Suite of 6 Short Ecclesiastical Pieces for SATB

[ChameleonMusic]

Good to have you back sir!

Sounds good to me me as well, although I'm obviously no authority on ecclesiastical matters..

Hi there DT! Cheers for the feedback.

I'm no expert in that field either, being a signed sealed and delivered atheist...I just like writing in that style from time to time!

Ah, good! Without hopefully veering off too much into HPC territory I remember Richard Dawkins picking some Bach on Desert Island Discs and saying how he loved a lot of 'religious' music, without believing in the same inspiration - more celebrating the achievement of the composers.

I personally would draw the line at Stryper.

Stryper - uuugh!

Quite like this lot though...

[ChameleonMusic]

top quality work here

I like the brevity as well

Thanks Jan.

Brevity was 100% intentional - I think it's good to try and write VERY short pieces sometimes, but still to make them seem complete as such? A different focus for the composing process maybe?

[seismic1]

Mr T. in da house (I must be the occasional youngster)

I just listened to the suite, and I reckon Sacramentum is my favourite. It sounded better on the cans (DT990 Pros) than on the monitors (10 year old Rokit 5s). I was getting a little resonance between 400-800 Hz on the monitors. I don't listen to much choral music, and this is the first music I've listened to on KVR since I completed installing my new workstation yesterday. I'll try it on the Audioengine/Arcam/Missions tomorrow.

Glad you're back with us

[ChameleonMusic]

Thanks Tim,
Sacramentum has grown on me over the weeks since I composed them all...I think it was the quickest one of all...just sort of happened at the keyboard and I managed to resist the temptation to tweak it too much!

Resonance between 400-800 Hz - I think you're right there...this particular choir library is quite powerful there at times without a tiny bit of taming! It's a good thing in one way - plenty of smooth oomph when needed in the male voices, but does need to be monitored..thanks for that!

Note: there is an adaptive EQ on there in that frequency band, but It might need a slight tweak...I'll have another listen tomorrow and update the file if I think it's too prominent.

[seismic1]

I think the tracks that "highlit" the resonance for me were Magnus Mourning and Crucifixus.

[ChameleonMusic]

I think it's one of those male singers in the Dominus Choir - some serious 'chops' around those frequencies!

You're spot on - it's most prominent in those two tracks and not so much in the others.

Many thanks again for the 'heads up'...I'm gonna leave it for now and listen again at the end of next week on a few different systems before I tweak anything...It may be worth a quick adaptive EQ adjustment!

[el-bo (formerly ebow)]

These are very well done. I also took to 'Sacramentum' more than the rest.

Glad I listened. Thanks for sharing

[Benedict]

Nice work Mr Music.

Simple in complexity (layers of Stuff) but nicely delivered. Elegant.

BTW I get what you mean exactly about people's lack of manners. And I think your first post with the Palestrina Person was spot on, nothing to feel worried about (bearing in mind I like people to be clear).

[ChameleonMusic]

These are very well done. I also took to 'Sacramentum' more than the rest.

Glad I listened. Thanks for sharing

Cheers - Sacramentum seems to be a fave at the moment!

[ChameleonMusic]

Nice work Mr Music.

Simple in complexity (layers of Stuff) but nicely delivered. Elegant.

BTW I get what you mean exactly about people's lack of manners. And I think your first post with the Palestrina Person was spot on, nothing to feel worried about (bearing in mind I like people to be clear).

Thanks for the feedback - appreciated.

Yes these are deliberately quite straightforward little pieces compared to other comps of mine! Helps me remember to use restraint...I have a tendency to over-complicate pieces sometimes!

People's manners - I was on here for 12 years and then left for 12 months because of the significant minority of assholes!

[jancivil]

I remember. You left right after someone called Am7 in 1st inversion (aka Cadd6) E minor augmented 5 sus4 (and some other exotic-looking things) and said the reason we couldn’t grasp this was failure of reading comprehension. On top of which someone complained about demeaning the OP, confusing them with this lunatic. While making such a stance against music theory like ignorance is an ethos.

I’m pretty much done here, myself.

[jancivil]

- I think it's good to try and write VERY short pieces sometimes, but still to make them seem complete as such? A different focus for the composing process maybe?

Short is how I do things. I never quite reach long form, it’s really short pieces strung together. But it’s get in there, say it and wrap it up. I hate 2.5 seconds of material and it’s a five minute song thru repetition.

[ChameleonMusic]

I remember. You left right after someone called Am7 in 1st inversion (aka Cadd6) E minor augmented 5 sus4 (and some other exotic-looking things) and said the reason we couldn’t grasp this was failure of reading comprehension. On top of which someone complained about demeaning the OP, confusing them with this lunatic. While making such a stance against music theory like ignorance is an ethos.

I’m pretty much done here, myself.

Hi Jan,
I do vaguely remember the 'muppet' involved in that thread...I don't really mind if people who talk about music theory in depth get it totally wrong sometimes as long as they accept it when I try to help them...he just got more and more insulting and tried desperately to justify his lack of knowledge...

As I said to him at the time: "I know f**k all about fishing so I don't post in depth comments on Angling forums"

He wasn't the reason I exited though at all...it was just a long, long build up of pointless nastiness from a significant minority of (all too often) uninformed idiots.

I didn't enjoy it anymore at all so I left! I'll give it another go as I do value the feedback I get from many on KVR, but I suspect it won't last long.

I seriously blame the slack moderation on here...

One of my other big interests in life is board games - playing and designing them. On BoardGameArena.com recently, a very experienced player who I luckily beat in a two player game got ratty and insulted me for some reason...he triggered a warning from the site...he responded VERY negatively to the warning...his account was deleted the next day.

[ChameleonMusic]

- I think it's good to try and write VERY short pieces sometimes, but still to make them seem complete as such? A different focus for the composing process maybe?

Short is how I do things. I never quite reach long form, it’s really short pieces strung together. But it’s get in there, say it and wrap it up. I hate 2.5 seconds of material and it’s a five minute song thru repetition.

I know what you mean...i think a lot of my apparently extended comps are actually lots of little ones 'sewn' together!

[vurt]

"muppet"