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Interesting text setting. I have a few problems - m. 53 "the" - is too long. It gives it an accent that it should not have - and since it's a rhythmic accent, it can't simply be corrected by the singer's vocal inflection. Some places, you have words on unstressed beats that could be solved by shifting meter, or you could instruct the vocalist that it's something like a hemiola, and speech patterns should take precedence over meter.
Your counterpoint is pretty strong - a few parallel fifths in a couple places, but nothing that detracts. However, the texture hardly changes at all during the course of the work. I still have a new chord on every beat 1. If you could vary your harmonic rhythm a bit, the piece would be much more interesting.
You have a section where you change keys three times in 7 measures - mm. 78 - 85. It would be a much stronger choice to change the key once and use accidentals. It gives more of a through-line to the bridge into the final verse. Similarly mm. 99 - 102 - it'd be better just to use the natural for the final flat than change the key for just those four measures.
I like your melody, and it's good use of motif.
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