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  • Prelude 1 - Claudio Santoro

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    Finally is finished!

    Prelude 1 by Claudio Santoro String orchestration - Dimension Strings!

    https://vimeo.com/129660179
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    I think you should give it some reverb so it all sounds further away. Also I think you should turn the high-end of the violins down a little.

    My opinions anyway. Other people here are more qualified.
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    Thanks for your reply, Yacob! I´m stil learning how to understand DS! Thanks again!
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    Hello Michael,

    For beeing a new user of DS it is quite well. I'm not usig DS myself yet and can't comment on a technical point of vew. I'd like say just two things.

    When sombody share a symphony or something else by L.Beethoven it's OK. But in case of Claudio Santoro, I would share some date of his life and most famous works.

    I'm so glade to hear this beautiful music and follow with score.

    As soon as I'll have a time, I'll find some other works to analyse. 

    The seecond thing is, there isn't a rest after the dotted crochets in all bars. I have a good monitors.

    Gukas Pogosyan 
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    Gukas Pogosyan

    Thanks for your reply!

    I only see Europe or US composer's here. Claudio Santoro is from Brazil. But the most famous composer is Villa- Lobos!

    The seecond thing is, there isn't a rest after the dotted crochets in all bars. I have a good monitors.

    Well, the reason for that it's beacause sound's more natural. It's like a breathing, sometimes is short and sometimes is long with descrescendo.

    That's the original version, see the phrase, is always on decrescendo!


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    Hello Michail again,

    and thanks for youtube information.

    It would be interesting for you to examin Ravel's piano work  "Le tombeau de Couperin" which made up with 6 parts and one of them is "Forlana", which Ravel orchestrated later. If you didn't analise it yet, I recommend stronly to do it. As Ravel was one of the best orchestrater in the World, you can see that piano work doesn't sound quite the same back again. 

    Have a success
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    Gukas Pogosyan

    Thanks for this lovely piece! I´ve heard the piano version as well the orchestrated version!

    But i don´t think i get your point. The structure of the phrase is very similar to the Santoro's piece. Similar cause have a upbeat (see the image on the attacf file). The orchestrated version has a accent, instead of tenuto on piano version. The melodic flow ends there. The upbeat starts then new one, that's why a litle "rest", for me is just a breathing thing. That's why i did that "rest" on dotted crochets my orchestration.

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    Hello Michael,

    In my first post I was tolking about a dotted quarter and one eight notes from two first bars betwin which you put a rest. In Ravel's Forlana, in the first bar there is a similar but different combination, a dotted one eight and sixteen which Ravel suggested to play with one bow. I would suggest you to borrow Ravel's bowing. Otherwise, the violin player will have to change bowing in the similar first two bars. In your Preludio, the first two notes quite obviously the bow will go down but later, in the second bar the same combination comes to bow up.

    May be you had something in your mind which I don't know.
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    wow the strings sounds really great, yes some more reverb can benefit the sound.

    good stuff
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    Gukas Pogosyan

    I see. I think a get it now!

    I was thinking on this bow (attach)

    mw design

    Thanks for your coments!
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