Sunday, March 22, 2009

Theme Music.

Okay people!! =D

I know it's a little late now. But I've decided to print screen and save a lot of time. =x I did this in an hour and thirty minutes (excluding the editing time), so pardon the odd soundings clashes. Okay. It's meant to sound clashy. But not too clashy because I don't want to disrupt the audience too much from the main conclusion (ie, I don't want my music to steal the limelight from me!) HAHAA!!!

Enough of the crappings.
The song's called "Walking in Solitude", composed by me (yay!)
Here's the programme note:
"Walking in Solitude" is a monothematic composition. Written in G minor, it portrays a person stuck with all the conflicts he'd have to face in his life, and how much he hope that someone would understand his plight.
The piece revert back to the motif used in the introduction, representing the fact that no one, no soul that he've found could understand him, leaving him to walk the path of life, in solitude.

Yes. It's not really related to the main extract that we're doing. But my mind was blank when I sat on the piano the previous evening. I was stuck with a really nice, suitable motif but I just can't put myself in Tillie's shoes and write something out. So I'd just put Tillie in my shoes instead and write something similar. =)

This piece revolves around these few pointers...
Longing; Conflicts; Rejections; Emptiness; Loneliness; Hope.

AND IT GOES REALLY NICELY WITH THE CONCLUSION!! xD
Okay, it's meant to be for the conclusion. =x So yeah. It've to (duh).

Want a glimpse of the piece?

Click to enlarge.

And please note: This piece is written with the tempo mark GRAVE!!! 42 crochet beat per minute. Please don't stare at bar 17 - 18's semi-quavers running notes okay!! Yes. Choir.

*The Great One, now you know why am I in choir for?

Performer's note:
This piece was written with inter-locking melody lines weaving between the chordal progression to leave a draggy feeling in the audience.
Despite the rigid tempo, the piece should be slightly flexible with it's timing (rubato tempo).
The pianist musn't lift the pedal till the next ped sign! Reason: To retain an empty feeling atmosphere, creating a surreal reality to allow the audience to indulge, not in the music, but what the actor's saying, thus creating a background surround around the performance area.

Happy listening to the imaginary sound just by looking at the score. Well, I'll try to get the sibelius to work on my side and export the music file out either by midi, mp3 or wmv. So, wish me luck!

Oh! And before I forget, this piece shouldn't follow the script. It should fade in from line 281 where Benjamin (Beatrice) says, "Matthew?" ("Matilda?" in the script).
I will settle the rest of my monologue. D;

That's all for now, okay people??

Cheers,
Matthew (Chenxing).

p/s: if you found that the score's not complete (ie, no dynamics and no phrasing; there shouldn't be much dynamics fluctuation in the piece because it's just plain accompaniment. As for the phrasing, it can be seen with the chordal sequence in the bass. I'm too lazy to draw the phrasing lines. You know, sibelius is very troublesome when it comes to lines.), don't panic. Read this, if you still can't accept it, tag me.

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