Short Piece for Orchestra

Hey guys! Kyero here!

I am attaching a piece which is meant to be somewhat cinematic in style though I imagine it being played on a stage for a general audience just as easily. It was composed to go along with a visual story which exists in my head (though I aim to someday get it published). The story is that of a Dragon Goddess named Sil'Eph Niir who descends to Earth to prevent the resurrection of the ancient evil Dragon God Maglissos. However she is unsuccessful in preventing his return, and thus he does indeed come back and she must now stop him directly and by force.

The piece that I'm attaching here is that of Sil preparing herself mentally and physically to battle with Maglissos, appropriately titled "Prepare O Goddess for Battle." It's very short, barely even a minute long, and contains a single motif throughout as a means of keeping it simple. The reason for its brevity is because it's something of a prelude to the main battle that's about to take place between Sil and Maglissos. This piece will lead directly into another (yet unwritten) and much larger piece. Though it's fairly raw and unmixed, I consider it one of my more solid works in this medium.

The intended visual is that of Sil standing in an open field (in humanoid form) as she observes Maglissos and thousands of his minions of Darkness gathering on the horizon to challenge her. Imagine the camera watching from an over the shoulder view with Sil's hair just barely touching the camera's left side. Thus the camera backs away to a close up on her face as she glares defiantly at them and begins walking forward unimposed and prepares to take to her Dragon form and face off against her dark counterpart.

I hope you enjoy!

I don't really hear this to be much other than cinematic, if I'm being perfectly honest, probably just in the way you handle the ostinato in the bottom. It's alarmingly short; there was a lot of potential in the story and I didn't hear much of it come to fruition in the piece. It was just... a lot of the same thing? I just thing it tells a scene more than a story, which is a shame because what you have here is a really good jumping off point for a more involved work.

Too short. This is just the beginning.

On November 14, 2016 at 10:42 AM, Monarcheon said:

I don't really hear this to be much other than cinematic, if I'm being perfectly honest, probably just in the way you handle the ostinato in the bottom. It's alarmingly short; there was a lot of potential in the story and I didn't hear much of it come to fruition in the piece. It was just... a lot of the same thing? I just thing it tells a scene more than a story, which is a shame because what you have here is a really good jumping off point for a more involved work.

 

Describing a scene was the point of this piece, as I described in the paragraphs before the piece itself. This isn't any kind of main theme to the story itself, just a moment in time where our heroine is preparing herself for the big fight against the main villain and his thousands of minions.

21 hours ago, Sojar Voglar said:

Too short. This is just the beginning.

 

Like I said to Monarcheon, this was supposed to be short. It's a prelude of sorts to the main battle between the heroine and the main enemy and his thousands of minions. This is all detailed in the paragraphs before the piece.