On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:10:32 +0100 Thorsten Wilms <t_w_@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:09:02PM +0000, Folderol wrote: > > > > It sort of conveys the idea of some sort of exotic caravan journey > > across the ancient middle east. A small band of friends maybe? > > > http://www.musically.me.uk/music/Orient.ogg > > > Chinese in the alps, I would say ;) Well at least someone found SOME Chinese flavour! > It's full of volksmusik phrases. If you want to get away > from that, you should perhaps study some to not do what > they do. > > 3/4 can only make it hard to get away from that. AFAIK > some belly dancing music uses wicked time signatures > like 9/8 or 7/8, so consider switching. > > The chinese touch could be emphasized by working > out the pentatonic character, I guess. > > Aside all that, there's some notes that drag against > the beat. This is quite deliberate and will need refining, but is done to make the melody sound more lazy, almost careless. I would like to thank everyone for their comments and suggestions ... even though they weren't what I expected! I have done more development and the music has rather taken control of the direction. I don't think it would have been a good idea to try and shoe-horn it into a style it didn't fit. I think that would have ended up as a, not very good not very oriental, piece. However in recognition of it's starting point I've renamed it 'East To West' and I won't even attempt to define a style for it :) There is still a lot to do. http://www.musically.me.uk/music/East_To_West.ogg No typos this time! -- Will J G
