I need a better title

[solarbird]

Until I get a better title, it's named "Leaves tossed about by a breeze in autumn," and is mostly in 3/4 time. In its current - arranged out! - form, it clocks in at right about 2:30, as performed about five minutes ago. I'll probably monkey with it a little more, I'm not happy with the first use of the C section, which sounds truncated. (But I don't want to elaborate further yet. That's for the C' section.

Approximate construction, hum, A, A', B, C, B', C' (extended), B', a very short D (possible bridge location), a brief revisit to B', C' (shortened), A' (inverted), A''' (based on an inversion of A). Basically it unfolds, does its little thing, then folds back up, like an origami music box. The first C is where I think it feels truncated. But I'll think about that more in the morning.

Hopefully it doesn't suck. Hey, music people, if want scans or something before Sunday, lemmie know.

I still need a new music icon.

guh 3am. G'night.

Comments

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

Hee. I like little box tunes.

[hubbit.livejournal.com]

Until I get a better title, it's named "Leaves tossed about by a breeze in autumn," and is mostly in 3/4 time.

You may hate me for this, but I'm actually singing "Leaves tossed about by a breeze in autumn" to several different melodies in 6/8. :) Probably nothing like the composition, either...

(Original version of this chopped off the "U" in the quote. Hey, SUP, how about putting in a feature that lets users edit their replies, rather than having to delete and repost?)

[solarbird]

hee, that does actually kinda work, doesn't it? i can think of a couple of fitting melodies too. that's funny.

i can edit comments i post. is that a paid-account feature only or some dumbass thing like that?

[solarbird]

For extra surprise, the more theory-literate members of the group have informed me that this is very clearly actually a piece in 6/8, not 3/4, which fortunately does not really change anything except time signatures and the way I bar some notes together. But it'll make the music easier to read.

[hubbit.livejournal.com]

There is a very old theory that I just invented, which states that any sentence or line written in dactyl meter is generally a good candidate for a 6/8 melody. :)

I don't know why, but I've always found music written in 6/8 to be easier to read* than that written in 3/4; one would think that they are fundamentally the same but I think working with 8th notes lends more flexibility. But to a point; I never found the same ease with music written in 9/8, which was popular in the late 19th Century.