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Offline storyseller

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Handel/me: Passacaglia from the suite in G minor
on: August 08, 2010, 01:01:23 PM
After a year of obsession with Handel's G minor suite, and especially it's finale, the passacaglia, I've decided to step into deep waters and write my own set of "variated variations" to be played insted of ordinary repetitions. I tried to stay as close "a la maniere di Handel" as I could.

This was my first atempt to play in public anything written by me...

Comments are welcome as always.

Enjoy.

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Re: Handel/me: Passacaglia from the suite in G minor
Reply #1 on: August 08, 2010, 01:36:45 PM
I can't give you any musicologist's advice on this, but I really enjoyed it nonetheless! The variations seem to evolve very naturally, as they would in Handel's original. Good work.

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Re: Handel/me: Passacaglia from the suite in G minor
Reply #2 on: August 10, 2010, 07:06:45 PM
Really nice.  I loved especially the chromatic variations and the last hand crossing one.  Go ahead with this.  I would recommend you do a g major section of variations.  Also, I would maybe divide the whole set into 3 or 4 parts, where you close temporarily one part before going on to the next.  Know what I mean?   A bit like the bach chaconne.  But I liked it very much!

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Re: Handel/me: Passacaglia from the suite in G minor
Reply #3 on: August 18, 2010, 09:16:20 AM
Thank you both.

As I said I tried to make it sound as "Handelian" as possible.

Glad you liked it.

I'm acctually trying to write a second set of variations, little more bold this time, little more modern... There will be a major section in that one for sure  :)

We'll see.
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