a little baroque trifle

[Derek]

Hello everyone, he's a short little baroque piece I wrote this evening. Comments? Request for sheet music? Ha, not expecting that.  I know its not Bach or Scarlatti, but...

https://www.personal.psu.edu/users/d/g/dga112/sonatainaminor.mid

I thought while I'm at it I might as well link you to my earlier experiment with baroque composition....

https://www.personal.psu.edu/dga112/sonatadminor.mid

If you want to hear the other one with a piano voice as well just let me know...

[pianonut]

very cool Derek!  it is deceitful in that you think it's going to be a fugue, but then it is a two part invention, and then turns into a comical development and ends with such a nice resolution.  yes, it's 20th century baroque with a twist of lime.

[Derek]

LOL I love your description of it. In fact, a reaction like that I think is far more desirable than:  WOW, IT SOUNDS *EXACTLY* LIKE BACH! 

When I wrote it I kind of just let the ideas flow in and out of one another, I had no consideration of like mood or contrast or continuity or form or anything, except a few general shapes and chord progressions I know that sound baroque-ish.

[pianonut]

take some theory and composition classes and keep on experimenting.  keep a diary because you never know when ideas will come to you.  i have scraps of paper everywhere and little half written (some fully written) songs, melodies, harmonies, ideas.  someday, when i have time, i will finish some of the chorale pieces.  i can hear voice parts better than instrumental parts (and ranges), but i suppose there must be a site to better familiarize oneself with all the instruments of the orchestra and listenable ranges.  is there?  say a midi site?

[Toivot]

I love this! 
Wish I could play it - *ha, ha*
Especially the ending appeals me