February 19, 20179 yr This is one of my recent choral pieces. It is gentle, easy-going piece in simple tonal language with some extended harmonies. Not much else to say about this music. Just listen and comment if you have time. Thanks!
February 19, 20179 yr Between the cluster chords and the freely repeated text sections, this reminds me a lot of Whitacre's "Cloudburst." I like that it's all very accessible note-wise. Anyone who has a group that can tune well should be able to put it together very quickly for a concert. Beautifully done! Thanks for the video!
February 20, 20179 yr Really lovely ending to this song! I get this is mostly about color, but I was expecting a place with wider range for texture and volume as a kind of textural climax, and I see your forte sections as a means to that end, but it's a bit of a limited range, in my opinion. But that's possibly a personal thing only. Very good writing!
February 20, 20179 yr Beautiful, restul and emotional colours! Well done and thank you very much for sharing this.
February 22, 20179 yr Hi Sojar, Lovely choral writing! I love the colors you get with the cluster chords and the free notation. A couple of comments, though: 1. If I'm reading your score correctly, mm. 44-47 are the climactic moment of the piece. But, echoing @Monarcheon, there's an anti-climactic feel to them. Looking back to Hindemith's principle of managing tension through dissonance, a lot of the color chords fall into groups III and IV, but the climactic passage contains only group I and II chords, which are less dissonant (and in Hindemith's theory, less intense). Here is a listing of Hindemith's chord categories, for reference: http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~pdhesterman/old/analysis/hindemith.html 2. Rhythmically, the string of quarter notes starting m. 35 is unsatisfying after the rhythmically dynamic tenor/bass chant in mm. 23-32. It would add a lot of unity if a little of the rhythmic energy from the chant carried over into the next section, even if it's only in the form of a couple of dotted quarter/eighth pairs.
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