The Valley of Bones - Part A

Part A of a...well I actually wouldn't call it a Tone Poem...but a musical portrayal of the Valley of Dry Bones found in Ezekial in the Bible. I'm sorry to clean score buffs out there whose eyes are currently burning at the state of my score. The proper and completed score is in a hard copy in the marking room of the university...and so this is the only version I have on me at the moment.This piece needs a LOT of work...oh and don't freak out and troll me on my 'chords in the woodwind section'...those are my Multiphonic markings...but again, the final copy is much tidier and I think even simplifies the way they look. I haven't seen the score for about 3 months.

The Valley of Bones - Part A

Very creepy sounding beginning material. Nice imagery work. I'm not sure the quarter step bends up that you use in the flute are really feasible. I'm not a flautist, but I know it is much easier to bend down than up. I'm not sure if it is really possible to do the effect you want, but I could be wrong here. When the sixteenth note section begins (16ths is flute), the piece sounds a little calculated to me, as if you didn't hear the piece in your head but worked it out largely in Finale. Nice job adding additional instructions as you felt appropriate to the score.

Nice This is atmospheric and I totally can see a landscape here... a lanscape of the distant almost mythical past. This too a lot of work I would say and it shows. Although you use quarter tones, it is not 'hard to follow'. It is very consistent. The Ligeti-like trills are brilliant when they come in. All in all I like this a lot.

The clarinet doing that slur at the beginning is very creepy (I wish you'd use it more, *hinthint*), and the piece as a whole being so sparse and lifeless is a very good job on your part at expressing the "soullessness" of the place you're trying to convey. This would be interesting as a sort of track for a film, I think.

Thanks for sharing! :D

Wow, I don't expect this kind of composition from you! =D Congrats, I liked this. I like the sparseness of the whole piece.The beginning slow section is slow, but it's great. I like how the single notes get more and more frequently played.