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Today I was experimenting and some kind of piece came out.

It's based on a part of a part of the first  prayer of St. Gregory of Narek:

 'The voice of a sighing heart, it sobs and mournful cries

I offer up to you, O Seer of Secrets

placing the fruits of my wavering mind

as a savory sacrifice on the fire of my grieving soul

to be deliverd to you in the censer of my will.'

http://www.stgregoryofnarek.am/book.php?parent_id=2&type=2&type_1=none

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Yay! I'm not alone in my love for those type of chords!!!

I think hearing it live would make the low bass sound much better and fuller -midi is horrible at rendering the lower range of the piano. I think your motivic material has a lot of possibilities. 

I think you should expand this to better illustrate, musically, the prayer. Perhaps use diminution on your motif, sequence it upwards and then use it to create a sense of eternal fire. Or.. another possibility is to transform the homogeneous accompaniment while the motif slowly rises sequentially? Lots of ideas here. Expand this!!

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