|
I might be switching to judge rather than competitor, but I'm not sure yet.
Right now I'm working on setting Stanley Kunitz's poem 'the Layers' for chorus and piano. I'm a couple lines in, with about a minute and a half of music. It will probably end up being around 8 minutes, and I hope I can finish it in time. The music is very dissonant and abstract, but still loosely tonal. So far the music fits the text pretty well, as it is dark and moody, with ideas of a journey or a walk, in a contemplative nature, being portrayed by low thumping piano notes, walking about aimlessly. The chorus follows a motif of a five-note chord, using it in either a chordal/stacked manner, or linearly, as a melody.
|