Kat's Casting - "Will I be financially stable?"

I couldn't pass up another chance to do another Muzoracle casting for a friend.  (Muzoracle is a storytelling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice.)  This time, Kat asked the Muzoracle if she will be financially stable.

My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below.  The instrumentation of the piece was guided by the suits of the cards drawn.  Since the triad on the left is in the suit of strings, I chose Harp.  The triad in the middle is in the suit of brass, so I chose Trumpet and French Horn.  And finally, the Conductor card on the right is in the suit of voices, so I chose a 4-part women's choir.  If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here:  https://muzoracle.net/

This short musical representation of Kat's casting is about 2 and half minutes long.  The piece is in Bb, since the black 12-sided musicians die landed on Bb.  I then made harmonic/melodic underdrawings that I used in the composition of the music.  Since the first solfege die landed on FA and the card drawn was a triad of strings.  I start off with Eb major triads in the harp.  Then I included an Agitato brass passage based around RA (the RE in the image below should be a RA - it's a mistake).  Then I switched to a triad based on MI, before moving the music to G minor through a D7 b5 kind of harmony.  Then, in order to end up back in Bb major at the end I transposed the whole pattern up a 5th and retraced my steps in a retrograde, back to the beginning chord.

If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading!  And I hope you enjoy listening to this short chamber work I wrote to represent Kat's casting.  Comments, suggestions, or critiques are of course, always welcome.  Thanks for listening.

Oh my gosh it's casting again!

I really like the contrast you bring between the vocals and the brass, with the consonant harmony of vocals constantly disturbed by the brass. 

I'm thinking of the harp writing as in b.8 it may not be playable as the F pedal is played with the # pedal in b.7 end but need to be immediately turn to a natural pedal in b.8, and the F cannot be replaced by E# pedal either in b.8, nor F# played by Gb pedal in b.7. 

Thx for sharing this interesting music!

Henry

I take it Kat will have some initial struggles, but be financially stable over time. Extremely interesting piece, making great, creative use of crescendo and diminuendo (layered with accel and rit). The constant key changing also keeps up the suspense. Just when you think something is about to resolve, you hit the listener with a sudden tempo, dynamic and key change, throwing off all sense of stability. At least, until we get to the end. Very cool!

very mystical vibe, interesting that you still got that despite that a major triad was basically baked in to the theme.