On Wednesday 20 December 2006 21:54, Folderol wrote: > 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! Apologies for jumping in and updating the URL. Just trying to make it easier for folks to listen to your latest tune. Anyway Will, I like your rendition of Silent Night, especially the very nice key change in the last part of it. Thanks for sharing. Nigel.
