Into Spring - SATB choral

Y'know, spring never arrives all at once, but starts and stops a few times. Hopefully, the difference between leftover winter and spring is obvious, even before lyrics.

Is there too much winter in this, and not enough spring at the end? .MUS and .MID attached.

Into Spring.MUS

Into Spring.MID

Just a couple quick comments.

Watch your voice leading. You have several consecutive leaps in parts, voice crossing, and neighboring intervals over an octave.

Take it easy on the accidentals. Secondary chords are mainly used to catch the listener off guard or in a key change. When used at the end of practically every phrase it gets old fast.

And next time you write a choral piece (and this is your choice entirely), find the lyrics first and set them to it, not the other way around. It really makes it a lot easier in most cases.

Good overall sound though. Let me know if you have any questions. Choral music is definitely my favorite type to write and is by far my best area of composition. Good job!

Edit: Oh, and one more thing, please try not to kill your tenors :P They hit a high B several times throughout the piece.

Thanks for your comments, Okay! We know tenors love the attention, eh? :P What's better for them, G maybe?

I'm very inexperienced with composing (and i was a first soprano to boot :P) this being only my second choral piece, switching voice lead...too much, yes? But what is just right?

I'll look at the accidentals and intervals and put my ear to work to fix.

Thanks again for your constructive ideas.

- Paulette

G is MUCH more comfortable for a tenor, though I try to stay below E and only drift north of there if I have to.

As for the voice leading I'm referring to theoretic principles. Like not having the altos singing lower than the tenors, or jumping two 4th in a row (its very hard to sing and tune correctly). 3rds are similar to larger intervals, but have a little more grace than other leaps. And I noticed several occasions in which neighboring parts were more than an octave apart (once again, hard to tune correctly).

Thanks for explaining..I'm theoretically challenged. *sage*

haha, dont worry about it. Music is my entire life and I'm pretty sure I'm one of just a few people on earth who actually enjoys studying theory and cant get enough of it! (Last year I had my entire theory textbook read before the class even started:w00t:) So sometimes I assume everyone understands what I'm saying :wub:

Actually, I never had a theory class, and in fact, haven't sung much for about um..20 years ;)..so any help at all is greatly appreciated! I pretty much work with my ears.

Okay, I think I have the tenors off their toes and have undone some (but not all) of the accidentals and lead changes.

Further advice? :toothygrin:

Into Spring2.MUS