The Contrarian Contrapuntalist

[rwayland]

Well, I seem to have written another organ piece, somewhat unorthodox.


The Contrarian Contrapuntalist

Using GPO Organ.

Richard

[FLWrd]

You seem to? You make it sound as if it happened by accident...

I like the drive your pieces have. It's what gives them life. The dissonance can be a bit heavy on the ears sometimes, but the counterpoint (in particular the bass, I think) makes it interesting. However, it's the pulse, alternating between the voices, that brings your pieces to life. It's almost like a dance, bordering on swing. I liked this piece more than the previous one, perhaps because the harmony has more movement.

By the way, how many voices? I thought I heard a (high) fourth voice at one point, but it might just have been overtones.

[rwayland]

You seem to? You make it sound as if it happened by accident...

I like the drive your pieces have. It's what gives them life. The dissonance can be a bit heavy on the ears sometimes, but the counterpoint (in particular the bass, I think) makes it interesting. However, it's the pulse, alternating between the voices, that brings your pieces to life. It's almost like a dance, bordering on swing. I liked this piece more than the previous one, perhaps because the harmony has more movement.

By the way, how many voices? I thought I heard a (high) fourth voice at one point, but it might just have been overtones.

Not quite an accident, although I can't remember much about the writing of it. The disonnances can be a bit jarring or strident, but they really are essential to the music as are my idiosyncrascies of rhythm/pulsing, without which the music would be boring.

At the start, each hand is playing parallel fourths.. But I treat the fourths as single tones. So adding the pedal, that could be construed as 3 voices or 5 voices, followed by a long stretch of 3 solo voices, then returning the original voicing, except that in the final 3 measures or so, the pedals are sounding 3 notes (not difficult: left foot straddling c & d; riight foot on octave of the d).

Thanks for your thoughts. I am always pleased when my music is listened to and thought about.

Richard

[voclizr]

There is a pleasing "haunting" quality to this that I enjoy very much.
John B.