
Originally Posted by
Max Hamburg
Hi Tom,
This is a nice experiment, though it sounds more like a harmonic brass choir in a cathedral. To make it more thrilling, you could insert one or more distinct leading voices through every instrument (not just one solo like a trumpet) and weave some light counterpoint around it. There's nothing wrong with SATB-like music, quite at the contrary, but it makes the piece more to a hymn with an unusual harmony (which could provoke criticism by purists). I have no problem with 'free' harmony and parallel fifths, octaves... since Mozart used them regularly to obtain certain effects, so they can be very functional if used in a proper way.
But your experiment bears a lot of potential for further orchestration and playing with different solo lines and timbres. Putting the whole brass choir into one homophonic melting pot (with a lot of reverb) is only one option...
Please continu, it's absolutely worth it!
Jos
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