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Nice job, I really like it, the first phrases are very whitacre-ish. You said it is a rough sketch, so I will assume you will re notate the piano reduction?

eric whitacre, for me is hard to analyze compared to Lauridsen. Whitacre just writes out of his heart, then adds ideas and the frame work- so in scores like Water Night, almost every note is a half note and is very thick. Some of his works are just straight major and simple minor chords, no dissonance at all- This Marriage. When I look in depth on whitacre's works I just think what he wanted to say about the text- I too find it hard to see if he uses and real techniques or styles.

Eric Whitacre and Arvo Part are my two favourite living composers at the moment.

Currently Arvo Part, Fur Alina is my favourite- but most likely that will change in a day or two!

Man, anything by Whitacre is golden, I love Os justi by Bruckner too! Also anything by Veljo Tormis, is great to.

I have a hand width of a 12th.

Usually, I work on about 1 to 5 at a time. Once I have exhausted my mind on a song for a set amount of time, I just switch to a new score, or idea/theme.

For me personally, what helps me to get inspired to write or to just keep working on ideas or lines I have scribbled down, are to just go for a walk in the woods.

Any thing by eric whitacre, or morten lauridsen for all of those in the choral world. I also would have loved to compose finlandia by sibelius.

A boy and a girl, by Eric Whitacre and Remember by Stephen Chatman, both SATB divisi. They pushed the boundaries of what we though choral music was, they are truly inspiring songs, for example Whitacre's a boy and a girl, the song sounds great but it is made up of mostly only +2's and Sus 4 with fifths in the TB parts, might sound boring but look it up on youtube it is sheer beauty

Hard choice, personally my all time favourite is Dr. Stephen Chatman, professor of composotion at UBC. After him, Morten Laurisden and Mia Makaroff.