MIDI Studies A – Creative Project

Prelude No. 15 in D flat major, “Raindrop”
Jake Taylor
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For this assessment task I wanted to create an arrangement of a favourite Chopin Prelude of mine; No. 15 in D flat major. For most of the task I used Sibelius 4 to create the actual music. This is important to me, as I will certainly use if in the future of my compositional career. I began the piece with the strings, as they are the main basis of an orchestra. I found that the LogicPro Vi’s for strings, flutes, and brass sounded quite good however, the woodwinds such as Clarinets, oboes and bassoons didn’t have what I was looking for so I chose not to use those.

The piece begins quite happily, and moves through a rhythmical d flat major ascending scale. It then flows deeply into a very dark section, which is predominated by contrabass and violoncello. In this section I used staccato flutes and violins to complement the dark sound, which then progresses into a very large full orchestra moment.

In LogicPro, I panned each instrument to match an orchestra placement which I found on this website: http://www.rpo.org/s_7/s_8/p_6/Orchestra_Set-Up/. For the darker sound section I mainly played on the Novation ReMoteSL, as I know the song well on Piano already. To achieve the right colouration, I faded out the last note, and gave the appropriate tempo changes where necessary.

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