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  • "Song of love and trying to understand each other"

    M
    M
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    Last saturday I was sitting on my couch and thinking about the things that had be happened. A piece of a melody came out of my heart. I noted it immediately and it became a song without words with the name

    "Song of love and trying to understand each other"

    The choir is a combination of libraries with among others the Vienna solo voices Bariton and Bass, further Harp 1 (2 times with the transpose trick) and Synchron Strings 1, all placed in Synchron wide Stage with help of MIR PRO.
  • P
    P

    The sound is very good, very clean. Your melody could easily work with a number of different emotions and settings. Lots of possibilities for development.
  • J
    J

    Beautifully set, nice voices, well recorded. In one word, a very lovely piece. The opening chords remind me of some film music, but I can't recall which now.  It's nice to hear a composition here again. Most of the time long discussions about who does what, who steals from whom... are going on and on, pushing the main gaol of this forum section into oblivion...

    Thanks for sharing!

    Jos
  • M
    M

    Thanks, Paul and Jos, for your reactions.

    Paul, I understand what you said about that the melody could work with a number of emotions. But the title describes definitly the thoughts in my heart, from which my inspiration came.
    And that there is a lot in the melody that can be developed, I agree with that. Who knows, in the future...
  • J
    J

    I agree with Paul.  "Song of Love and Trying to Understand Each Other" I think would be a more fitting title if the piece was performed with big lush strings as opposed to a choir.  The Choir gives the piece more of a heroic atmosphere or even epic.  That might be why Vangelis' "Conquest of Paradise" came to mind while listening.  I guess the choir would work for what you're trying to do with it but strings might work better?  Then again, they might be cliche too.  Why not shorten the title to "Song of Love and Understanding"?

     

    But it is a beautiful piece and I can see why you're proud of it.  I would be too.  
  • M
    M

    Thank you, Jasen, for your reaction.

    What you wrote, really helped me to realize more from which attitude and motivation I got the inspiration.
    "Love and trying to understand each other" was definitly the subject, but at the same time a part of the inspiration was the drive to stand for this "way of life", and a call to join this way. (A choir that sings unison and sometimes fourpart looks like a logical choice in this case, of course not the only one).
    So the 'heroic', even 'epic' character of the song as you wrote fits on what was in my heart.

    So, Paul, what you wrote, worked out a lot, thank you for that ! 

    It is nice to analize this looking back. When I composed the song, it was not so very conscious, more a totally feeling and drive.

    Concerning the name of the piece: of course this is not a beautiful, well sounding, dense title, I agree with that immediately. But the core of the subject was to try to understand. I think, really trying to understand each other can ask for an effort. Therefore my choice for this title.
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