I've Learned to Say
Hey, everybody out there in Musescore Land!
Here's a piece I wrote a while ago. Any recommendations, ideas and criticisms are welcome and appreciated!
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Voices that are suspended usually resolve downwards except for the leading tone.
A sus4 chord is a suspended fourth which is usually prepared from the previous chord and is usually resolved to the third of the chord within the chord or the next chord.
Sus2 chords don't exist. You can however have a chord with an added 2nd or a ninth chord where the seventh is involved as well.
You have a few non-chord tones, like elevenths and thirteenths, which is fine for color, and fits very well in the right setting. However, on major chords, it's usually not considered kosher to have both the third and the fourth sounding at the same time. The fourth of a scale, in general, wants to resolve down to the third, so if you have both, it's a simultaneous tension and resolution.
BUT!
-- BIG disclaimer here -- if that's the color you're going for, more power to you. Music is art and the sky's the limit. As an artist, the only thing that should matter to you is whether the piece communicates what you want it to. If you want to write a simultaneous third and fourth, and that's the sound you're looking to hear, by ALL means, write it! And don't let ANYONE, EVER tell you different. (Unless of course, it's a publisher and your paycheck rests on the change they want you to make xD)
In reply to Non chord tones by denomonic
Just find another publisher.
In reply to Comment on the Disclaimer by Anonymous
Right, that's definitely what you should do if you're not already contracted to one. But if you are, you don't have that luxury :P
In reply to Unless contracted by denomonic
DON'T get contracted.
It seems like all of you know more about what I did than I do. XD
I appreciate the feedback, but as to publishing, this forum is the only way what I write gets out to the general public. I'm a little secretive like that ; )
I liked the light-and-airy sound of this ... a lot. I found that I liked it most, though, in places like around bar 33, where all three parts really "did their own thing" instead of having the second and third voices just double one-another on half notes. It was nice to hear silence for a bar, and the second and third voices coming to their common meeting-points in different ways, and so on. Which was, unfortunately to my ear, not typical treatment in this piece so far.
They're voices, not keyboards, so I cordially suggest that it might sound even better when each of them are given a clear opportunity to breathe, and not all at the same time. Now, the variations come, not only in sound, but also in time. (By which I do not mean "tempo," but literally, the passing of time.)