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It is well-constructed but reminds me too much of these semi-atonal things I wrote in college, like my monstrosity of a clarinet sonata! So, I love it, but do not like it.

Very nice! It sounds to me a bit proto-impressionistic, like a young Debussy.

Interesting...I might look into it if life gets a bit less crazy, as it has been for me this Fall!

I'm not familiar with Jommelli, though I do know the Michael Haydn Requiem (influenced Mozart's), the Bruckner Requiem (modeled on Mozart's and in the same key of D Minor) that he wrote at age 24 and revised later in life, and even the Salieri Requiem, which has some great vocal writing! Gee Whiz; the Jommelli Requiem was written in the year of Mozart's birth! How weird is that? I will listen to it. My Requiem is MODELED on Mozart's unfinished Requiem, if you listen closely and see how I broke out the text. It does not SOUND like Mozart, except for the occasional turn of phrase.

I guess I will do at least a BIT of musical work this morning, and go into Noteflight and extract what I have entered (most of it!) in order. Requiem in Bb Major-Introitus Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Kyrie Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Dies Irae Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Tuba Mirum Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Rex Tremendae Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Recordare Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Confutatis Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Lacrymosa Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Domine Jesu Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Sanctus Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Benedictus Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight Requiem In Bb Major-Agnus Dei Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight The Quam Olim I and II have been entered, but not the Hostias or the final, cyclical movement.

Measure 11: low B shouldn't be too much of a problem, for a good tenor! Measure 17, advice taken! Yes, the C was awkward and might have been an entry mistake...I like the open fifth ending; reminds me of the Kyrie from the Mozart Requiem.

Those octaves ARE divisi; I just don't mess with musical directions or even bowings on Noteflight. It's hard enough for me to just enter the notes! My manuscript has everything, though I'm not sure I even messed with that in the ms of this particular number! Vocally, this is beyond the means of the average church choir, obviously I would think! 😆

Thanks for the compliments! I definitely know Noteflight has problems, and one of them is that it does not do well with vocal music! At age 56, I don't really have the energy to learn a whole new program. The first half or so of my Requiem was written 2010-2012 or so, then I put it aside for years, finishing this Spring! Well, the final movement is cyclical, like the part of Mozart's Requiem Süssmayr completed, and I have to transpose a D Minor fugue to Bb Major, write a coda...this Fall has been really crazy, but I'll at least complete the manuscript some day when I have the energy, because it would be pretty weird to die with an unfinished Requiem partially modeled on the Mozart, but really that last movement I could do in a day. By the way, Noteflight either does not count external views, or doesn't update views. I get most of my views here, admittedly more for instrumental and piano music than vocal...

Nice orchestration. What on earth was your reason for the 2/8 plus 1/8 you arranged instead of the simple 3/8 the piece is written in?

Ah, yes; that add9 in the final cadence: when you read the poem that I set in 1993, it is about swamp monsters that eat you! An add9 chord at the end is an unresolving yet peaceful chord. There is peace in death, get it?😉

Well, these sound nice! Do you have the score online?

Was still thinking of it, and will get to it, but yeah; life is getting ahead of me!🤪

Well, that sounds cool! I will give it a listen!

Well, I wasn't really thinking about that 29 years ago! I wrote it in some bar or coffeeshop...🤣

I have savings, but little ready cash! Maybe eventually. It took me a year to get fairly fast at Noteflight! It certainly has its quirks. It is good enough for me to hear music I wrote 10,20,30 years ago, and realize that it is much better than I imagined just from reading the scores. Project for the future, though I am 56 years old! It took me until July of 2024 to even try a music notation software program; I ain't no techie! I CERTAINLY didn't say I was well off! I'll just tell you: I have about 54k in a Roth IRA, and stand to inherit nothing from my parents, who are, very, well off (and senile).