20 Dec
2006
20 Dec
'06
4:54 p.m.
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 10:10:32 +0100
Thorsten Wilms <t_w_(a)freenet.de> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 11:09:02PM +0000, Folderol
wrote:
Well at least someone found SOME Chinese flavour!
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 ;) 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