The Skies Above

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The Skies Above
Posted by Tom Sullivan (Home page) - 23:09, 24 May 2006 -
My friend and I wrote this string quartet for our quartet to play and we were thinking of making a second version so if anyone has any suggestions we would be open to them.
Thanks from Tom Sullivan and Steve Tzeng!!

The link to the site is;
http://www.sibeliusmusic.com/cgi-bin/show_score.pl?scoreid=85008

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Tom:

Just some very very quick impressions and suggestions:

• One get the impression much of the time of piano centered thinking, very right hand left hand sounding at times.


• Too many doughnuts.


• Use passing notes between “chords”.


• Use chromatic passing notes, upper and lower auxiliary notes.


• Need more independence between the four parts (voices).


• Create a “dialogue” between the four parts, give and take.


• Thin out the texture at times, id est duets and trios within the quartet.


1. Viola + Cello Duet


2. Viola + Violin I


3. Violin I + Violin II


4. Et cetera.




• The viola, except for one section, spends the entire time on its lowest two strings, let it “sing” more.

Just some quick thoughts and ideas, maybe more later.

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