Started studying two-part harmony again today, revisiting old chapters, and learned a whole lot of new stuff about dissonances and stuff that I had completely forgotten.
So I sat down with the theme to October Sky, which I thought was a nice exercise in two-part harmony, two violins contrasting against each other.
And then, as I listened to the original, I realized that it was slightly more than that (full string section actually), so having at least completed the exercise, I sat down to arrange something more full.
Doesn’t sound that bad, does it? (Remember, computer orchestra, and the sensitive instrument treatment of an industrial robot)
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It IS a nice sound :)Perhaps….it sounded that way to you today because you were…in the mood for potato chips? Electric sounds shouldn’t be on the same scale as a beautiful & finely tuned instrument anyway. It seems to have been a good exercise, regardless :)
Very sweet. It reminds me of Pixie Hollow and TV series set in the English or maybe French countryside.