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Originally Posted by johnsamuelpike
I enjoyed listetning to this. Nice work!
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Hi johnsamuelpike, gald you enjoyed listening. Thanks for listening and for the comment.
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Originally Posted by frantz
hi Majesty!
great pieces! love your style. you achieved very grand and brilliant effects and fantastic colors. the percussion parts are excellent, very effective and appealing. some sections slighlty reminded me Janacek's Missa Glagolitica. my only suggestion is that you might vary a bit the overall textures in order to create more contrasting sections. anyway it is a great job. regards!
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Hey frantz, thanks for the comments. I do know what you mean about the textures. It was in part a purposful decision no to vary the texture much since it was a "brevis" piece. But I guess my decision backfired on me since you feel that more variation in texture could have been used. Hopefully, it won't be taken as a boring onslaught of continuous texture.
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Originally Posted by Mike
Well, this has certainly been a long time coming. Now, we see the end result. 
I very much enjoyed the mixture of styles you employ. The percussion against the orchestra is quite hypnotic - no doubt a live performance would enhance this effect further, given the visual aspect along with the absence of GPO.
I did find quite a lot of repetition, especially harmonically, but my guess is that's because there are no lyrics in the synthesised renditions, and the audience's attention will need to be trained on the narrator from time to time. Thus, the music sometimes needs to occupy the background.
I would be very interested to hear this live if you ever get the opportunity, since GPO really doesn't do it proper justice. Congratulations on a fine work! |
Mike, Thanks for listening. Yeah, GPO doesn't give the full sense. Just like the texture issue frantz brought up, it was a purposeful decision to have a kind of repetitious scheme with the harmonies much like you would hear in a Mozart Missa Brevis. But, if you found that it was "a lot of repetition" harmonically then again my decision backfired on me.
I will be submitting this work to a competition and hopefully my decisions won't be seen as a weakness or a lacking in my understanding/ability. Again, thanks for listening and glad you enjoyed it.