July 19, 201015 yr A friend of mine wanted a setting of a folk song for her. I decided to compromise, taking after Peter Warlock (a composer whom I greatly admire). The style is very folksy, the text is just from an older playwrite- (Sir?) Thomas Dekker.Because it is a lullaby, much doesn't change musically between the two stances. Taking after Warlock though, I decided to set the second stanza with slightly darker chords to reflect the sadder nature of that stanza. Lullaby
July 19, 201015 yr A minor 7 on a picardy third? Interesting choice. I really like this! Very beautiful. I think it's a good and extremely versatile setting. I think it'd sound good with SA or T, and a handful of instruments (the oboe sounded good, flute, euphonium, flugelhorn, viola and violin all leap to mind) could adapt this and also make beautiful music out of it. Some details. 1. typo at m.22 2. when writing for voice, the convention is to slur the notes which are members of the same word. 3. your software messed up beaming the eigth notes in the two 5/8 phrases. 4. the introduction sounds awkward. I'd fill it out with another two bars. It works quite nicely as an interlude like you did, though, the half-phrase gives the piece motion. 5. at m.9 and 24, you may want to write out the roll there. I have a suspicion that the playback is destroying what you want to do there. Right now it sounds like an emergency brake just went off. Nice! *favorited* -Pete
October 31, 201015 yr This is beautiful! I totally wanna sing it If you'd like, I could record myself singing it, and send it to you, if you have no non-midi versions!
January 24, 201115 yr No worries, very delayed response on my part too! I'll try and work on getting it to you. I'll private message you my e-mail, since it seems we both do not go on here all that often, it could be a faster way to communicate!
