Black Ice Tales - The Forgotten Village

Here`s another one, this time it`s more calm and written for harp, cellos and piano. I hope you`ll enjoy it and please review ;)

http://www.soundclick.com/bands/songInfo.c...&songID=3517169

Very mysterious, very intriguing. The cellos sure did add a nice effect to the piece - I love how restrained they are... it creates a nice build up of tension. They interact very well with the other instruments as well.

The section ~1:25, when the cellos become leaders of the pack is quite nice, although I personally would have preferred to hear them remain restrained throughout the entire piece.

Other than that, I really liked it. Cheers on a job well done!

This has a very mysterious vibe to it, obviously something you were going for. The Cello near the end was really nice, it just topped off the piece with a even great sense of mystery.

Good job.

Thanks, I`m very glad to hear that you like this piece. Indeed, I wanted to create intriguing, mystery - like atmosphere.

Greetings :)

Yeh, like the others said, the mood in this piece is very well portrayed - very suitable for a "forgotten village" theme. I liked the nice contrast of dynamics too; nice to see that you've got some pianossimo parts, though perhaps they could be a little bit louder, or make the volume changes somewhat more gradual (it feels like the lead instrument accidentally drops out as it is now). Another suggestion for enhancing the "mysterious mood" even more is to drag out the endings of the phrases a bit, leaving some more silence in between the parts. But other than that, very neat piece - keep up the good work.

Wow, I liked everything about it. I would not like the cello to have remained restricted in this piece. I think that the piece starts out kinda muddly (not in a bad sense) and it builds all the way, adding more and more structure and more melody, until you end up with a very powerful theme that is played very bluntly on the cello. I like that it stands out like it does. Now there is a term for what I am about to describe and I do not know what it is. In this piece the guitar or harp plucks out the same note over and over and it creates a sound of suspense and builds a melody based off of that. This I really like and I always have in pieces. You are new to me, but you are quickly becoming one of my favorite composers on this site. :happy:

Just one thing - I wish it was longer. It is so good, but so short. I would like for you to develope the theme and come to a climax and then resolve it.

spc1st - thanks for the advices and suggestions!

Ravel - thanks for kind words, I`m honored that you liked this piece, and you`re right, probably it`s a little bit too short..

Greetings:-)

Very nice - atmospheric, sad maybe. As a composition it's well balanced (although I would have liked more recap of the opening harp/piano motif at the very end:- it might be fine like it is for a game but as a piece it seemed to end abruptly. Somehow I expected a longer "fade out", as if (in context) the village had to return to oblivion, hopes lost...

I loved the simplicity of the harmonic scheme and the unobtrusive way changes appear - for example, changing from the melodic elaboration of the harmony on the piano/harp, then as the cellos emerge, elaborating harmonically while keeping their pace slow and brooding, all integrating/balancing well (except perhaps the closing moments as I said).

Great.

M