Adieu mon frère

Ian Moore

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I would like to share my music with you. I wrote this oboe and piano duet a few years ago. It is a short extract so you only hear the oboe. The score is very complex but the music doesn't sound difficult. It is beautifully played by Christopher Redgate.

 

Ian Moore

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I have updated my video. It now has a complete performance from beginning to end. It is a live recording. Please enjoy.
 

Krummhorn

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I must congratulate you for your ingenuity and creation. Certainly an original work, but not to my personal liking. Guess I'm too 'old school' in my ways.

I got weary of the interval jumps ... for me it lacked any kind of melodic theme, but perhaps this neo-classical?
 

Ian Moore

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Thank you for taking the time and trouble to make a comment about my music. I don't notice the interval jumps so much any more. There may not be a melody in the conventional sense but there certainly are recurring themes. For example, there is a falling arpeggiated piano chord theme which you might be able to see in the top left hand corner of the thumbnail picture above. The oboe has a repeating Bb note motif from which most of the oboe part is created. It's very hard to convince someone to listen repetitively to a piece of music that they haven't taken to the first time. But I hope you do.:)
 

Albert

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Ian, I hear a farewell to a lost brother in this music. I think it resonates the loss throughout. I hear cries of grief. I do like it. My wife would hate it. Chacun son goût.
 

JHC

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It did nothing for me sorry.
 
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JHC

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Classical from 14th - 15th cent to present day, Jazz, folk, kletzmer, not into pop or rock.
 

JHC

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When you say 'to the present day' which modern composers do you like (if you don't mind divulging).
I like some works but not all of the following:
James Mac Millan, Meridith Monk, John Cage, Steve Martland, Toby Twinning, Arvo Part, Gareth Farr, Robert Aldridge, Aaron Copland, John Psathas, Thelonious Monk, John Taverner, Alfred Schnittke along with some I can’t remember, also at concerts I have heard premier works from various composers which were quite forgetable. At the moment I am listening to Schnittke’s Concerto for mixed chorus,


I assume this will tell you something about my musical taste, btw what instrument do you play?

I forgot to mention that tonight I will be hosting a music evening and will present the Violin Concert in two movements by Edgar Mayer (a fantastic Bassist) performed by Hillary Hahn, I can guarantee it will go down quite well along with 'among other works' Elgar's Cello Concerto, LSO, du Pre the 65 recording.
 
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Ian Moore

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I like some works but not all of the following:
James Mac Millan, Meridith Monk, John Cage, Steve Martland, Toby Twinning, Arvo Part, Gareth Farr, Robert Aldridge, Aaron Copland, John Psathas, Thelonious Monk, John Taverner, Alfred Schnittke along with some I can’t remember, also at concerts I have heard premier works from various composers which were quite forgetable. At the moment I am listening to Schnittke’s Concerto for mixed chorus,


I assume this will tell you something about my musical taste, btw what instrument do you play?

I forgot to mention that tonight I will be hosting a music evening and will present the Violin Concert in two movements by Edgar Mayer (a fantastic Bassist) performed by Hillary Hahn, I can guarantee it will go down quite well along with 'among other works' Elgar's Cello Concerto, LSO, du Pre the 65 recording.
You have a wide musical taste. But am I right in thinking you avoid the 'avant garde'?
 

JHC

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You have a wide musical taste. But am I right in thinking you avoid the 'avant garde'?
As the jazz man said "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"
Most AG music lacks the basics that make music enjoyable to me and a lot of concert goers, I really can't say much more! and what is your instrument?
 

Ian Moore

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As the jazz man said "it don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing"
Most AG music lacks the basics that make music enjoyable to me and a lot of concert goers, I really can't say much more! and what is your instrument?
As a child, I learnt to play the tuba and the piano. But as an adult, I play a little bit of many instruments.
 

Ian Moore

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Obviously to me avant garde has got "swing". I certainly don't see much difference between J Coltrane and some avant garde music.
 

JHC

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Lets get back to AG music.
Do you mean ‘Avant-Garde Music’ as music that does not follow traditional methods if so in that respect you are partially right I don‘t listen to it twice, melody, rhythm, harmony and above all patterns have been the mainstay of western classical for a long time if these are present and recognisable in new music without needing a degree in composition most people will listen, if the music lacks this then you fight an uphill battle. You are right with Coltrane, I can take or leave him ... mostly leave.
 
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