Sky

A piece I did last year for my music assessment... Unfortunately I haven't been able to record it (it's for SSA, 2 pianos and cello) so you'll have to cope with the midi and sibelius file. My choir is currently practicing it so hopefully I can get a recording about June/July this year (but we have no cello and only one piano). It's hella hard XD;; I never expected it to be sung by a real choir so it was more of an intellectual exercise for me... anyway. I'm proud of it <3

Inspiration mostly from Stephen Leek's Ngana and various other pieces.

LYRICS: (also by me)

oh! sky.
the empty mournful blue
shines down in thoughtful radiance.

a cloud, or two may
flit across the face of one so hollow.

oh! sky.
the greying eye
weeps, in shades of dull.

And then....


The storm heralds its own coming in such triumph
oh with raging calls to all
who may lend their ear
In vain, in vain it cries, it knows
For who shall answer
a stormcall?

Fading....

blue.

Comments greatly appreciated!

This is definitely a piece to be happy about...It is seriously awesome, and I congratulate you, the harmonys for the most part work very well, And the piano parts (from what I could "hear", being not a Sibelius user) sounded good too...The cello also worked quite well...Some of the short moments without choir were pretty cool, like around 30 seconds in were it appeared to take off at a quicker speed it kept till near the end...I wasn't so sure about what kind of effect you were going for with the ending...didn't totally feel right with the rest of the piece...But that's just my opinion, and of course with the midi sounds I get for choir...It's harder to like things as much...This would definitely sound good with a real choir...And I look forward to hearing it again

Lyrics were good too by the way, but I think I will like them better when I can to which notes their on...

I actually wrote the middle part with the choir all on the unison D first, so I think that the parts are a bit incongruous and don't flow that well. The ending sounds a gazillion times better with a real choir *A*;; The parts are weaving around each other, but with the midi it just sounds like they're banging out major seconds and hardly changing. The texture should (hopefully) be very different in real life.

Thanks for commenting it makes me happy >w<;;;;

You already know that I think this piece is awesome! I can't wait till we perform it in June and stuff It'll be awesome!

(No gratitude to you for writing such complex parts, though...FIVE EIGHT I TELL YOU!)