The beginning of my Requiem

This is only half of the introit. I began writing this promptly after getting a score of Mozart's Requiem for Christmas; I discontinued work for about two months and now I am working once again on it. Comments and critiques are always welcome.

Requiem_1_.MUS

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Even thoue I can't listen to it I think it will sound realy good. :thumbsup: :ninja:

The beginnings of my third movement.

wait... so is there no second movement (I know there is but I want to hear everything! :laugh:

I like the first movement alot. The beginning is fine. In the rest of it I would like to hear more stuff happening though. I hear melody, Bass, and a little accompanyment. You've got some good harmony. I want to see complex accompanyment for that melody and bass and your sounds will make you a genius a genius such as the few great composers! The Organ stuff is good. Anyways it certainly ranks quite high so good job!

I don't have any "new" comments in the 3rd movement. Your chords are very beautiful! I like your instrument combinations too. Keep working at it cause I want to see the whole thing! :P

the progress of this piece will be something to follow, assuming he posts all (potentially 20) of his movements :laugh:

I'm already getting good ideas for my fourth movement. The 2nd movement can be heard in the Orchestral section where I have actually finished the complete pieces. I'm nearly done with my 3rd movement, perhaps I'll post it tonight. Thanks for the good comments, by the way.

My main complaint is that it's too bland- harmonically and rythymically. It sounds like you're trying to write in classical style, which rules out things like chromaticism to create tension; You occasionally use neopolitan sixth chords to good effect, which is good, but everything else looks like it's right out of the normal scale chords. Perhaps you should try some augmented sixths, or some leading tone chords, using a major chord where it's normally a minor in G major; I forget the technical term (for example, using an A major chord to transition into a D minor chord, the D minor being natural to the G scale). Overall, the piece (at least the first movement, all I've listened to so far) is too dry. The best part in the entire first movement is measure 20; that chord progression is very powerful. The rest of the piece lacks that kind of power and emotion.

Rythymic variation would be nice. Quarter notes and half notes are overused. For example, the string motif around measure 27 is straight quarternotes and it's not too interesting. Also, the oboe solo seems a little out of place.

Also, dynamics! You've added in a few articuclations, but you haven't added any dynamics at all. Dynamic contrast would make it more interesting.

Overall, it's a decent piece of work but it needs some contrast. It's too much of the same thing: Chord progression, scale, another chord progression, scale stuff, etc.