Your Strangest Composition?

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Your Strangest Composition?

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petrat	Jan 24 2007, 01:40 PM Post #1
Unregistered	When in music college I was stuck for an idea for a theme for a composition and decided to use my supper as an inspiration! The piece was based around the notes E G G E G G C A B B A G E. The tutor thought that he recognised it as an American folk tune. Years after I found a tune called Phoebe in her Petticoats that sounded very like my supper tune! Has anyone ever used an odd idea for the basis of a composition?

sneekymum	Jan 24 2007, 01:43 PM Post #2
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 869 Joined: 18-May 06 Member No.: 6958	Tiddlywinks. It was an assignment set by my teacher for over Christmas. I had to write a piano duet (for two pianos) with a teacher part and a pupil part. The pupil gets to play just two notes by way of flicking the tiddlywink and the teacher tinkles it up the keyboard and lands it somewhere, mostly within a chord but occasionally in an unexpected place. And then the pupil flicks another, etc.. It's about teaching timing.

TSax	Jan 24 2007, 02:02 PM Post #3
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2617 Joined: 14-December 05 From: London Member No.: 5567	QUOTE(petrat @ Jan 24 2007, 01:40 PM) When in music college I was stuck for an idea for a theme for a composition and decided to use my supper as an inspiration! The piece was based around the notes E G G E G G C A B B A G E. The tutor thought that he recognised it as an American folk tune. Years after I found a tune called Phoebe in her Petticoats that sounded very like my supper tune! Has anyone ever used an odd idea for the basis of a composition? Nice idea - and all in CMaj7(13), might steal the idea for some inspiration in my improvisational meanderings tonight if that's OK with you petrat.

petrat	Jan 24 2007, 02:17 PM Post #4
Unregistered	(IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) Yes, go ahead! My supper would have been so proud.

jonscott14	Jan 24 2007, 08:07 PM Post #5
Prodigy Group: Members Posts: 1560 Joined: 14-December 04 From: Bratton, Wiltshire, England, UK Member No.: 2732	Im writing a strange one at the moment, weberish - for composition lessons - working with tone rows, and its quite horrible to listen to!

sonataform	Jan 24 2007, 08:19 PM Post #6
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 1-November 06 From: Argyll, Scotland Member No.: 8133	Piece for violin and piano based on the premier soloist's initials, three chords I made up and the attempt of a badly out-of-tune toy piano to play a scale of C major.

TSax	Jan 24 2007, 09:47 PM Post #7
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 2617 Joined: 14-December 05 From: London Member No.: 5567	QUOTE(TSax @ Jan 24 2007, 02:02 PM) QUOTE(petrat @ Jan 24 2007, 01:40 PM) When in music college I was stuck for an idea for a theme for a composition and decided to use my supper as an inspiration! The piece was based around the notes E G G E G G C A B B A G E. The tutor thought that he recognised it as an American folk tune. Years after I found a tune called Phoebe in her Petticoats that sounded very like my supper tune! Has anyone ever used an odd idea for the basis of a composition? Nice idea - and all in CMaj7(13), might steal the idea for some inspiration in my improvisational meanderings tonight if that's OK with you petrat. I had quite a lot of fun with this idea this evening - added some Tomato too in the form of rhythm!

Deborah	Jan 24 2007, 10:04 PM Post #8
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 5624 Joined: 16-December 04 From: Monsalvat, Valhalla Member No.: 2747	When I was a student, the carpet in my landlady's dining room had a random pattern of twelve squares, each with a different design in it. I equated each design to a pitch (so design 1 was C, design 2 B etc) and called this stonking work of floor-covering dodecaphonic music Magic Carpets.

guilmant	Jan 25 2007, 07:48 AM Post #9
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 862 Joined: 8-November 06 From: South West Member No.: 8200	Look in the Viva Organ section and you'll see a thread on music from the Sibelius website which I started. One of the replies pointed me in the direction of a toccata for organ based on the theme from Postman Pat! I also play an organ piece based on Daisy Daisy, giver me your answer do, its published by Stainer and Bell.

fsharpminor	Jan 25 2007, 08:43 AM Post #10
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 12247 Joined: 7-June 06 From: Wirral (originally Keighley, Yorks) Member No.: 7089	Someone should try to compose 'Variations on a Theme by Petra' !

Cyrilla	Jan 25 2007, 10:05 AM Post #11
Maestro Group: Members Posts: 11904 Joined: 9-November 03 From: Croydon, South London/Surrey Member No.: 99	QUOTE(guilmant @ Jan 25 2007, 07:48 AM) Look in the Viva Organ section and you'll see a thread on music from the Sibelius website which I started. One of the replies pointed me in the direction of a toccata for organ based on the theme from Postman Pat! 'Twas I! And a very good piece it is too! One of the RNCM students played it for a group of children when I was doing some teaching there last March. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

sonataform	Jan 25 2007, 04:11 PM Post #12
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 637 Joined: 1-November 06 From: Argyll, Scotland Member No.: 8133	QUOTE(guilmant @ Jan 25 2007, 07:48 AM) One of the replies pointed me in the direction of a toccata for organ based on the theme from Postman Pat! A friend of mine managed to include this in a performance of Kiss Me Kate, in which he was playing keyboards in place of a pit band. Another friend, who organised ceilidhs, incorporated part of Alfred Schnittke's Faust Cantata in an eightsome reel. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif)

Rosemary7391	Jan 25 2007, 08:28 PM Post #13
Virtuoso Group: Members Posts: 7834 Joined: 18-June 06 From: Durham Member No.: 7195	In theory lessons someone asked about a breve, and a conversation along the lines of 'What would a composition be like that only uses breves?' As far as I know I was the only one who tried (For an orchestra, I got one bar in a music lesson and relegated it to my folder. It'll turn up again when I find it when I remove everything from said folder adn throw most of it away)

petrat	Jan 25 2007, 09:48 PM Post #14
Unregistered	I like the idea of a breves only composition. If it was written without barlines and with plenty of rests of any value it could be great fun. Thanks for a good idea. I shall start tomorrow. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

nic	Jan 25 2007, 10:25 PM Post #15
Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 600 Joined: 26-October 06 Member No.: 8081	QUOTE(Rosemary7391 @ Jan 26 2007, 06:28 AM) In theory lessons someone asked about a breve, and a conversation along the lines of 'What would a composition be like that only uses breves?' As far as I know I was the only one who tried (For an orchestra, I got one bar in a music lesson and relegated it to my folder. It'll turn up again when I find it when I remove everything from said folder adn throw most of it away) I imagine it would be like many pieces by Arvo Part! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) .. whose music I absolutely adore!!

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