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Keep Me From Sinking Down
Hello,
I would like to share with you a choral I wrote to sing with the choir to which I'm participating (I sing as Bass). The words are not from me but from a gospel -- I found the text via Google, and picked something at random.
The challenge was then to write something "in the spirit of a gospel", knowing that I'm studying only classical harmonies at the Conservatory and my composition teacher knows nothing about gospel. So I've tried to add a few chromaticism here and there, and some secondary dominants.
I'm afraid that the tonal plan of the piece sounds very classical though, as well as the overall harmonic progression in the phrases.
Anyway, I would appreciate honest feedback about it, because it's the only way I can progress and write better pieces.
Thanks,
Raphael
P.S: The MIDI uses "flute", "oboe", "English horn" and "French horn" for the voices because I can't stand the local rendering of choirs here...
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