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yeah, the arpeggio. It's cool if you like it, I was just saying that under textbook conditions it is frowned upon.

I am writing a piece using finale, and I started it with just a voice and piano, but now I wanted to add more instruments to the score to eventually replace the piano part. I can't figure out how to add more instruments to the master score. Where/How do you do this?

what is going on in measure 6 and and the voice-leading of an augmented 4th movement to C in the alto? In measure 14, that jump to middle C in the alto does not sit well with me. Have you tried an octave higher? It sounded better to me when I changed it. I'm not so sure spelling out the chords melodically is such a good idea either. I don't think the singers would like and I am not sure it is very good voice leading either. Other than that, it seemed like a good first time out. I didn't really analyze it harmonically outside of what I could hear and see right off that bat as potential areas of consideration. I've never written vocal music, but one of my musical goals is to write a requiem and a mass, so I've seen a Kyrie or two. I think it is most important to pay attention to voice leading when dealing with the human voice because it does not have as much dexterity as all of the other instruments. In that you can't make as drastic of a change in melodic direction and leap taking as you could with say a woodwind, let alone a piano. Did you model this off of any Kyrie in particular or was this just "free-hand"? If you are not familiar, may I suggest Faure's Kyrie from his requiem for assistance in molding your next one.

have you tried communicating with the composers themselves? perhaps they can let you know where to obtain the scores, or maybe they'll let you have a copy? it seems the direct route would be best, because I doubt there is a viable market for video game scores.

I am getting my PhD at CMU right now. It is in chemistry though. :P I'm just auditing their undergrad composition curriculum though, so I can't really comment on the quality of the grad. program.

Thanks for doing something about the old lessons situation. It will be helpful for those who would like to participate in lessons with those teachers that are currently available but are not listed as such.

Are the lessons slowly dying out? I've noticed that most of them aren't moving, and that the teachers who aren't accepting students haven't really done anything with said students for some time. I'm just curious, because if they are still interested in teaching, I would like to try a lesson, but it doesn't seem like I can if they are teaching lessons that haven't moved in a few months. Is there anyway to remedy this situation, or am I sol?

Thanks for the link! That place is awesome! I'm not sure if that is public domain or not. I think it still falls under Ravel's legacy or what have you, but I guess it all depends on where you are. I had to shell out 25$ for that score in the US because his peeps are still getting paid.

Interesting, thanks for the help.

Thanks for your help so far. But what about for the whole-tone scale? How do you get the same type of movement out of a scale that will seemingly never resolve itself?

Thanks for the help, it's making much more sense now.

Sorry for posting two questions back to back, but these questions have been on my mind for some time. As far as major and minor scales, I have a good understanding of common-practice chord progressions and voice leading. But, if I wanted to write a piece using a scale not based off the major or minor scale, how would I go about progressions and voice leading for say a pentatonic, whole-tone, phrygian or octatonic scale? (Can I assume any heptatonic scale follows much like the major and minor scales?)

My compositions so far have been pretty standard fare 3/4, 4/4 and I was wondering what rational, or maybe how one goes about composition in other time divisions. For example, why would one choose 2/4 over 4/4 or 6/8 over 3/4? Does it make a difference? And what about the other odd signatures, like a 9/16 for example, or 7/8?