Vienna Symphonic Library Forum
Forum Statistics

181,835 users have contributed to 42,188 threads and 254,610 posts.

In the past 24 hours, we have 4 new thread(s), 30 new post(s) and 53 new user(s).

  1. Home
  2. Orchestration & Composition
  3. Your Music
  4. Paul Hindemith: English Horn Sonata - Scherzo

  • Paul Hindemith: English Horn Sonata - Scherzo

    S
    S

    Hi

    I've been exploring the English Horn (Viennese) and the Bösendorfer (Special Edition) with this short piece by Paul Hindemith.

    https://soundcloud.com/stefan-telser-1/scherzo

    I was recently very impressed by some compositions and arrangements  in the this forum that featured chamber-like music. Putting the focus on single instruments, rather than big ensembles.

    I think it is really difficult to achieve good results in this kind of midi performances. Still I wanted to give it a try.

    As reverb I used MIR24 -Synchron Stage Vienna.

    Best Stefan
  • P
    P
    last edited
    last edited

    Excellent performance. Soundscape seems great. It is just way too short! 😊

    Paul
  • Fabio BiolcatiF
    Fabio BiolcatiF

    I just started this year's Christmas day with 0:47 of really fine music.

    VI Special Edition 1-3, Reaper, MuseScore 3, Notion 3 (collecting dust), vst flotsam and jetsam
  • S
    S

    Hi Paul and Fabio!

    Thank you very much for listening and commenting!

    The piece is very funny and joyous indeed. And the VI English Horn is really great.

    Currently I prefer short pieces. Besides that I really like short stuff, I'm afraid that my (so far) complicated and unefficent workflow wouldn't apply to larger and more complicated setups.


    I kind of  blunder through Siblius, Cubase and Melodyne (back and forth). I use Sibelius because I never got used to the piano roll editor and prefer a notation systems. Furthermore - if there are  instruments playing the same line - I find it much easier to just copy&paste articulations and dynamics between systems. With expression maps I find it much harder to apply the same articulation setup to multiple tracks quickly. In Meldodyne I control the vibrato on the long notes and Cubase I use for the final mix. As for the articulations of the VI instruments I'm still uncertain which to use when, and there is too much trial and error involved. So short pieces are very managable for me. With longer and more complex pieces I would get lost pretty soon I guess.

    Best Stefan
  • W
    W

    That sounds excellent, very natural. Is that piece actually that short?  I really like Hindemith's music.   I agree how doing chamber works with MIDI can be much harder than large orchestrations.   
  • S
    S

    Hi William,

    thank you for listening and your comment!

    The English Horn Sonata consists of several parts: 1. Langsam (nicht schnell) 2. Allegro pesante 3. Moderato 4. Scherzo, schnell 5. Moderato 6. Allegro pesante

    Altogehter it runs for aproximatly 10 minutes. Currently I'm working on Part 1 "Langsam". I find it very difficult to find a meaningful phrasing *and* doing the MIDI Programming.

    The samples (English Horn Viennese and the Bösendorfer) are really great and so is the MIR System.

    Though I'm still struggling with what software (DAW) to use.

    Best Stefan
  • PaulP Paul moved this topic from Orchestration & Composition on