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Gruntiferous Groontiferies
Some of you may have noticed the question about copyrights which I posted in the Off Topic forum eariler today. I wanted to write a choral piece based on vogon poetry, but I was advised by Robin for copyright reasons to write my own nonsense poetry (for copyright reasons). So here is what has resulted over the past few hours. I normally don't compose all that quickly but I've found that writing for voices makes it a lot easier (this is my first vocal piece) since coming up with melodies just involves singing the text! I plan on composing two more pieces to complete the set of "Gruntiferous Groontiferies".
The main influence on this piece would have to be ligeti's opera "le grand macabre". It is atonal for the most part, and contains some very odd harmonies. These harmonies are often based on thirds but also incorporate some seconds, tritones, and other intervals. I tried to capture the odd nature of the text through these harmonies. As this is my first vocal piece, my choral writing probably isn't very good, and I know that the piece is incredibly difficult to sing due to the harmonies. Tips, reviews, comments etc. would be appreciated.
I'll apologise now about my notation; it's a bit scrappy and hopefully I'll be able to fix it at some point.
Here is the text for the first piece. It's completely random, and half the time it doesn't even rhyme and reads almost like prose:
My froomsum fishfluxum
my parfsum reduxum
your minkled motions are a moo
like wanged woofles
overweeding tea for two
Warg, I am grootious
phototing fifty foods
partooting pinglepoods
I gravelly grovel geeps
while gruxums grovel gardles
Now I shall shoop you
while I shrinkenshap
all your shiftenshtarkens!
Fishfluxum you!
Thanks,
ClassicalSax
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Work(s) in progress: Concerto for Alto Saxophone and Wind Band
Symphony No. 2
A Series of Impromptus For Solo Alto Saxophone
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