Morning Mood Duet (Excerpt)
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I have taken the liberty of leaving out a number of measures from the original, where in measure 38, I take a jump to the ending measures of the piece. I had thoughts of doing the entire piece, however, we like to keep our duets at no more than two pages, and to my ear, this seemed to be a logical place to skip to the end. I trust that Grieg won't roll over, and that the classical purists won't mind. It is, after all, an attempt to spread a little classical music around to people who might not otherwise come in contact with it. Taking a piece written for a 16-piece orchestra and cutting it down to two voices is quite challenging. I tried to maintain the harmonic integrity of the piece, and to select the most important second voice in arranging this piece. Also, I have dropped the grace notes that Grieg used in a number of places in the main theme. Grieg's direction for tempo is a dotted quarter note = 60. I have several recordings of this piece, and the conductors chose to play it at a slower tempo. I agree, and have set the tempo at 45. We hope that you will enjoy playing this piece as much as we do. Ralph Rayner |
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I was playing this duet with Notation Composer as the second voice and I realized that I had not left breathing breaks in the phrases where the slurs indicated they should be. As a result, when I took a breath, Composer kept playing. This doesn't sound very good, so I decreased the duration of a number of end-of-phrase notes. Reposted the file.
Ralph Rayner |
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Hi Ralph,
I'm feeling much more confident about scoring for recorder, now, thanks to your "challenge." Also with encouragement from this article in Wikipedia -- that I pretty much agree with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recorde..._instrument%29 So, here attached, please find a more typical recorder rendition of your score. The differences are:
Now the recorder has an inverted conical bore which attenuates the higher partials. I've heard it said that this accounts for the impression that they seem to sound lower. Thanks Walt |
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Thank you very much for your insight, Walt. Between you and Jane, I have expanded my knowledge of the Recorder considerably. Before these discussions, I was simply a saxophonist dabbling in self-taught recorder. After Jane showed me the error of my ways, I found that same Wikipedia article and copied the range chart from it for future reference. I don't have perfect pitch, so it didn't really sink in for me that, yes, the Soprano really does sound an octave higher than the notes I'm writing -- didn't even occur to me. I have a very nice (for me) Hohner pearwood Alto, and even with your enlightenment, I still am sensing that it sounds lower and more mellow than in your score. Funny what the human senses can do when interpreted by the mind.
As I mentioned before to Jane, even though I now know better, I will continue to score my duets as before. My feeling is that most of the participants in this forum are probably playing other instruments anyway and are changing instrumentation and transposition, etc. At any rate, I'm glad my writings have challenged you. Perhaps you will be scoring some pieces for two or more recorders to share with us? Thanks again, Ralph |
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