I used the VSDC screen capture option to make an audio recording of Musescore playing the pieces and created a simple YouTube video in case someone wants to listen to the mass and also produced a version with my singing. These tracks were only produced… Read More »Thanksgiving Mass – audio recordings
I have settled on a shorter introductory section to open the piece so it now has this structure so, instead of a simple A-B-Ch, A-B-Ch structure (Ch being the chorus) it is A-Ch, A-B-Ch, A-B-Ch. I finished writing this and recorded an mixed this –… Read More »Domine Deus Agnus Dei and a closure
The new version of this piece in now basically done, including harmonisation. I have, in fact retained the chorus from the old version in its entirety. This starts in the minor (which suits the pleading for mercy and that prayers will be heard) but moves… Read More »Domine Deus Agnus Dei
Conscious of the approaching deadline, I have been working on the Domine Deus/Agnus Dei in any spare moment during the week – starting on the computer earlier and working later into the evening. An abbreviated version of the existing (not Agnus Dei) piece does seem… Read More »Domine Deus, Agnus Dei and a decision
Having thought I was about finished on this piece a few weeks ago, I have decided that 8th March, (the birthday of the friend which set this ball rolling) should be a self-imposed final deadline. I have continued thinking and experimenting with a “new” Agnus… Read More »Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
Experiments with adding a verse to the Quoniam did not get very far. I have now finished recording this and mixed the tracks. Listening to this led me to swap some lines between the lower voices (tenors/basses) and upper voices (sopranos/altos) in the fugal section… Read More »Quoniam
I have been having a crisis re. not the Agnus Dei. More than one crisis. Taking the setting of the Gloria as a whole (i.e. the three sections together) I find that the Domine Deus – as in the line Domine Deus, Agnus Dei, Filius… Read More »(not the) Agnus Dei “crisis”
I have made a small change to the opening phrase of the Quoniam “verses” – the “feel” was rather too “jerky” and the way that the words scan in each verse allows a minim to be used instead of a dotted crochet/quaver for the opening… Read More »Quoniam – tweaks and recording
I have re-recorded the Gloria with the changed sections and mixed this. Although I didn’t like this version so much at first, it is growing on me and it does sound much “cleaner”. I have also re-recorded and mixed the “chorus” sections of not the… Read More »Gloria – re-recorded
I have been experimenting with different versions of the “gloria chorus”. In the end, I’ve settled on a version which extends the tenor/bass chords and has more of a call-and-response feel. At first, I felt this version lost a bit of energy and drive, but… Read More »Gloria – edited