Notation Software Users Forum  


Go Back   Notation Software Users Forum > Musician community sharing > Share Your Music

Share Your Music Share your .not or .mid files of your arrangements or compositions.

 
 
Thread Tools Display Modes
Prev Previous Post   Next Post Next
  #3  
Old 02-27-2010, 08:35 PM
mgj32 mgj32 is offline
Senior User
 
Join Date: Jan 1970
Posts: 117
Default Re: The Santa Claus Sweater

Hi Sherry,
Where your feeling of nostalgia comes from, I couldn't even guess. Mine comes from the story of the title. I was putting something of Sara's into a memorabilia case when I spied the "Santa Claus" sweater I gave her for Christmas once and she wore every Christmas Eve since. I had been thinking, also, about the discussion in the Philosophy of Music section about the construction of melody. Further, I had been thinking of writing something I knew she would enjoy to commemorate what would have been our 48th anniversary, but had not yet had an idea. So the coincidence of the sweater, a desire to write something particular, and the discussion about melody construction is most of the story. The rest is the idea of building a melody, breaking it up into several (4 as it turned out) sections and doing a series of variations on each section; then putting them together to make several different, but obviously related, melodies (sections 5-7). Since it's all variations on a melody that is never stated, the true melody is never revealed. As far as I know, this is a new form, just as "The Search for Nelly Gray" is a different sort of oratorio.

I could send you that violin soundfont via gmail, if you'd like. It is about 1.3 MB. Working with the volume of notes individually can produce some very sweet sounds with this font. I have looked and looked for strings that don't sound as if every note is initiated with a new bow stroke, and this is the closest I've found. Before I do another violin sonata or concerto or string quartet, I am going to look into buying the collection that it comes from (I got it from a demo).

The piece has changed some (mostly with the addition of some additional piano accompaniment) since I posted it. I may have to reduce the master volume in Composer on some instruments and raise it on the clarinet before making a recording, which I intend to do on the first night I don't have to sweep up snow a couple of times. Hopefully, I'll get the "final" version on SClick within a week. Did I send you a facebook invitation? I'll put the direct link there right away, then go through my mailing list to make sure there aren't duplications.

BTW, "Birth" is still getting some play, though it has fallen from #11. I suppose I should take the Christmas things down until next December, by which time I may be able to upload re-recordings in higher quality sound. (I always save a raw wav, just in case).

My last concern about "Sweater" concerns the accoustic bass (which is the one instrument I've transposed, so far) which sounds an octave below written. I guess there is a tuning that would allow the highest note but it would take another to do the final note--the C1. Djim's advice: let the bass player worry about that. Have you tried the bass part and if so, what do you think?

Let me know about the violin font. Nothing else needs to be opened to assign a bank and preset ID.

Happy Spring,
Marv
Reply With Quote
 

Bookmarks

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT. The time now is 03:20 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Notation Software Germany GmbH www.notation.com/Imprint.php