December 20, 200916 yr This is a piece I composed for a solo female with piano accompaniment. The lyrics are a poem by Thomas Dekker (1572-1632). When I read the poem initially, for some reason I pictured a mother singing to her child in some wartorn country, so I tried to convey that atmosphere in the music- dark, yet peaceful, and with the occasional bit of dissonance. Writing this song was a bit different than writing usually is because I didn't actually have to think about it- one night I just sat down at the piano and this came out, more or less all at once. Lullaby
December 20, 200916 yr Very, VERY well done. When it started, i was thinking: "This is going to be cliche", but you twisted it and put in chords and musical phrases I did not expect at all. Beautiful work. No criticism really.
December 22, 200916 yr Author Very, VERY well done. When it started, i was thinking: "This is going to be cliche", but you twisted it and put in chords and musical phrases I did not expect at all. Beautiful work. No criticism really. <img src="http://network.youngcomposers.com/elgg/ipb/public/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif" alt=":D" /> Thanks! Hopefully I'll be able to get a legit recording of it sometime soon...
December 27, 200916 yr The pieces that just come together all at once tend to be the best ones This is very well put together, and you succeed at the peaceful yet dark atmosphere you want, and like Morivou said, it's not cliche at all. Nice job!
December 30, 200916 yr The ending, on how you sumed up all of your chord progressions, was WONDERFULL! I love how the song is simple, yet full, if that make sense. You have truely taken the phrase, "less is more", and made it true. Wonderfull job!!! Keep on the good work.
January 17, 201016 yr Simply beautiful. A piece to treasure. If ever I lay awake at night tormented by my music, I would play this to soothe my brow!
January 17, 201016 yr Lovely work. At some points a bit too grim to be a lullaby...but that's just me. This piece is absolutely beautiful. I ADORE the text as well. Keep it up!
January 18, 201016 yr Beautiful work. I couldn't help but think of Hushabye Mountain from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang when I listened. I'm going to mention a couple of things to help you improve your score. Some comments may be very picky but I hope they help. -In measure 10 I'd pull dolce closer to mp, otherwise it suggests that you want the sweet singing to start on the vocal line D. -Be careful about slurs colliding with your notes, such as in m. 23. -In m. 46 make sure a tempo is alligned with the first notes of the measure. -In the piano part at 57 I would use quarter notes tied over to half notes and place a fermata over the quarter notes. Of more importance is the fermata of m. 76. If you have a fermata in one part it should usually be in all (this includes a fermata over the rest in the last measure). Thanks for posting!
