Mystic Dance

[remmet]

Please go here:
http://www.richardemmet.com/listen.html

and find "Mystic Dance" under the Orchestral heading. Thanks.

Richard

[Phantom]

this is remarkable and every sound is authentically balanced out

just in my opinion (no bad notes to say)

but most of the time it's just fast steps up and down.
it certainly goes well with the title but also sounds like a performance to show what the instruments are and how they can be played

Maybe I feel this way because I prefer movie scores than full orchestral tracks like these, but I am trying hard to do music like this and your piece is great to learn from.

Wonderful work.

That is just a personal note. But I like the way you did that nonetheless.

It's fast, jumps at you, and it keeps you waiting to know what's coming out the next corner

Great work!

[Ecliptic]

Hi Richard,

your "Mystic Dance" is a very nice piece. The orchestration is great indeed.
I like everything here, but above all I like the piano with mallets and the woodwinds parts.
A great work.

Cheers

[Counterpoint]

Hi Richard,

The piano sounds awesome, and it's very well orchestrated. Overall quite fun to listen to!

Some of the orchestral instruments (brass especially) sound a bit strange at times IMO.

It's a really neat little tune though and the piano + mallets are pure magic, as Ecliptic pointed out. :)

Addendum: Are you planning to print this off and have it performed live? It would make a really neat concert piece, very interesting to listen to, and a real challenge to play with all those fast notes.

Cheers,

- Matt

[remmet]

Thanks for the feedback. This music actually originated almost 20 years ago as a purely electronic piece. After getting the EWQLSO library, I wondered if I could tame and transcribe the 80+ original midi tracks and turn them into a real orchestra piece. Maybe sometime I'll post the old electronic version for comparison.

Hi Richard,

Addendum: Are you planning to print this off and have it performed live? It would make a really neat concert piece, very interesting to listen to, and a real challenge to play with all those fast notes.

Cheers,

- Matt

Absolutely! This is exactly what I'd like to do. Ultimately, I plan to combine "Mystic Dance, my other recent piece, "Riffin' the Night Away," and two other yet-to-be-written pieces and make an orchestral suite out of them. I'll probably need to run some of the harder parts by a few players just to make sure I haven't written anything impossible. And then I'll attempt to get it played for real.

By the way, I tried to orchestrate "Mystic Dance" so that no one player or section would have to play too many fast notes in a row. With headphones, it's easier to hear that the notes are being passed around all over the place. The piano part has a couple of very fast extended sections, but what the heck, they're used to it. (Just hold down the pedal, let your fingers fly, and hope for the best.)

Richard

[DallasComposer]

Remmet,

Wow, very impressive. I’m not much for giving detailed critiques (unless I get paid .. lol)
and I don’t really tend to care so much about the midi details but compositionally, very, very impressive.

I looked at your website and you have definitely been around the block a few times and man I bet you have some stories to tell. I love it.

Glad to have you on the forum and look forward to hearing more.

I love riffin’ also BTW

[remmet]

Remmet,

Wow, very impressive. I’m not much for giving detailed critiques (unless I get paid .. lol)
and I don’t really tend to care so much about the midi details but compositionally, very, very impressive.

I looked at your website and you have definitely been around the block a few times and man I bet you have some stories to tell. I love it.

Glad to have you on the forum and look forward to hearing more.

I love riffin’ also BTW

Thanks DH. I appreciate your comments. And yeah, I suppose I've got a few stories from my trips around the block. You never know where life will take (or leave) you.

By the way, you had some interesting things on your website too.

Richard