May 11, 2025May 11 A religious motet I began writing this afternoon and have finished composing in under five hours. I didn't initially think of the text when I first started, as is usually customary for me, but instead found the rhythms suitable for the text afterwards, and as such, took it from the passage of the Vulgate where the crucifixion of Christ under the connivence of Pontius Pilatus is mentioned, and then added a a reference to His resurrection at the end. Admittedly, this motet would have been more suitable for Late Easter, but alas, I guess only now have I managed to compose anything of the sort. Enjoy! YouTube video link: Edited June 11, 2025Jun 11 by Fugax Contrapunctus
May 19, 2025May 19 Hey, did you somehow get the MIDI playback to include pronouncing the words? I haven’t heard of a program that does that (Musescore only has “Choir Aahs” or “Choir Oohs”). If so, what program did you use?
May 20, 2025May 20 Author 22 hours ago, JP S. said: Hey, did you somehow get the MIDI playback to include pronouncing the words? I haven’t heard of a program that does that (Musescore only has “Choir Aahs” or “Choir Oohs”). If so, what program did you use? The name of the program in question is Cantāmus (https://cantamus.app/), a music rendering website originally intended for vocal rehearsals, but which serves my purpose of setting my vocal works with actually "sung" lyrics well enough, so to speak. Better yet, it doesn't even work with MIDI, as it reads the score directly once uploaded to the site as a .musicxml file (which I find rather optimal, given my own bad experiences and failures in trying to get MIDI exports of my compositions to be relatively decent). I also often tend to overlay the final recording of the Cantāmus rendering with the audio file for my composition as sung by the MuseScore 4 MuseSounds Choir soundbank afterwards using Audacity, so as to grant the otherwise crisp and dry timbre of the Cantāmus voices a softer, more mellow sound and a greater sense of reverb. Edited May 20, 2025May 20 by Fugax Contrapunctus
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