Hear My Cry, O God

Hear My Cry, O God Instrumental.mp3Hear My Cry, O God Instrumental.mp3Based on Psalm 61 but this is the instrumental version, done with Cubase. Use earphones or you can't hear the bass.

My 5th try at orchestrating, and no one but my family and close friends has heard any of my music.

Hi Lydia,

This is lovely, I like it.  You called it a song, is that how you're thinking of it?  It does have that feel to it in as much as you have a repeating 4 chord progression for a large part of the piece with variations here and there, like you would have in a song.

Nice work.

Kind regards

Mark

Yes, that's right. It's nice of you to listen and observe those things.

Below is the vocal version. I'm not the worlds best singer but I'm on pitch.

Do me a big favour and listen with earphones.

Goodnight.

I like it even more with your voice, it makes much more sense.

Going back to your original question of submitting it to a composition competition, I'm not aware of any competitions that would be looking for songs per se, even though it's a lovely song and not badly orchestrated either, I think most would be looking for new classical works ie., concertos or symphonies or stuff similar to that.  Also, this is tonal, melody led music with conventional harmonies and progressions (this is similar to stuff I write too, and I like it a lot) but most composition competitions that are out there, are looking for work that is much more experimental, not conventional at least.

However, you don't need to win any competitions to compose music, you just need to love what you do and keep doing it.  You obviously have a talent for it, so just go with it.  If you do want to submit any of your work to a competition, then don't let anyone stop you, who knows, one day you might the one who wins.

Kind regards

Mark