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| bio | website | franklinvp.com/music |
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| location | Toronto | |
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| visits | member for | 4 months |
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In December 2010 I started learning a bit of musical notation and theory on my own. As a hobby. And writing some little stuff in Sibelius. For example. I write mainly for myself but if someone wants to listen it is welcomed to do it, criticize, and comment.
This is to say that I know relatively little about music, performance, instrumentation ...
Therefore, I might ask questions that are about things that are basic, that any musician knows.
I am interested in writing mainly for acoustic instruments but it is not my goal to actually learn to play an instrument myself. I think it is too late for me to master an instrument. I didn't had the change to do it when I was young, so will let the computer and others play the music.
Still, creating music, writing it is such a wonderful experience that I can't escape the urge to do it. Thanks to computers I can now write my own music and listen to how it should sound. It is amazing how technology can open music composition from the realm of the gifted and learned to the hands of those that are not.
I get inspired by other musicians or by events in the world around me. I listen to something and then I try to recreate the idea I got from it. It could be just the first two notes of a piece. Maybe I like its combination and I start with them a theme that could turn out to be completely different from the one I listened to. My Huscrodalidas and the lily, came out in that way.
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Apr 21 |
revised |
How to play a song without making mistakes? added 455 characters in body |
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Apr 18 |
answered | Tension in hand while playing tetrads (4 notes chords) |
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Mar 10 |
comment |
What factors affect the loudness of a drum? Journal of the Acoustical Society of America / Volume 5 / Issue 2 Next Article Loudness, Its Definition, Measurement and Calculation J. Acoust. Soc. Am. Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 82-108 (1933); (27 pages) Harvey Fletcher and W. A. Munson, There is can be seen how ridiculous is the statement "The loudness is the amplitude of the vibration by the way." |
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Mar 9 |
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Orchestration and painting evenly over the spectrum added 477 characters in body |
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Mar 9 |
comment |
Orchestration and painting evenly over the spectrum Interesting. In Berlioz's example there is a moment in which some brass instrument plays low and a flute plays some high notes. Nothing else is playing. So, I suppose that would be a gap. On the other hand, the sound has 'depth'. I will add an analogy with painting that came to my mind right now. Maybe that conveys better the quality of the sound I mean. |
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Mar 7 |
revised |
Orchestration and painting evenly over the spectrum added 68 characters in body |
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Mar 6 |
asked | Orchestration and painting evenly over the spectrum |
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Mar 6 |
comment |
Difference between dissonance and clashing notes Dissonance between two notes can be defined as a property of the sound. I don't know how, but it is not completely clear to me that the same cannot be done for larger number of simultaneous notes. How consonance and dissonance are interpreted as pleasant or not, for example, is a different story. |
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Mar 6 |
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Music in your head added 172 characters in body |
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Mar 6 |
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Music in your head added 527 characters in body |
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Mar 6 |
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Music in your head added 192 characters in body |
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Mar 6 |
answered | Music in your head |
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Feb 15 |
comment |
How many bars can a clarinet sustain? Count means beat? |
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Feb 14 |
suggested | suggested edit on What factors affect the loudness of a drum? |
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Feb 14 |
suggested | suggested edit on What factors affect the loudness of a drum? |
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Feb 14 |
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What factors affect the loudness of a drum? Loudness is a subjective property. Therefore it not only depends on the drum, and the player (which was already said) but also on the listener. |
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Feb 12 |
answered | How to play a song without making mistakes? |
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Feb 12 |
comment |
Is it acceptable to play the same note sumultaneously on different strings on Cello? It gives an example that the idea has been considered acceptable by a renowned musician. It also explains what you achieve with it. You not only get a bit more volume but also, because of the different physical properties of the strings and the millimetric inaccuracies of the position of the finger you get extra little harmonics when the two waves get added together. |
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Feb 8 |
awarded | Scholar |
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Feb 8 |
accepted | Reverberation in a recording to play with big speakers in a hall |
