Immortality

When writing this piece I used one technique very dominantly. I repeated the same phrase many times, only changing one thing about it every time it was repeated. The end result being something completely different than what I started out with. That's the idea at least. This piece is overall an exercise in this technique, so nothing to be taken really serious.

However, it's the first thing new I've written in about 6 months, so I thought I would share it. It is based off of a MIDI file of "My Immortal" by Evanescence which I found floating around the internet.

it's like a semi-minimalistic traditional avant-garde-ish romantic.


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I like the way it's mood stays pretty much the same, but the actual music changes a bit

Nicely done

Thanks guys.

Lee, I know you wanna say something about this. I've always counted on you in the past.

it's a nice piece with lovely harmonies and mood. the only thing i would suggest to improve it is that your harp part is written too much vertically, making it hardly differentiable from the piano, for both blend too much and the whole sounds just as a prepared piano with a different adorning timbre. if you could make more extensive use of thrills and arpeggios the harp would gain a more strong character and the parts would work better for a duet. anyway nice job!

When listening to writing like this for harp - especially one that is scored pretty much diatonically, and texturally scored more chordally than melodically - I can't help but hear a Celtic Harp player playing this and with a folk musicky kind of way. At M. 61 the rythymic drive is almost PoPpy.

My overall impression (having listenened to it only once and in trying to conjuer memories of it) is that I remember it more for it's four chord progression style than for it's melody(s).

Pretty nice. Not too much of a melody unless you listen to one piano note in particular; there is only a certain extent that arpeggios can carry the song.

The end seemed a little cut off to me.

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I'm not familiar with the Evanescence song, but regardless.

I thought it was pretty serene, I would have loved to hear more creative use of the harp. Then again, what the hell do I know about the harp. I haven't gotten to that yet.

You said this was just an exercise. I'm sure you probably improved from writing it, it was pretty consistent with the original theme. I feel weird critiquing this because I'm sure you already heard this crap.

Plus, it's early.

I'm going to pretend this is the only thing I've ever heard of yours:

vary the harp range and the overall dynamics of the piece and it will be more effective. You know this though. Whoa, it's early.