Have a listen, offer critique!

hi!

any critique from arrangers and composers of vocal music would be welcomed!
but even if you're not interested in this type of music critiques are welcomed!

thanks for your time!

Hello @Display!

I am glad you decided to re-edit this topic and put up your compositions once again even after your discouraging first experience on this forum.  I am no expert on vocal music having myself only really published 2 vocal pieces thus far.  Do you have a score PDF you could upload for the listeners to follow along with?  I know it would help me greatly not only to know the intended words to be sung but also the form and harmony etc.  I do hear some canonic imitation.  Thanks for sharing and I hope you continue to participate on the forum by posting more of your music or reviewing others works!

On 2/22/2025 at 3:26 AM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hello @Display!

I am glad you decided to re-edit this topic and put up your compositions once again even after your discouraging first experience on this forum.  I am no expert on vocal music having myself only really published 2 vocal pieces thus far.  Do you have a score PDF you could upload for the listeners to follow along with?  I know it would help me greatly not only to know the intended words to be sung but also the form and harmony etc.  I do hear some canonic imitation.  Thanks for sharing and I hope you continue to participate on the forum by posting more of your music or reviewing others works!

 

Hey man did you listen to it or? I mean not that I would be wanting to twist your arm to do it, but I never saw anyone listen to it on You tube, but you correctly said the imitation is canonic... I'm jw

I don't have any notation software, I did have musescore at some point, but the fact that u have to input rests until the voice enters really "bothers" me... I don't understand how to use it I guess... also the playback was horrendous for some reason I could not get a decent playback of anything...

I can offer syllable distribution for any of the lines, but this isn't fixed... I mean no one is singing this music to begin with so I'm not that sure why would you need these things?

these are all short forms, I have more uploaded on YT

details that may be of interest to you:

the double counterpoint is all ottava and some alla decima
there's about 5 or 6 voices I think
partsong is divided into 4 "sections"
there is at least one line shared/repeated between 3 "sections", each "section" has at least one line which is used in other two sections, if that makes sense?
one "section" (canone all ottava) isn't "fugal" in that sense, it's improvised so I can tie back to the main expositions...
("main" line is exposed 3 times
one motif from it is used to form 2 other expositions (alla decima)
the opening exposition is "main" line augmented (and very tiny adjustments in tone progression) contra 2 other subjects which are never used again... which may be why you heard it like a canonic imitation, and you're totally correct btw)
I guess you would call this fuga
the final would be A#

I don't know if it would be serving any purpose to write music to staff? I can give you midi files here btw no problem...

I'm kind of unsure what to share here btw, I don't even necessarily claim this is the best one, but it represents my interests well, I did hear one carol you harmonized and write out so I would maybe suggest clicking on "Boze vo imja" on that YT page, if you're curious, the setting would be much more ...like "familiar" to you I think

Thanks for taking interest! And sorry for lack of visuals...