Mythos Overture

Hello, I am new here and would like some feedback on my orchestral piece, Mythos.

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Mythos Overture is a 7 minute piece for large orchestra. Form is A-B-A starting with a bold fanfare for trumpets. The B section is mysterious and lyrical and returns to the A to bring the work to an end with bombast, percussion, and brass fanfares. I apologize if the mockup isn't very good. Some of the louder sections are clipping and I haven't figured out why that is happening so please excuse that.

Thanks very much for your feedback.

I really like it -

I think it's very strong harmonically, especially in the A section. None of the melodies really drew me in, however. I really liked the rythmic motif of two sixteenths followed by an eighth - I though it helped draw the piece together. I couldn't quite get a grasp on the fanfares at the beginning and end - they seemed unnecessarily dissonant. The A section was my favorite - there was good interplay between instruments and a good driving force through the whole thing. The B section didn't keep my interest as much - It didn't seem to develop very well, but I've always liked bangy parts better than calm parts. I liked the buildup back to the A section, and I thought the rhythmic buildup to bar 169 was very cool. I'm not sure why you marked the strings detache at 169, maybe I missed something earlier.

Having been rather critical up there, I should mention that it's way, way, way, better than what I could do. Overall, I though the piece was great!

Very impressive!

You've been composing for a bit ... ; your clear dramatic orchestral abilities and sensitivity to tension create a wonderful listening experience.

Do you compose for film or game?

Great work!

... and for just a second I thought I heard Elfman's Batman theme. (?)

Also, what libraries do you use?

Thanks for sharing this.

Michael

Definitely material for a dramatic science fiction movie, Karelm!

I enjoyed it very much!

Fred

Thanks very much for the feedback everyone!

This piece started off as a score to a CGI animated short film I did about a mythical battle between the gods of ancient greek mythology. Because of this, I wanted an antiphonal trumpet Olympian style fanfare so I recorded it with 6 trumpets (including 2 D trumpets) because one of the cues they go up to high E which the players had no problem doing with D trumpets. Anyway, I was inspired by the idea and kept on writing music after I had delivered the score. I was looking to do a brief 7 minute curtain raiser type work so I felt some of the music I had written for this would be good. It was adapted and expanded plus some new material added to be a stand alone overture style piece. One of the problems I had was the ending - I worried it could be too much; too over the top but it is sounding like people like it as it is.

RadonUlzer: Thanks for the feedback. Regarding the detache at 169, even though detached is really the only way to play this, I wanted to have the players exaggerate the detached quality. The B section introduces a variation of the A theme that is heard again at the end (the one with the 9nth interval). It is intentionally ambiguous, mysterious, and tense.

Michael: Solo instruments were VSL Special Edition. Ensemble instruments were EWQL SO Gold XP. No Danny Elfman, but plenty of Bernard Herrmann who inspired Danny and I as well as many others.

Again, thanks for everyone who took the time to listen to this.