Just wanted a place to share the occasional piece.
This is my latest composition, Of Crime and Reverie. It's for a jazz orchestra (as distinct from big band) with some additional instruments.
Scored for:
Two alto saxes
Two tenor saxes
Baritone sax
Four trumpets
Four trombones
Four cellos
Bass
Drums
Percussion including timpani
I may yet tweak the final mix.
(Also, please don't read anything into the three K sounds of the thread title.)
Nocturne, UnmooredThis began as a standalone piece, but it became clear that it needs to function within a larger work.
For strings, flute, harp and a very occasional celeste.
I haven't listened to either piece, but I'm curious as to your own training as a composer. Did you study with someone privately or in college or both?
Also,
@Karl Henning has his own site where you can view his opus list and, in many cases, videos linked to a work so you can hear it, do you have a site dedicated to your own music?
I studied composition in college many years ago. Life took me to other places, and I largely stopped composing, but during the pandemic I rediscovered this aspect of myself and it came back in a big way.
No website other than my YouTube channel. I've considered marketing myself to local filmmakers and therefore would need to develop a website. I've built up enough pieces now, and with enough range and variety, that it's time to start doing this.
Quote from: KevinP on May 20, 2025, 12:16:49 AMNocturne, Unmoored
This began as a standalone piece, but it became clear that it needs to function within a larger work.
For strings, flute, harp and a very occasional celeste.
Lovely writing! Yes, this is the slow movement. What would a first movement, something to grab the listener's attention, sound like?
Thanks, Karl!
Sometimes one of the hardest challenges is writing movements that are varied enough to be independent and similar enough to fit together.
I do know it will be a chamber orchestra with one of each woodwind and brass, and that this slow movement will be marked by using even more reduced forces.
Quote from: KevinP on May 20, 2025, 03:39:36 PMThanks, Karl!
Sometimes one of the hardest challenges is writing movements that are varied enough to be independent and similar enough to fit together.
I do know it will be a chamber orchestra with one of each woodwind and brass, and that this slow movement will be marked by using even more reduced forces.
Good overall plan.
I listened to the Nocturne which has a most distinctively haunting atmosphere. Look forward to anything else along these lines!
Quote from: KevinP on May 20, 2025, 12:16:49 AMNocturne, Unmoored
This began as a standalone piece, but it became clear that it needs to function within a larger work.
For strings, flute, harp and a very occasional celeste.
Hauntingly beautiful! Thank you for sharing it...
Quote from: KevinP on May 20, 2025, 12:16:49 AMNocturne, Unmoored
This began as a standalone piece, but it became clear that it needs to function within a larger work.
For strings, flute, harp and a very occasional celeste.
Quite beautiful!
Not my composition, but a mock-up I did of one of Ellington's famous pieces. I realise this won't be to everybody's taste.