Nights of Music

This piece was commissioned by Adam Christie for the Aesthetics chamber choir at Concordia College-Moorhead, MN.It is based on a poem of the same title by Thomas Moore.I have not included a score because the piece is under consideration for publication, but I still would love input as this is my first original choral composition.

Nights of Music

I like this. It's very tame in comparison to more modern choral works. I think the harmony could be a little more advanced but this is fine as it is. Thanks a lot for sharing this.

I enjoyed it very much. A capella music is gorgeous.

I really don't know much about choral writing, so my only comment would be, it might be a little repetitive for some listeners. It wasn't for me, mostly because the themes were so lovely. I look forward to hearing some more of your art. Thanks for posting!

I detected some parallelisms in the counterpoint that maybe shouldn't be there, given the idiom of the piece as a whole. However, it's a very pretty piece - much in the vein of Charles Villiers Stanford and Bruckner and those folk. Now, this is just me - but there are times when I wish it would be more than just a pretty piece. There's so much to play with in a strophic text like this, and while you've set it very well in a traditional manner, I would have liked to hear more adventures in the sound. I thoroughly enjoyed the extra divisi when they showed up for that reason.