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Offline ronde_des_sylphes

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Halloween improvisation
on: October 31, 2020, 10:14:03 AM
With images. Suitably spooky and apocalyptic, I hope  ;D

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Offline ranjit

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Re: Halloween improvisation
Reply #1 on: November 01, 2020, 06:29:20 AM
Nice variations on Dies Irae! ;D

Jokes aside, I loved quite a few of the arpeggio textures, and might steal them someday for my improvs.

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Re: Halloween improvisation
Reply #2 on: November 01, 2020, 04:16:39 PM
Great dark music!  Like how the various episodes keep referencing back to the theme and mood. 
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Re: Halloween improvisation
Reply #3 on: November 02, 2020, 10:37:59 AM
Nice variations on Dies Irae! ;D

Jokes aside, I loved quite a few of the arpeggio textures, and might steal them someday for my improvs.

I've used quite a few minor/ diminished arpeggios like G, C, (Eb) , F# to create a more malevolent mood, plus part of the point of what I've done is to utilise the Dies Irae and the tritone for purposes of musical symbolism.
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Re: Halloween improvisation
Reply #4 on: November 02, 2020, 10:41:13 AM
Great dark music!  Like how the various episodes keep referencing back to the theme and mood.

Thanks, yes, I've tried to do this without a definite structure per se but using motifs to maintain links and overall coherence. If I was to transmute this into a composition (which does cross my mind) I'd definitely do a bit of editing to make it a little structurally cleaner but tbh I quite like it the way it is, in the context of it being a spontaneous creation.
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