A Witches Mass

This is the first movement of a new project I'm working on on the side.

The text for this is: Mother! Maiden! Crone! How wondrous you are!

Comments Welcome!

A Witches Mass

The name is very appropriate to the song. good job!

I think a second section would be great after the repeat. How about trying a different key for this new section too?

It sounded good, but there are several parts where the accented syllable falls on an off beat; parts where it should technically be in an asymmetric meter (which 12/8 is not without further specification). It would be rather pointless, imo, to change the meter in the few asymmetric parts throughout the piece (while leaving the piano and other parts in 12/8). So, I would suggest accenting the notes that fall on the off beat, or at least put a tenuto over them so they get some stress. (ex: "mai" and "crone" in measure 2, "mo" in measure 3 (all parts) (and the "mo" in alto and tenor should probably be an eighth note tied to another eighth note so as to notate the location of the strong beat and stay consistent with the compound meter), "mai" and "crone" in measure 3 as well, and every occurrence of "are" in measures 5 and 6.)

I'm sure you are well aware of the text of the bass part overlapping with the piano part in measure 4, but that needs to be fixed as well. Also, I'm not sure the tempo marking will be accurate enough as there are no dotted eighth notes anywhere in the piece and therefore no bearing on how fast it should actually be other than slow. I would change it to eighth = number (whatever matches the speed you want).

Other than that I found no problems with it (and those are all relatively small notational things). As far as the music itself I thought you did a great job. It does seem a little short, but maybe that's just psychological because it finishes on page 8 :hmmm: . It came in at almost exactly 3 minutes, which is on the shorter side, but by no means is too short...It just seems like there should be more to me. :dunno: