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m1469
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1.18.08 -- Improv
on: January 18, 2008, 11:50:47 PM
Well, I am exploring a bit and I feel like posting this
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rachfan
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Re: 1.18.08 -- Improv
Reply #1 on: January 19, 2008, 04:44:09 AM
Hi m1469,
This is quite an improvisation--one of the best you've done in my opinion. Other than the date as title, there is no other hint about what the character of the piece might be. Yet it does seem to have a program--which is left to the listener to conjure. To me the imagery is that of an intercity train which makes several stops along its route, passing through great cities, bucolic towns, and rural landscapes, each with different moods and scenes. It's what Liszt would have called a "paysage". The train motif reminds me a bit of Arthur Honneger's, yet yours is very different and just as effective in its own way.
If I'm way off the mark, don't be dismayed. It's all in how music is interpreted in the ear of the listener. That's why, for example, Rachmaninoff admitted that his Preludes had programs, but would not divulge them, preferring instead that others create their own in the listening or the playing.
Good work!
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m1469
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Re: 1.18.08 -- Improv
Reply #2 on: January 19, 2008, 05:49:06 PM
Hi Rachfan,
Thanks for your comments. I had actually not thought of it in the way that you have described, but I think that is a fun way to consider it !
Thanks again,
m1469
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quantum
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Re: 1.18.08 -- Improv
Reply #3 on: January 22, 2008, 07:08:43 AM
m1469,
This is really cool. It sounds like you were very much into the music the moment it was being created. I rather enjoyed the way the contrasting sections weave into each other with such flow. Again you display your wonderful sense of structure in the way themes are presented and transformed.
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Re: 1.18.08 -- Improv
Reply #4 on: January 26, 2008, 08:19:29 PM
Quanty,
(okay, sorry, I couldn't help it ... it won't happen again)
Thanks for stopping by and for listening and commenting !
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