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This is something I decided to work on for a very limited amount of time over the past two days for the Christmas Event this year! It's a variations piece on the famous Polish Christmas Carol "Gloria in excelsis Deo". Those eponymous words are actually in Latin, but the rest of the carol is in Polish, and I made sure to go in and include all the proper accent marks and special characters which is actually a little tricky to enter into Musescore. This is one of those rare pieces that I wish I had Cantamus for, since it would increase the realism of the piece to have the actual words sung, especially when the Tenors and Basses are in canonic imitation with the Sopranos and Altos. I would really appreciate any comments, critiques, feedback or even just observations that you may have. Thanks for listening and Merry Christmas!

The harmony and dynamics are really awesome. The harmony starts off pretty tame but I really enjoy how it deviates from the norm, and gets adventurous. I think the choir samples don't really do you justice though about halfway through. And Cantamus may be better for vocalization and accuracy, but most likely wouldn't come close to sounding as good as some higher quality choir samples that can sound out specific vowel sounds. As far as the lyrics, a minor critique (and I only know this because I am in the process of creating lyrics in Music Jotter). When you split a word between beats, the hyphen is used for this split, rather than the space. 1:20, are these parallel 4ths or 5ths? If so, was this intentional? And I really love the part at 0:50. You were able to get this part sounding pretty realistic especially with the crescendo!

hello, i have recently wrote a piano piece. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Hem5HcYmpAe7MpKJtQ6xwgeoyzW9MoVV?usp=sharing google drive has the midi file and pdf for the piece. thank you very much

A great little work. The choral variation is fantastic, I really like the way the harmonies are original and original. The polytonal part is so smooth and flows so well, it surprises me. Thank you.

Thanks for your comments Mike! Yes there's parallel 4ths between the Bass and Soprano for a measure there and it was intentional. Thanks again!

Hi @piajo, Yuck I love this! The piano introduction sounds so nice! I love the pentatonics there. It sounds very soothing. It sounds simple, but to attain this level of simplicity with wonderful power is difficult! Maybe for me I would choose flute instead of oboe since it sounds more airy and matches more with this wonderful music. But anyways, I enjoy it! Thx for sharing! Henry

Hey my buddy, Sorry for being late. I have to my 100% concentration for your massive work before reviewing it haha. It's my third listening before daring to review anything. The opening melody by woodwinds is already very captivating for me. It's in my favourite C# minor!!!!!!!!! I love all those pentatonics used! And then the development with blue notes followed by the strings is very nice too. Then at 1:30 I love your usage of brass. I love your orchestration in 1:40, sounds so magical there with the harp, and then you take a huge turn to the tritone G minor, and then modulate to E minor! Very effective there. I love the more raw sound here, especially those annoying low bass strings. Sounds like Western films to me! And then in 2:52 nice texture with the woodwind playing the themes, harp accompaniment and the bass. 3:17 sounds so nice with the brass! I feel like in 3:40 the strings can join a bit earlier but the development is very nice, probably one of favourite section. I fxxingly love the theme here as it did make cry literally. Sounds like walking through an adventure with those pentatonics. The string melody sounds so marvellous here. Then again the contrasting theme in G minor enters. Affter some depressive lingerings in 7:10 that grand E minor theme enters again. 7:50 sounds so mysterious. Even though I know it's from the opening theme, it sounds so different here!! It's so beautiful and I cried a 2nd time. Like @piajo's great saying: That's the ultimate reason why I don't really like Tchaikovsky haha. The 8:50 theme sounds fresh to me with a bit detached touch, then it starts gaining energy for the next blowup in 9:50. I love the tutti here and also the contrast! The woodwind theme is so nice here, and the B major optimistic theme sounds nice. Then the opening theme returns with variations which I love it as usual. Then that surprising C major chord in 11:25 with the snap pizz LoL! I literally laugh out loud hahahahahaha! It sounds very very familiar but I don't know where the inspiration comes from . Like @piajoit does sound optimistic even though I kind of know the inspiration behind this piece. I don't feel like from 12:50 onwards it feels incomplete. I just feel like the intensity lowers after the great adventure before, just like human being towards death. The 14:00 theme sounds nice in Db pentatonic. The materials sound fresh in a different key there. I absolutely love your ending starting from 15:25! I am shame faced enough to say that the woodwind accompaniment there sounds like the opening of my Sextet😝. The ending is so nice!! I feel like it is indeed a life walkthrough and our mind is loading is rewinding on what our life has done in a lapse of seconds. The only thing I'm not satisfied with is that the piece is too short!!! Well, Beethoven wrote his optimistic 2nd Symphony during one of his most painful period, while Tchaikovsky wrote his Pathetique when he was having one of his happiest period. I can say I feel the sadness in your music and your confrontation with it in the middle and the acceptance at the end. I enjoy it thoroughly. Thx for sharing us such a wonderful piece and journey. Really hope you would compose more pieces like this in the future haha!! Henry