Approaching Zion Narrows for Piano, Marimba, Harsichord and Bass Flute

This is a work based on my impressions of a part of Zion National Park. There is an area where the Zion canyon progressively becomes narrower and narrower ending up at a place where only the Zion river separates the walls of the canyon.

http://www.zionnational-park.com/images/album2/images/zion-national-park-zp_jpg.jpg

http://www.zionnational-park.com/images/album2/images/zion-national-park-j_jpg.jpg

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I found this very interesting and enjoyable, sounded quite minimalistic to me, and I enjoyed it a lot. Would be able to post a score? I'd love to listen again with a score. One thing I thought, could be the recording, but the bass flute wasn't that audiable, I'd've liked to have heard it a little more. I know it's meant to be the winds, and in the background, but it would've been nice for it come into the foreground for a bit [/wholetone fetish]

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Wow! I must say, you've done a marvelous job depicting the park - as soon as the piece began, I could clearly picture the dripping water, vast canyon and everything.

I was worried at the beginning, because it felt really static to me - like the music wasn't going anywhere. But then I heard some changes and it kept developing to the end. So the only complaint I have is that the first section was just a tad too long for my taste - it was really well done, but it didn't really hold my attention after a while. Maybe other people will feel differently, though.

It's certainly not my "style" of music, but I found it very enjoyable nonetheless. Great job! :thumbsup:

I tried several things to get a readable score and none of them worked. Sonar makes a terrible score and I tried exporting MIDI into Finale Notepad and it was better but still not really readable. So here is the MIDI file and maybe you can look at it in Piano Roll View or maybe you'll have better software to make a score.

http://jstonemusic.net/music/ZionMIDI.mid

You composed this in a piano roll? :O

Impressive. Why don't you use a notation program? It'd be much easier, and you'd be able to print legible scores...

It took some getting used to at first, but now I really like working in the piano roll view. The main thing I regret about not having a notation program is the ability to create scores, but I'm not sure anything short of Sibelius or Finale would do what I want and I don't know if I'm ready to make that investment just for scores. I've decided to focus on electronic realizations for now.

I can understand where you're coming from re: purchasing notation software, really, just be aware that not having those scores prevents a lot of the less technically aligned people from interacting with your work and appreciating it. I would definitely encourage you to do so, but that's only my opinion.

That's quite impressive.. ) Sounds quite nice.. :)

Very good work, beautiful and interesting composition!;)

Interesting...

Pretty nice, but not really my style,

Ive been there to by the way, so Its pretty cool what you did with the instumental sybolism