For Your Critique...

[Desplat13 1]

Here is a piece I have written. The mix is not completely finnished, but I would love to get your thoughts on it. I have been trying to get professional opinions on it, but thought it might be a good idea to get some views from a purely listening music fan's prespective (and, of course, any professionals here are welcome to comment). And don't be nice; I want to know what you really think.

For now, the title is "The Story". I have never been good at titles.

Here is the link:

http://www.badongo.com/file/8993794

Colin Thomson

Just after posting I realized that I needed to tweak the last few seconds a little. So here is the new but only slightly different version:

http://www.badongo.com/file/9005714

Colin Thomson

[Melange 446]

Very nice. To me, I could easily imagine the earlier sections of it scoring sections of a TV drama. An episode of Inspector Morse or something like that. About half way and onward it takes on quiet a different tone and it's hard to say if it is suitable as I don't know what the 'story' is supposed to be exactly. But I certainly liked the early sections of your piece.

[Desplat13 1]

Thanks. The only real reason that I called it 'Story' was because: #1 the melody that is played 3 times at the beginning and 3 times with variations at the end kept on sounding like the storyteller at the beginning and end, and acting as a bookend that way, and, #2 I couldn't come up with any better titles

So the story itself is very undefined. It begins with melancholy and depression, moves into a type of march using the chase motive from later, but it is more lighthearted, with lighter textures and the piccolo especially making it lighter. This is a sort of way of moving past the depressed feeling. As if another character has entered and created a spark of adventure. Soon danger takes over, and the chase then begins. After the danger motive is used to switch from the diminshed 7nth chords to major tonic key of C that I started in, I use the trumpet to reprise the storyteller theme.

Something like that. But I have always had a hard time defining my music.

Colin Thomson