud.com/richannes-wrahms/ritual-prayer
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on June 11, 2022, 12:15:45 PM
I may end up adding more counterpoint to this later, but for now:

Night, Day, Eve (for orchestra): https://soundcloud.com/richannes-wrahms/night-day-eve
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on June 27, 2022, 04:38:08 PM
Some crackhead stuff which is probably not playable anyways.


Mixed Septet: https://youtu.be/-h0roOay8hU
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on March 06, 2023, 03:11:10 PM
So I wrote the complete first draft of a sonata-form-like movement for Chamber Orchestra

Symphony in Gold and Silver
 (https://soundcloud.com/richannes-wrahms/symphony-in-gold-and-silver-first-draft?si=b7795e3f8c954d51bdabc16d4380bac9&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing)
Exposition:
A is polychords from F, C and G Lydian.
B is dobled melodies from polychords of G, Bb and Db Dorian.
C is textures from polychords of B, C and C# Locrian.

Development:
1. a few A tutti chords to close the exposition and open the development
2. A+B juxtaposed
3. A+C juxtaposed
4. A+B+C tensely juxtaposed
5. A+B+C integrated resolutely in a "collective agreement" mode based on E Lydian, ending in a little cello solo epilogue.

Recapitulation order: C-B-A
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on March 11, 2023, 07:05:34 PM
Polyphonic version for Large Orchestra

 
Title: Re: Uhor's new desk
Post by: Uhor on December 17, 2023, 07:49:10 PM
Another one I'm proud of: