Mass in F Minor

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Reviewing your work would be easier if more information was provided about it. The Major Works category is very selective in regards to content. If you are going to post a work here, I would suggest posting it in its entirety with a score to study. Please see the Major Works guidelines located at the top of the Forum Page.

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5. An overall summary - putting the score online is something I feel kind of strongly against, mainly because it's got a lot of markings in it that I feel are personal. I'll take these out once I'm done editing the parts. But if anyone feels they could really help clarify textures or recommend some different orchestration, then I'll PM the URI to the score. It's a work which is to be performed in a 'oner', as one continious work. Indeed, the last movement tends towards the characteristics of the first, to suggest the repetitive nature of everything we do from getting up in the morning, to being born and dying, through the cyclic nature of the work as a whole.

Regards.

There's his answer of why there's no score...

THIS WILL WOUND AWSOME LIVE! I wish I could hear a live recording of it live.

However the piece itself... too much dissonance after the beginning. Too many surprises I think, people like to hear pieces that are somewhat predictable but with surprises. Sometimes it feels like people are throwing darts randomally at a keyboard and that is what notes are played. I like what you do with the dynamics though.

at the very least, can you post the text?

Very nice.

The beginning was exciting. I would really prefer to hear this live, however, because I think it would make the chorus's initial entrance much more powerful. Since I don't have a score, I can't really comment on this objectively, however, from my standpoint, I think this movement would be greatly improved if you had a) soloists, b) a section in major. The way you have it now starts to get boringly monotonous after about 4 or 5 minutes.

I liked what you had going on at about 6 minutes in. This was a welcome change, and gave the piece quite a bit more variety. From here on, you have a lot of very good ideas. From a purely subjective standpoint, I think you should lighten the texture a bit more often. It's continuously complex, which sometimes makes it a bit... "draining"... to listen to.

I would love to hear a live performance of this - that would probably fix most of the negative comments I made.

well since you refuse to provide a score i guess i'll give my 2 cents instead of a full dollar:

It's pretty good, I won't lie, but its soooo boring. It's like the same thing basically. The mood and the texture never changes, and like...neither does the key. As intricate as the writing is, it just doesn't work without the contrast.

Or, as Orsini-Rosenburg so well put it in Amadeus "too many notes". lol.

Blunt as usual, but absolutely right.

lol...."Which notes?", though :happy:...

heh, good ol' Amadeus....wait, does this mean John Carey is.....Salieri?!? Oh my God, he killed Mozart! You bastard :happy:!

:P

wow, only on this site would people know quotes from Amadeus...er, well maybe on more, but I haven't visited them and don't really feel like it right now.

well, you see, there are only so many notes the ear can hear in the course of an evening.......I think I'm right in saying that, aren't I court composer? *looks to John Carey*

Yes, yes. On the whole, yes, Your Majesty.

and, er...here's where my original quote would come in: "Which notes did you have in mind?"

and then Ms. Weber comes up...and then (oh no!) announces Wolfie's getting married! with Constanze Weber! and then that singer gets all mad at mozart....damn, I haven't seen that movie in a while, and yet I still can remember that scene...

(by the way, sorry for derailing the thread from its original...er, track :)!)