Symphony No. 1 - 'Elements of A Mythical Realm' (1st movement)

OK, after awhile (sorry, I have been quite busy lately with schoolwork and such), I have finally finished more-or-less editing the second movement. The program notes are near the beginning of the thread.

I know there a lot of collisions in the score. I tried to remove as many as I could, but some of them were simply unavoidable due to the size of the page. My apologies!


Sound: II. The Winged Creatures of the Cytillan Plain NEW.mp3
Score: II. The Winged Creatures of the Cytillan Plain PDF.pdf

Enjoy!

Oh, by the way, thanks to everyone who commented on the 1st movement! I'll definitely re-write it in 4/4 time, or maybe have some of the instruments in 4/4 while others are in 12/8 (in order to avoid nested-triplet rhythms and such).

I may also work with the file in Audacity to see if I can get it to be louder.

Evan

Once again welcome to the forum. I am not that familiar with Finale, so I can't help you with the volume issues there. But you can amplify in audacity. One thing I have noticed is that when I do a pice and convert to mp3, it always seems to go down in volume. So I mix a little louder to make up for the loss.

The next thing is that I strongly suggest you add the 2nd movement to the original post as well. Many people do not read the whole thread, so some will miss the 2nd movement.

I usually start a new thread for a new movement and add the link to the original in there as well.

Now to your piece.

It is obvious that you have been playing around with music for awhile. I like this work and think it follows your description very well.

One thing you may want to do just for the playback, is to add an empty measure at the end, so as to allow a pause for everything to get back to normal. You can add dead space in a sequencer or audacity for that matter.

Everything else I could mention has already been brought up I think.

Just one last hint. The more music you comment on, the better chance you have of people returning the favor. You will learn pretty quick who posts only in their own threads and who will post in others as well. Seek out those that will comment on others works and then comment on theirs.

Welcome again

Ron

You're onto something. Don't stop writing, because this is the push music needs in the right direction. Your subtle use of color, development style, and harmonic language are all very effective. Great job.

Cool, thanks for the suggestions!

I like the "measure at the end" idea; it seems like a little silence before the second movement begins would allow the audience to "regroup."

Oh, and I'll try to post on more peoples' threads as my schedule allows. With juries, finals, and other projects coming up it's getting pretty hectic!

Thanks again guys.