For our first composition assignment, we are two pick two pieces of music, analyse them, and use features of the two pieces of music picked to compose our own piece.
Right now, I am uncertain over which pieces of music I'm doing. Which, really, I should stop.
I am definitely doing at least one of the pieces on a song by the band "The Dear Hunter". TDH, in my opinion, are the perfect band; the mix so many genres together, it's unbelievable.
They've recently released a 9 EPs, spanning 34 tracks (ish), based on the colours seen in the colour spectrum (The EPs are titled 'Black', 'Red', 'Orange', 'Yellow', 'Green', ' Blue', 'Indigo', 'Violet' and 'White'.) Each EP, while released simultaneously, each sound completely different from the one which precedes it, as well as any of TDH's work in their previous three albums; which is, I suppose, why I love them as much; they're diverse; a modern alternative/prog rock band who incorporate so many things I dare not list them.
Anyways, one of the songs I'm planning on doing is a song from one of their earlier albums, "Act II: The Meaning of, & all things regarding, Ms. Leading" (their first three albums are part of a 6 act long story which frontman Casey Crescenzo has written; think of it as a film/book in music form) prior to the colour spectrum, "The Lake and the River", a 10 minute long song which has so many contrasting ideas in it, it shouldn't work, but it does; the whole thing fits together perfectly. Explaining it won't do it any justice, so I'll link it here and ask only that you listen to the whole thing from start to finish, like any patient musician should do with any piece of music!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MHd28VJo_M&ob=av2n
Oops, typos and bad grammar. Shoot me.
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