frantz

this piece seems to have nice passages but in its whole i found it a bit random, and quite disjointed from the meaning of its text. the text is highly dramatic but there is nothing like that in the music save 2 or 3 poignant descending lines at 1:12 and on. but i think that this is not enough for a good illustration of the plethora of contrastant feelings you display in the text. i guess you could manage to produce some unexpected changes of key or in the chords' leading and resolutions to exemplify your inner changes from fear, solitude and despair to such deep confidence and happiness. there are few dynamic or rhythmic changes too, making this whole piece a plain and steady horizontal frieze instead of a moving set of mountains and valleys as we could expect from the lyrics. maybe it would be interesting for you to listen to Gesualdo's Tenebrae, where in half a dozen bars he moves from hell to heaven and back again.