Jingle Smell
This morning I had some time to throw into the bin, so I put together this silly jingle. I think I'm going to play it with my pupils at school, one day or another -- soprano recorders and electric piano. One has to give vent to his cruelty, every now and then. :)
P.S. As my perversion knows no limits, I made two versions of the jingle -- the "original" one is in C, the other in F.
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Comments
it's cool that you can compose something and then hear it performed, if only by a group of students. i took a music comp class in college but never completed anything. so when the end of the semester came and everybody had musicians playing their compositions, i had nothing. i'm going to change that someday.
i think the simplicity is a strength, and i felt the melody was logical in the way it unfolded, esp. the B section. you hit the accented note at the end of the bar, and then at the end of the next one, another accent. for me these tied it together and gave it unity. i also liked that you had eighth notes in the melody and then the next beat the piano played eighths. dynamic, like the instruments are reacting to each other.
you have three chords that end the song. you wrote the first of these as staccato. what about the next one also being staccato? that's just what my ear tells me. what kind of music do you listen to?
In reply to knows no limits by genesis_piano
I'm not an academic, nor professional composer, but I try to put some "brain" into my little creations, even when they are short and silly like this one. As you wrote, it's an A-B-A, 4+4+4 structure. As you wrote, I looked for interaction between the two parts (three, if you consider the left hand as an individual bass part) shifting articulations and accents in a answer-and-reply fashion. In measures 4 and 12, I feel the second chord as naturally "tenuto", sort of an emphasized preparation of the last one. I usually don't notate articulations and let the performer do what he/she likes. This time I was exploring some "unknown" features of MuseScore, so I decided to write accents, dots and slurs, but take them as nothing more than mere suggestions, and change them as you like.
Oh, do you like the title, "Jingle Smell"? As an Italian self-taught English writer, I feel rather proud of my silly puns! Low end humour, you know. :)
In reply to Re: Knows No Limits by Aldo
you wrote: As an Italian self-taught English writer, I feel rather proud of my silly puns! Low end humour, you know. :)
low end is the best kind. i'm a pun guy myself. at least, that's what my mom always told me. that i'm a lot of pun.
In reply to jingle spell by genesis_piano
I see that your sense of humour digs at least as deep as mine! Good news indeed! :)
In reply to knows no limits by genesis_piano
I forgot to tell you that I'm particularly fond of progressive rock of the early Seventies. Have you ever heard of legendary groups like Genesis, Gentle Giant, Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, Emerson Lake & Palmer, King Crimson, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Yes, and so on? If not, have a ride on YouTube and listen to some of their works, you are not going to repent.
In reply to Favourite kind of music by Aldo
i will definitely try that journey. i knew two of the many bands you listed, so it will be a learning experience for me.
look forward to your next piece.
Since this jingle has a very classic ABA structure, you might want to try repeats there.
Like AABABA. Either just by putting the repeat signs in the score or write out the repeats with a slight variantion. Like A - A' - B - A - B' - A'.
In reply to Classic by jotti
Mmm... there are so few ideas in my melody, that I think repeating would give just one result -- immense boredom! Variation could help to mitigate the effect, that's for sure, but one should use tons of it. Maybe one day I'll pur my hands again on this stupid jingle, but not right now. Anyway, I would be happy to listen to your variation on this silly theme -- come on! it's Pubblic Domain.