Candy Village (score+mp3)

I'd say this song has something from Prokofiev (harmony), Sakimoto (pizzicato's) and Hamauzu (echo's).

I used Noteworthy Composer to write this, so the score doesn't look 100 % nice.

But the mp3 is of good quality!

It's about a bad witch luring little children to her house to eat them. It's a mysterious song using a sharp accidental on the kwint of a tonica major chord. How do you call that chord anyway...

So, how do you like it! Also, give a suggestion on which emotion you felt, I want to give a title of an "emotion" to every song I make.

mp3:

XTHost.info download page

score:

http://two.xthost.info/katchum4/Candy%20village.pdf

I quite enjoyed this. For the majority of the piece it sounded quite unsettling, and 'creepy'. I really liked you use of pizzicato strings, but one thing; generally when you are switching between plucked and bowed strings you write 'pizz.' to change to pizzicato and 'arco' to go back to bowing, instead of 'legato' as you were writing. I did feel that the flute wasn't loud enough, there were only a few moments when I could actually hear the flute part, perhaps this is to do with the recording, or maybe you wanted it that way.

I think I liked the last minute or it most of all, the violin melody was beautiful, and the pizzicato just before the end was very effective.

Nice work, keep it up :happy:

I know what you mean, exactly! I wanted the flute to be louder, but the problem is I already put it to maximum velocity and maximum volume. I didn't want to try to bring the piano down, because that would make unbalance to the rendering. I always add every instrument after each other into the mixing and too bad, the flute was not loud enough, I added it at the end and I couldn't just put all the other instruments softer, because that's a risky thing to do after you've just equalized all the instruments.

Thanks about the arco thing, I knew about that, but I completely forgot to do that.

ok, i feel (as im listening to it) unsure, not settled, and not happy. i kinda see an old lady's face smiling with red-ish eyes. amazing what music can do. next part of song, i feel calm, but still tensed. next part, sort of wirerd, dont know what to make of it. well, now its over. really great! 4.95/5 (it lacked a bit, you know, something to really spook someone) but its great nonetheless!

I think I'll call the emotion:

1- The feeling being lost, desperate asking for help. Desperation?

2- Jealousy?

I think it just sounds scary rather than being lost/asking for help/jealousy. It was ok, especially good from the part at 01:57 til end

How about "dementedly playful"?

Enjoyed the rhythmic motifs and variations. I also agree you became very stable and even neo-romantic with the lush piano and strings part. Enjoyed the contrast and the return of the main theme toward the end. Great job!

Michael

I finally named it Frustration.

Songjun remembered me! Well, I'm searching for work now, so no time to be in a composing mood...

(oh, that's why I made this song Frustration, the difficulty to find work makes me frustrated)