Lost

I wrote this song over three days.

This song was written to describe the feelings and situation of a woman that lost her love in a cold, dark, barren, and vast wasteland (either physical or metaphorical) and who subsequently, is desperately searching for him. The piano part in the beginning that will last throughout the entire song, and later the harp added on to it, is meant to convey the dark nature of the wasteland, and the sheer space of it, as well as to suggest a frantic urgency. The first melody that you'll hear in the flute is of sadness and loss, and you'll hear it several times repeated so as to give a sense of the everlasting nature of the feeling as this woman searches. After the introduction of this melody, a brief modulation to major will demonstrate a mistaken belief that perhaps she has caught a glimpse of her love in the mist, but the return to minor proves otherwise. The chorus will enter then, also giving the song depth, but carrying the melody that will stand for her desperate searching. Commonly interspersed with the other melodies of the song is the melody of sadness, syncopated and piercing with the french horn that signifies her feelings of loneliness, hopelessness and despair wracking her broken heart. Then, the song builds and builds, until finally the last melody will reveal itself, in the french horn, and later in the full chorus, serving to demonstrate the peak of despair as the woman remains just out of grasp of her goal-I think of this melody as the melody of tears. Then the song slowly dies down to just a couple of voices, in the violin and clarinet, that illustrate the vain nature of the searching, as the woman stops crying, and wanders deeper into the darkness, beyond hope, forever more.

Um. That's it...:P

p.s. there is no dynamics or anything like that cause I find sibelius tends to mess the actual music sometimes, so it's easier to do that stuff later, or manually. hehe...:P

Lost.mid

Lost.pdf

it's very nice...it reminds me of the old final fantasy series ... heheh i like it :D

Thank you, I sort of wrote for it some videogame (who knows which one?) in my head....^.^

Final Fantasy has been a real influence on me too, and I was aiming for the same sort of style, so thanks for the compliment! :)

I like this. A lot. I can definitely see the "lost" part in it!

I agree, I can definitely see some FF in here.

Sounds good, despite the midi being D:

Yeah, I know the midi really sucks. But i'm too poor to invest in good sounding stuff....:P

But thank you! :)

Well, we all know GM sounds are bad. No point in pointing it again (i just did... didn't I...)

The piece is GrEaT! I loved it. develoves correctly and to the point. :)

I have got to know the truth about one thing though...

What came 1st? this composition or the name for it? :)

Well thank you! :)

That's nice to hear. I think the piece came first, and then a couple of minutes later, I knew what I was writing for..and so it became "lost". Unfortunately I never came up with a more interesting name for it. :P

I love the piece, it does sound a little FF but not by much. I love the intertwining melodic lines. They are done very well. The only critic was I wish their was more of a part for the piano instead of just doing the same thing over and over again.

Other then that, great job.

P.S. I dont think the title "lost" is a good title because this piece is anything but lost. Great Job

Haha, thank you! :)

I really tried to focus on the intertwining melodic lines, so it's nice know somebody noticed...^.^

Thanks for the constructive criticism! I agree that the piano did get a little repetitive, but to me, the piece began to sound empty without it...so I kept it in for lack of any better ideas...:P

Welcome to YC.

As a former Sib user, I think I understand what you are sayinbg about dynamics. When using any notation program, you almost have to do 2 scores. One is for everyone to look at and the other is to get a good sound. IOW You will use different dynamic markings to get good playback sounds than what you would use for live players.

I still strongly encourage you to try to render your music and present it with an mp3. Everyone will get a better idea of your music thru sib essentials than with general midi which often doesn't interpret sib right.

Based just on the midi, which is a horrible way to judge music and something I will rarely do, I liked it.

Ron

Thank You for the Tips, and the compliment! ^.^

By the way, What is Sib Essentials? Is that another program that I would have to buy from Sibelius? :P

Just wondering...

First off, what version of sib are you using?

Sib Essentials is the sampled music library that comes with Sib. If you have the full version of Sib 5 or above, that also uses a number of GPO samples.

Ron

Well, actually I'm using a sibelius demo of Sibelius 5 First, as at this moment I don't have the funds to purchase the actual version right now. :P

Which is why I don't have many more pieces up, cause I was never able to save until this particular demo. :)

So....yeah...I'm definitely going to get the real version once I go up to FSU, and it helps they have it in labs and such...

i like it

Thank you! :)

I felt a very mysterious and anxious mood to this, which I believe was your intentions based on the title. I agree that the piano gets repetitive, you mentioned that it felt empty without it, I would recommend experimenting with other instruments to replace and possibly developing it more in the later parts of the piece to move elsewhere (emotionally and arrangemeent wise.) You can always pull out the lower range of some of the instruments to fill the sound space. I would say experimenting with a tuba, cello, double bass, bassoon, bass clarinet, the list goes on. Have fun with it and see what you can come up with. :)

I did enjoy it as is though.

Thank you for your compliment, but thank you even more for your suggestions..

I will definitely try your advice.

:)

Sounds like one of those scenes from a movie where they are searching through a library for something, pouring through volumes and volumes of books. Montage style.

cool. Keep it up.

Thank you! :) I will! ^.^