"Horn Quartet Number Five"

**Larry G. Alexander** · 02-01-2007, 07:51 AM

"French" Horn Lovers, (It's not really French, you know.)

I wrote "Horn Quartet Number Five"this morning.

I love the majestic sound of the horn. There's nothing quite like it.

Regards,

Larry

**jaynkate01** · 02-01-2007, 11:09 AM

I like this. French horn is one of my favorite instruments. GPO french horns sound very good to me. Now I want to write a horn quartet. You are something else, writing all of this in one morning. Sheese!!! Anyway, as usual, thanks for posting.
-Jay

**Larry G. Alexander** · 02-01-2007, 11:47 AM

Originally Posted by jaynkate01

I like this. French horn is one of my favorite instruments. GPO french horns sound very good to me. Now I want to write a horn quartet. You are something else, writing all of this in one morning. Sheese!!! Anyway, as usual, thanks for posting.
-Jay

My pleasure, Mr. Jay. Thanks to you for listening. (Actually, it required about an hour.)

My best to Miss Kate.

Larry

**Jim Clark** · 02-01-2007, 01:32 PM

I love the french horn too, Larry! You have music in your soul, my friend. Thanks for this.

Regards,

Jim

**Larry G. Alexander** · 02-01-2007, 01:59 PM

Originally Posted by Jim Clark

I love the french horn too, Larry! You have music in your soul, my friend. Thanks for this.

Regards,

Jim

Well, I am pleased as punch that you like it, Mr. Jim. Thank you, Son, for listening.

Best regards,

Larry

**fastlane** · 02-01-2007, 11:36 PM

As a former horn player I did enjoy this one. I see John Williams wrote a horn quartet piece for one of the Harry Potter movies.

Yours was much better.

One thing though was that the volume on this one is a little low. Your files are always right up there so I thought I would mention it.

Phil

**Larry G. Alexander** · 02-02-2007, 05:41 AM

Originally Posted by fastlane

As a former horn player I did enjoy this one. I see John Williams wrote a horn quartet piece for one of the Harry Potter movies.

Yours was much better.

One thing though was that the volume on this one is a little low. Your files are always right up there so I thought I would mention it.

Phil

Thanks, Mr. Phil. The low volume happened during the conversion to mp3. I don't know the reason.

Regards,

Larry

**Sleutelbos** · 02-02-2007, 06:27 AM

Hey Larry, I digged that piece.

I'm not at all experienced with this kind of music, so take it with a grain of salt, but in a way it seemed kinda 'one level' all throughout. Almost as if you wrote this in Sibelius or something and exported it without doing too much with the velocity/accentuation options of GPO.

I hope you don't mind me whining about it, but harmonically and melodically this piece truly is good and it seems a shame that you don't really get everything out of it using the dynamic capabilities of these instruments.

Anyway, good work nevertheless.

**Larry G. Alexander** · 02-02-2007, 07:11 AM

It is exactly as I wish it to be! Sounds just right to my old ears. I wouldn't change a thing. Period. Exclamation point.

Nevertheless, thank you for your comments.

Larry

**etLux** · 02-02-2007, 03:52 PM

Gosh, you've been busy while I had my back
turned for a few days... lol.

This piece is, to my ear, surprisingly unAlexanderian
in many ways... and quite handsome... there's
a reflective, faintly melancholic aura to it that
suits the horns beautifully.

Although it seems more preludial in its hymn-like
architecture and demeanor, I could see where
this would work wonderfully in a suite quartet.

Strong, moving work, Larry... almost Brucknerian
in its quiet strength. I hope you'll go further in
this style.

David
www.DavidSosnowski.com
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