maestro3092

I just want to say that overall it was very good. One thing that felt odd to me was in bar 6 and again in bar 8, the half-note fermata followed by a quarter rest and quarter note. Usually when you write a choral, that would be a dotted-half fermata and the conductor would cut off and give the beat 4 that leads into the next bar. The rest would be up to the conductor. I also felt like the final bar was a little abrupt in the chord change. It felt like there was a transition chord left out between beats 2 and 3. Maybe beat 3 could be (score order starting at the top) F,E,C,Bb and beat 4 sould be your original chord with the fermata. There was also something that told me that there should be a minor chord in bar 8. This is achieved through flatting the sopranos D. Overall it was really good. Everything I made a comment on is just my personal opinion and I thought it was great to start with.

I love the family of instruments based on a text. I have great ideas already...

Our chior did a piece called Syllable Song Part 3 as a warmup a few years back. It is an actual song....but I don't remember it and can't find it...does anyone know it or know where I can get it.

sorry.....i wasn't paying attention......i'm cool like that....... the musician in me wants to read once to get the feeling then go back later to take in the finer points and learn what i read......

I'm up.....this one sounds way fun actually

I'm up for it.....deadline??

you would think...right?? and cross multiplying is just up my alley....i was just giving my imput on the situation....

Its a proportion... time you have/beats you have for that time = 60 (to get beats per minute)/x beats in that minute in this case its 15/34 = 60/x cross multiply and get 2040=15x divide both sides by 15 and you get 136 BPM

I can't stand midi. That wasn't bad though. I LOVE bowed vibs. We did it for a piece for our winter band concert. The sound is amazing. Kills the bow though... Bowed cymbals are cool too....

I really like the piece overall. It would help if I had a score to follow to see some of the stuff, but just some general comments. At 2:35 where it goes minor and tremolo occours in the Basses, maybe crescendo them up until the Violin comes in and decrescendo them out at like 2:48. The tension building at approx. 8:30 is phenomenal, but it drops off at 8:45. It needs to go somewhere. The Flute drops out at 9:50. Crescendo them and get the strings to match the volume when they take over where the Flute leaves. I love the swell at the end. Overall its really REALLY good. The stuff that I mentioned is just what I would do. Its amazing as is though.

I agree with several other people. It sounded a bit like one of the marching band shows we saw this year at competition. I like it, but it doesn't have a concert band feeling. They can. Our Clarinet players have that Ab almost regularly in our marching shows. Its obnoxious, but its there. But again, I agree. Down an otcave would help a LOT.

our physics classes at my high school do instruments out of household stuff...

I love this song....i think this recording is better than the original broadway cast...its super

I have to agree with JonSlaughter to a point, however, there is a full band piece called Tubby the Tuba. It, through the use of a narrator granted, tells the story of a tuba named Tubby and his problem of wanting the melody but never getting it. The piece makes complete sense without the use of a narrator though. If you listen to it without a narrator, you can hear the "conversation" that the narrator exaplains, minus his or her voice. But I do really have to agree with JonSlaughter. A story told through music is completely perceptional and individual. No two people may hear the exact same story for any piece of music. I listen to Beethovens Pathetique piano sonata and see something different each time I listen to it. I do enjoy trying to write with a story in mind though. Makes it more of a challenge and it makes it special to you.

i ask my friends so give me one or 2 inspiring words....i try to put them together into something i can create a melody to