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« on: May 05, 2009, 08:00:13 pm »

Hey Vox! This is a little piece i composed today for a flute and cello student.
It was actualy finished as a cello prelude, but it worked well as an invention like 2 part piece.

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http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/flute-basso-continou-19893.html#post295070
Mp3:
www.myspace.com/simenn

Hope you like it Smiley
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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2009, 12:00:25 pm »

Hey Vox! This is a little piece i composed today for a flute and cello student.
It was actualy finished as a cello prelude, but it worked well as an invention like 2 part piece.

Score:
http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/flute-basso-continou-19893.html#post295070
Mp3:
www.myspace.com/simenn

Hope you like it Smiley

Hi Simen,

At least YCF is for some slightly useful purpose to period composers. It works great for posting music on.  Grin

Regarding your piece I really like the overall sound you've got going for a lot of it. My first suggestion would be again to create a score that has nothing to do with what you needed to make the mp3 sequence play correctly. So for example get rid of having BOTH a cello AND a continuo part since they're the same music! Your 6 page score will then probably fit on 2 or 3 pages and be much clearer to read.

Your opening themes sound nice but right off the bat you kind of shot yourself in the foot (hopefully all these American slang terms work for you!) because right in the 2nd measure you end up with parallel octaves between the cont. and the flute where they both go from A to F#. I think you could easily fix it though by just having the bassline play a D rather than the F# in meas. 3 so that your bassline would read, D-E-F#-G -F#-G  in 16ths. And though that immediately changes your theme I think looking ahead it will work for the flute too...

Looking ahead to meas. 14 you don't avoid a parallel octave there either just because the flute part has a passing D between the E and the C# just like the bass does  Smiley

After that my attention span for looking for errors starts to wane.  Wink At the final cadence however I'd suggest 2 things, First you really almost always in baroque need to set up a nice official IV V I kind of cadence with your bassline. The bass going up to the C# is probably going to come off sounding weak. Also I'd get rid of the odd rhythm you have the flute doing at the cadence. There's no precedent for it anywhere else in the piece that I see. Also timing-wise I'd strongly consider trying to get your ending to end on beat 1 of a measure rather than beat 3.

And FINALLY Cheesy If I were you I'd strongly consider transposing the entire piece up by maybe a 3rd or 4th. "C" technically is the lowest note on a flute but that doesn't mean they want to dwell playing way down there that much. And in reality you'll barely be able to hear the flute that low. Why don't you see how it looks being in F or G rather than D?
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« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2009, 01:28:41 pm »

Hey Vox! This is a little piece i composed today for a flute and cello student.

Hope you like it Smiley

OK, I've got some time to kill here so here's some more spots to check...

At the end of the 3rd measure  you have the same kind of slightly veiled parallel octaves where the bass does 16ths A-G-F# while the flute does 8ths from A to F#. The same between meas. 14 and meas. 15. Also from meas. 25 to 26.

Also from meas. 35 to 36, in that spot not only is there a clear parallel octave, but you might even have an effect of the D and C# trill lining up oddly with the 16ths going from D to C# at the same time. That's probably not a big issue, but again the main parallel octave from one meas. to the next probably is....

That's it without bringing out an even finer toothed comb  Wink

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« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2009, 03:14:58 pm »

Hey Grant!


Yes, young composers is very good for linking my score Tongue Good idea, i will do this in the futere, one score for recording and one for show off. Haha, yes i guess i blew the foot off at the start there. Thanks for pointing out the paralells, i will go over then and fix it.
I thought the lowest flute note was A (below the middle c) but ill transpose it to g major. so its abit higher, i agree that will sound better, so thanks for the tip. About the cadenza , i will change it to a IV V I progression.


Thank you for helping me out, i will take a closer look at this and fix it. Glad you liked the tematic material.


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« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2009, 07:30:15 pm »

Hi, S.

Watch out for the spelling: "continUO"
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« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2009, 06:27:54 pm »

Ohh, thanks! Fixed Cheesy
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