Prelude and two Minuets for Ori / Omer Katzir

First of all, forgive my poor video editing skills, I’m not a video editor, so every video I upload is a challenge, this one was even more challenging because it’s not one musical piece, but three! That been said, let us start. As the name suggests, this work start with a prelude followed by two minuets, a major one and a minor one.

A note about interpretation and articulation

I usually don’t include any articulation marks or any instructions on my music, I leave that to the performer, whoever that may be. Tempo comes in first it’s 100 for the prelude and 90 for the minuets but it’s should actually be moderato (i.e. 108-120) As for articulations, whatever sounds good for you, is probably right, just don’t go too crazy and articulate every single dotted note. In my mind, articulation should be done gracefully.

An error

At the end of the first Minuet, there’s a repeat missing (it does appears at the start of the section), I couldn’t find out why Lilypond won’t allow me to put the repeat there, so please don’t forget to repeat the section as intended.

P.S.

This is by far the most complected and longest composition I’ve written to date.

Prelude for Adulthood Download

Minuet in E Major For Ori Download

Minuet in E Minor for Ori Download

Ori’s Waltz / Omer Katzir

Nothing too much to write about, it a slow and very simple waltz dedicated to my wonderful niece, Ori Livnie.

Well, there actually few things to write about it. For one, I play in faster tempo, about 110. Second, 4th bar, I don’t play it as written, I play the first chord as dotted one and shorter with the second chord. Finally, I use different chord at the end of the second part, just go G# Minor in any position you like.

It’s more of educational piece for beginning students as it’s very easy to analyze with guitar tablature for new students without musical background. Composed at October 2nd 2020, recorded at the 9th.

Ori’s Waltz Download

Fantasy III / Omer Katzir

My third, and probably shortest Fantasy. According to the file, I finished it in April 7th 2018 and recorded on a Piano in April 2nd 2022.

Although it’s a Piano recording, the original was written for Lute. There are several errors in the tablatures such as bar 6 and bar 16, in bar 6 for example a note is clearly missing from the tablature. In the recording itself there’s also an error where the sol (g) in bar 18 is shorter compared to notation.

I’ve also encountered several problems while recording, and the Piano sounds a bit dry, that’s because I only had one microphone and a very bad one, apologies on that. I already ordered a new microphone.

Finally, you can see I’ve changed the background of the video from the cloud to underwater, that’s because my FCPX, for some reason, does not show me the Cloud background anymore 🙁 in fact, I had to use iMovie for this one because FCPX doesn’t show me any backgrounds. I’m hope you’ll like it anyway!

Fantasy III – Omer Katzir Download