My Compositions

[Cryranos]

I'm going to use this thread to store my compositions now, I have five of them at the moment. Now I have streaming!

(Beware: the midis seem to throw a fit with some of the stuff I put in. My softsynth coughs a lot during the quartet.)

Spoiler: Cello Sonata No. 1 in F♯ minor, Op. 1

I. Allegro Molto [6/8 in 2. ~144 bpm, F♯ minor (harmonic)]
II. Adagietto [2/2. ~60 bpm, F♯ major] "Rondo"
III. Largo Lacrimoso [4/4 ~60 bpm, F# minor] "Elegy"
IV. Allegro Molto (come prima) [6/8 in 2. ~144 bpm, F# minor (harmonic)] "Burlesque"

The first movement introduces the motif, which is pushed aside for the light-hearted Rondo and the grave Elegy, each which introduce a new motif or two (which are reused in my quartet). The final movement recaps the original 6/8 motif as well as adds more, and ends in a recap of the motif in the instrument's highest octaves. (the last two notes cut off on my computer, though)

Cello Sonata No. 1

Spoiler: String Quartet No. 1 in C Major, Op. 2

I. Moderato [4/4. ~100 bpm, C Major] "Perpetuo Pizzicato" (second movement of the sonata for cello)
II. Grave-Allegro Molto-Presto [4/4, 2/4. ~50 to 144 bpm, C minor to C Major] (based on the third movement of the sonata for cello)

This piece reuses and expands the themes from the inner movements of my Sonata for Cello. I think that the first movement captures the light spirit that I strove for the first time I used the theme. The second movement starts out with the main themes of the sonata, but eventually picks the pace up for a faster and lighter variation, and ends with 24 measures of C major chords. :3

Note: The melody might start to sound odd around 7"00', there is supposed to be glissando in the melody but it gets lost somehow. The second repetition of that theme should sound better.

Quartet No. 1

Spoiler: Invention No. 1: Chanson Triste for Piano in B minor, Op. 3

Andantino-doppio tempo-Largo risoluto [4/4, 2/4, 4/4. ~80, 160, 60 bpm, B minor to Bb minor to B Major]

I tried for an introspective piece on the piano. It symbolizes inner conflict. I have now called it Invention No. 1 because it fits the basic description of the form.

Invention No. 1

Spoiler: Melancholy Suite for Strings "The Tragic Hero", Op. 4

A little suite I wrote for practicing and learning what different chords sound like in different keys. It follows the story of the archetypal tragic hero.

Tragic Hero Suite

Spoiler: Invention No. 2: Rhapsody for Piano in C minor, Op. 5

Another short piano piece.

Invention No. 2

Tell me what you think please!

 

[moog]

anyway you could stream it dude? Id rather not download it.

 

[Cryranos]

one of each is a .mus file and the other is a midi.

My connection is way too slow to upload a mp3 and I have no idea how to stream a midi

 

[Holk]

Try getting dropbox, or using box. No offense, but I'm not waiting 60 seconds for rapidshare to listen to a midi file.

 

[moog]

one of each is a .mus file and the other is a midi.

My connection is way too slow to upload a mp3 and I have no idea how to stream a midi

Well, a) theres no point in uploading a mus file, since a majority of the memberbase doesnt have or use finale. (I do, but many dont.)

and b) use bb.xieke.com. It should be helpful. If its still too slow, i will upload streaming for you

 

[Gulch666]

ok, well, there was about 3 minutes of the whole thing i liked, the first part, and some of the last few minutes, there was a whole lot of slow uninteresting simplistic filler in the middle.

i hear a few problems thru the whole thing, mainly being the volume of things, i see where youre going with it, quiet building up to louder hits and stuff, but it feels spastic, too quiet, then much too loud, and for the most part the song sounds too.. chunk, chunk, chunk...doesnt flow like it should, the piano is too abrupt, the accents are too accented and the volume changes like i mentioned seem, in places out of place and too extreme. i would say that with some time the song could mature into something decent but as it stands i feel its pretty boring. for example the 3rd? part, you have the interesting first section, then the piano chord part after that, that feels too rigid, then the part thats a repeating 4 note scale for like a minute strait, thats very very simplistic and drags on, that part, feels very unfinished, like its missing 2-3 parts that go with it.

sorry if i seem harsh, but im just pointing out areas for improvement

 

[Cryranos]

I completely understand about the extreme accents. I've toned them down and it sounds better (listening to it on a good sound system made me realize this within the first two minutes).

However, I've had too many people tell me how much they loved the third movement to change the melody, although I have cleaned it up quite a bit, especially with the dynamics and chord intervals as well as my accents.

It is still a work in progress, and now I'm revising it alongside my Op. 2 which shares the motives of the middle two movements and expands and mixes them around.

Overall, I have improved it vastly from where it was when I posted it (although most of these improvements are in the outer movements).

Once I have internet on the computer on which I do my composing again, I will try to upload mp3s overnight or something.

-Happy Igor Stravinsky Day!

 

[boon]

one of each is a .mus file and the other is a midi.

My connection is way too slow to upload a mp3 and I have no idea how to stream a midi

Well, a) theres no point in uploading a mus file, since a majority of the memberbase doesnt have or use finale. (I do, but many dont.)

and b) use bb.xieke.com. It should be helpful. If its still too slow, i will upload streaming for you

I have finale ;¬;

 

[Cryranos]

I've added streaming as well as two more compositions to the first post.

 

[Cryranos]

Bump

I've added another song.

 

[Cryranos]

Does anyone else have anything to say about my Opp. 1, 2, 3, or 4?

 

[Cryranos]

bump, i've added another piano piece.

 

[clea]

Hey, I've listened to your song :

invention2, it feels kind of arabic. Do you play it live? So many notes, it's overwhelming.
I enjoyed some parts of this song, but since classical is not my thing, I don't really know how to say it, but I feel that it should be "smoother" and "more balanced" somehow

i'll listen to other songs sometime later

thanks for sharing ^ ^

 

[Cryranos]

No, I can't even play piano (until right before I posted it, I actually had both hands playing a single key at the same time without realizing it. :/), yeah there are lots of notes.

Really I called it Rhapsody because of the spontaneity, so I understand what you're talking about.

 

[Cryranos]

bump