Memorial on a Mountain

Today I was scrolling on youtube, pretty mindlessly until I came to a video that I had seen before. It was a video of a biker talking about visiting his friend, stopping by a road station to grab a beer for him. Then it cuts to him walking up a mountain, and over the hill crests dozens of crosses. And you realize his friend is not alive, and the beer was not to be drunk. And this mountain with dozens of crosses, fabric flapping in the wind, shoes dangling, and full beers at the base of each cross, was beautiful. This piece, which was a hyper fixation today, is an attempt to communicate the bitter beauty of this scene.

 

Hey @Some Guy That writes Music,

This shows quite a harmonic and chromatic fluency which lends itself very well to its emotional expression and extramusical meaning.  It is very mournful and sorrowful.  I wonder if this might not also fulfill my request of you to compose sadness and sorrow, the emotions I chose from your emotion wheel?  Either way it's very good music!  I wonder why when I recently started reviewing your music it seemed like you were bottlenecking yourself into just the diatonic notes of a given scale before changing the key signature instead of making use of free chromaticism and modulation like you do here?  Clearly, you have the skills I thought you lacked and the ability to channel them towards very emotionally affecting music!  Great job and thanks for sharing.

6 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hey @Some Guy That writes Music,

This shows quite a harmonic and chromatic fluency which lends itself very well to its emotional expression and extramusical meaning.  It is very mournful and sorrowful.  I wonder if this might not also fulfill my request of you to compose sadness and sorrow, the emotions I chose from your emotion wheel?  Either way it's very good music!  I wonder why when I recently started reviewing your music it seemed like you were bottlenecking yourself into just the diatonic notes of a given scale before changing the key signature instead of making use of free chromaticism and modulation like you do here?  Clearly, you have the skills I thought you lacked and the ability to channel them towards very emotionally affecting music!  Great job and thanks for sharing.

 

Thank you! I really do appreciate your words. I actually am still working on the sadness and sorrow prompt. I have an idea with a different tonal system in mind, but I've been struggling to find the balance between sadness and tonality. I find the prompt words of sadness and depressed to be quite specific, with the picture in my head to be sort of empty, with a disheartening melody. Finding this melody has been the challenge for me lately. So I'm taking so time to find examples that complete the picture in my head. So far the most similar compositions to what I'm imagining are atonal works be Webern, and more minimalistic expressionists. This is a very different style than what I wright so finding the sweet spot has been a challenge. It may take me some time to complete the prompt I believe.