Concerto No. 6 for 2 Violins in E minor, Op. 12 - 1. Allegro

[@conradkaplan1579]

This, this is f*cking insane. I think you're one of the best modern-baroque composers I know on the internet scene

[@baroque4days]

Aaaaaa I am not used to such kindness. Thank you so much, you're really good to. I enjoyed listening through your works the other day. I honestly didn't expect anyone to notice this video at all, I feel so proud hearing this. Thank you so much, it's been so long since my baroque days, maybe I'll just have to write a second and third movement some day.

[@Nooticus]

@@baroque4days yes, do!!! You need to post this on the baroque composition subreddit btw!! or i could!

[@Nooticus]

NO FUCKING WAY!!!! The legendary baroque music from you returns!! I can finally add this masterpiece back to my playlist, I've missed it a lot! and can't wait to hear the second half now! Your work is so impressive and please know it was not in vain, you are extremely talented. Despite Bach being the master, not everything needs to be compared to him! And yes, I was here 1 minute after upload haha ;) I'm so happy the wait and work was worth it! When I listen to it I'll send another comment.

[@baroque4days]

I was literally in the process of copying the link and hunting the comment you left last time XD. Thank you so much for your kind words, I'm a little speechless reading this. It really means a lot, I'm not used to praise. I hope you enjoy it when you do get to listen to it. You might find it a little strange playing back given a few parts will stand out that had to be altered for the sake of counterpoint but, it's the same piece at heart. Also, a few bits which you will only be hearing for the first time now existed a month after my video was posted only in my final private mix back in May 2021 (which is why I took the video down as it had some old rough ideas rather than the final version I did in May 21 and I didn't want to go through the effort of making a scrolling score video until I finished it). But yes, now the entire thing is done and over 7 minutes long! Take care and thank you so much again. 💓

[@Nooticus]

@@baroque4days you're so kind you're very welcome! its also nice to meet a fellow Brit on here as well, i didnt realise you were until i saw it on your page today :)

[@baroque4days]

Didn't have a description on here until a couple days ago. Figured I should. But yeah, the channel has mostly just been a few unlisted shitposts and the odd more contemporary tracks I've made. Definitely will try to post more of my own stuff here when I'm done with it. Definitely should get the little baroque keyboard piece I wrote up too. I did have 3 Ouvertures (Orchestral Dance Suites) but I wrote them before I knew the rules of counterpoint so they are full of parallel 5ths and octaves. This concerto was pretty much the first I wrote after learning how it was supposed to work which is part of the reason why I got very disheartened. But Opus 13 which I wrote mid 2020 a few months after quitting the Concerto is quite decent. But yeah, for the most part, the most luck I've got with views is obviously all these Power Rangers score remakes. Not sure if you know the Fallout game series but the guy who wrote the music for stuff like Dragon Age, Fallout 3, New Vegas, 4, Starfield, Prince of Persia, a guy called Inon Zur actually did a huge amount of the music from the show so it's usually pretty great. Definitely always learn stuff from transcribing them by ear and working with my own libraries, stuff I can then apply to my own music.

[@Nooticus]

@ :)

[@ivanmusic1791]

Very nice work mate. Glad to hear you found the motivation, time and energy to finish it. The moment at 92 is something I always remembered since the first time I heard it, it's really cool, somewhat epic and eerie. Also the inclusion of the 32th notes is a nice idea. I think 64 is a big strange though, I think there is a better way around to go back to the theme. I hope you keep posting more compositions. Let me know if I can give some advice to find sources to study counterpoint.

[@baroque4days]

Bar 64 is almost comic to me now. A slightly awkward way of getting out of a tight spot I left myself in all those years ago. Tried to basically reference the circle of fifths progression in the theme and as said earlier, lean on the only two similar chords to E minor I could get out of the sharp keys in B Major and E Major. Excuse for chromaticism is, there's two or three other instances of it in there now so I'm going to shamelessly leave it in and call it foreshadowing XD. Still, it technically works even if a bit dodgy. Want to write the 2nd and 3rd movement with more of a plan XD.

[@Nooticus]

Absolutely agree with both points Ivan!

[@sigurdtheblue]

Ah, I thought you were classically trained to some extent. Really impressive knowing you are not. I guess I have to work on learning some things like you did. I thought this would just be a rearrangement of a classical song or something. I'm surprised you could work on something so big. Do you feel like it took too long considering all of the breaks?

[@baroque4days]

Thank you so much!!! Not trained at all, I pretty much just learned a lot by making orchestral music as a kid and ended up finding baroque music later on. Just learned mostly by listening and getting told what I was doing wrong by people until I eventually started getting it right. As for the other question, tt was more the fact that writing in this style kind of lends itself to being classically trained. I was learning the basics and jumped into the deep end. Got demotivated and sort of stepped away from it around the time Covid and lockdowns hit. Just got busy with life and work but came back to it a year later to do some big improvements, then just got burnt out and forgot about it. Was only a month or so ago I decided I should probably finish it. But yeah, it was kinda hard to get back into the mood given how long it had been since I'd heard it let alone wrote baroque music.

[@Nooticus]

Just got around to listening! Your command of figuration and melody is really really good!! but, there’s several instances where the harmony just doesn’t sit quite right with me and I believe these were all added in the most recent iteration of this piece., bar 63 as Ivan mentioned but also several other less jarring examples too. Still absolutely wonderful work, the only way to improve is to keep listening to baroque music and keep composing it!

[@baroque4days]

Bar 63 stands out too much to me as well. I'll look into fixing it eventually I think. Point out some bars if you can. It's a mess because you have some parts from 2020, some rewritten bits and a lot of stuff you heard originally in the April 2021 upgrade. As said before, I did a few things in May 2021 which I never uploaded so seem pretty normal to me. But the newer parts are growing on me. If we call 2020 V1, April 2021 V2 (the one I had posted), May 2021 V2.1, and 2024 V3 here's how it all works: 0:00 to 0:57: V1 originally with corrections made in V2 and more in V3. 0:57 to 1:02: V1 originally with corrections made in V3. 1:02 to 1:57: All V2 here, original version had some absolute ass episode which led directly into the G Major theme. 1:57 to 2:45: The reason I removed V2. All of this lovely stuff was V2.1 from May. 2:45 to 3:08: This is all new stuff from V3 I filled the awkward gap with to get back to G Major. Not super happy with some parts cough cough bar 63-64. 3:08 to 3:15: A tiny bit added on to the start of it in V2 but mostly all V1. 3:15 to 4:51: All V1, believe it or not. Bar 100/101 were improved drastically to change modality a bit. A lot of counterpoint was heavily improved in V2 which you would have heard. 4:51 to 5:07: V2 but everything from 4:57 onwards (bar 110) was left just the first violin part which faded out in my V2 video. V2.1 added all of the orchestral interjections, second violin part, the continuo. 5:07 to 6:10: All V2.1, a callback to earlier in the piece mentioned at 1:57 to 2:45. The major chord there before the fast runs was where it ended for 3 years before I made V3. 6:10 to 7:02: All brand new with V3. 7:02 to 7:42: V1 technically, just the theme again. As said before, lots of improvements in V2 and V3 to the counterpoint.

[@Nooticus]

@ that all makes sense! I can’t right now but if I remember I will let you know the other bars and bits that sound slightly unnatural!