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Offline quantum

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Contemplation by twilight
on: October 06, 2010, 05:57:43 AM
...amidst the ambient light.  It is raining a bit. 
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Re: Contemplation by twilight
Reply #1 on: October 06, 2010, 02:14:55 PM
Your versatility is something to behold. Beautiful piece.  :)  *edit* I love the really dark and quiet tone color near the end, when it suddenly gets into more of a minor key.

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Re: Contemplation by twilight
Reply #2 on: October 06, 2010, 06:16:45 PM
A master speaks :)

No I'm not kidding :)


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Re: Contemplation by twilight
Reply #3 on: October 08, 2010, 08:00:42 PM
Thanks Derek.

Wolfi, this student is humbled.
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Re: Contemplation by twilight
Reply #4 on: October 09, 2010, 06:26:38 AM
Absolutely Gorgeous.
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Re: Contemplation by twilight
Reply #5 on: October 09, 2010, 03:22:55 PM
One of the most lyric and intimate improvisations I've heard here.  It has a lot of jazz chords but nothing you can categorize.  really unique and beautiful.

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Re: Contemplation by twilight
Reply #6 on: October 27, 2010, 11:41:57 PM
I think this is the gem of the set. It is exquisite in its harmonies, which are neither too acerbic nor overly lush, and in its understated phrases which are full of implication. Nothing here is gratuitously plopped in to fill time. It is my habit, every time Neil posts a set, to make a CD so I can listen several times at leisure through the hi-fi. The experience is invariably worth the trouble. Purely personally, I would place this piece together with the "March to School", in a very high category of improvisation.

Of course the stated image has been done to death by dozens of composers, famous and obscure. Some are a sight more effective than others and I have to say that, for what the comparison is worth, this has just as much of significance and beauty to say on the matter as works such as Bridge's "Dusk".
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Re: Contemplation by twilight
Reply #7 on: November 01, 2010, 05:13:26 PM
one word... wow :)
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