Riku

I'm still extremely interested in hearing this...

Wow, it's been a long time since I'ev posted something here... I have a pretty new work I wanted to get opinions on. I wanted this to be a slow, almost eerie song. I felt that the dissonance was appropriate since the title of the song "War is kind" is almost dissonant itself... since obviously, war is not kind at all. :P What I want to happen with measures 40-42 is this: The CM chord is sung for about a sixteenth of a beat before everyone goes to their own note WITHIN the key. Any random note. Then everyone should slowly start to come back and end up on the chord in measure 42. :thumbsup: I removed that measure when I was making the audio so it would be like, ear-bleedingly ugly and loud and yeah. hah. So tell me what you think! War is Kind.mid

Sounds like fun. I'll be sure to enter.

I don't have too much to say about this piece... I've been working on it for about two months, constantly changing and revising it in different ways. It's a pretty moderate tempo until section 2 when it really picks up, adding more and more voices and more and more power in the piano accompaniment. Then it calms down again. It generally follows the pattern of an actual tempest. :) Credits to OMWBWAY for the amazing lyric job. MP3 I'll get a PDF up in the morning. I just tried using PDFCreator and it literally opened like 30 "How do you want to print your pictures?" windows and I don't have time to fix it tonight.

No feedback at all? ):

Wow... after listening to the recording my opinion completely changed. It's brilliant... I love how it flows and each voice part is kindof its own... ignoring the parts around it, yet making beautiful chords. I love it.

It's interesting. I bet it would sound a lot better in person, though. It seems to get very 'heavy' in places. Very jumbled; too many voices at once. I also couldn't pick out too many moments where the chord was a "stunning" one. The whole work seems to be built on dissonance and clashing voices. It's good though, but like I said, it would probably be better in person.

I'm extremely active in my schools music program. Whatever I write I just show to my chorus teacher (who actually retired this year, boo), and we perform it. I guess I was just lucky, lol.

We were supposed to perform this for our Spring Musical this year! We ended up going with Jane Eyre instead (which is equally as amazing). The Secret Garden is definitely one of my all-time favorite musicals, with Lily's Eyes and the Storm sequences being my favorite pieces.

Verdi's Requiem. It's absolutely stunning. I've been switching between that and Orff's Carmina Burana, which is equally as stunning.

Updated with the audio.

I do! I'll export and post it in a minute.

I have a haunting piece of music here that I just cannot seem to create lyrics for =\. I've tried on numerous attempts but all have failed. I'm looking for someone who's willing to create lyrics for this music. It's very haunting and sort of daunting at the same time. Lyrics should be appropriate for high school :P. I know the score is still a bit messy... sorry about that. :thumbsup: Audio: 2shared - download piece1.mp3 Binder1.pdf

Well, I've been working on this for quite a while. I took a lot of tips and advice in my other topic and put it into effect in this piece. All dissonance is intentional. Yes, the alto line is in Latin at some points. There's a lot going on in the beginning, again intentional. The basses are humming a slow rhythm, the tenor's have a beautiful melody going, ('Bring Her Again') and the women are almost chanting the beginning of Hail Mary in Latin. It opens up to everyone having the melody in English, except altos in Latin. That leans into a darker section of the piece ('Invictus'). That leans into a sort of a section duet with the sopranos and altos exchanging while the men hum a mock accompaniment. It ends with an outburst of dissonance and Latin chants. All parts (except the womens section duet) are based off of poems by William Ernest Henley<3. Bring Her Again.mid

Amazing idea. When I start college soon, I don't want to have to spend bags of money just on textbooks... Variety of sheet music is what I'd look for. I'm more of a choral person, so I guess choral works from the most renowned composers (Mozart et al, Whitacre et al, etc).