Maggie+A

**Musical Scenery** : During the summer of 2004, when I was nine, my family went on vacation to a lake-side resort in Wisconsin with my cousins. The kids were playing Mario Kart in one of the hotel rooms, while the adults talked in the room next to us. It was early in the evening, and we had just ate a dinner consisting pizza and Cheetos, when it started raining. At first, it was only a drizzle, but thenthe rain started to pick up and we began to hear loud crashes of thunder accompanying the pouring rain. Then, the lights went out. Immediately, my youger brother and cousin began crying hysterically, as my older family members complained about the lost game. Our parents ran in and attempted to sooth the crying children, with no sucess. In the midst of all this chaos, I was gazing out the window at the raging storm. Then, a violent stream of lighting shot from the sky and hit a large oak tree near the parking lot.I stared silently as it fell on top of several cars in the lot, including our green mimivan. I turned around to face my mother and said, "Mom, I think our car's broken." media type="file" key="ATreeFellOnmyMinivan.mp3" **Symphony**  My symphony theme is rain. I've always loved everything about rain, especially how it sounded, and so it became my unifying theme.

**Movement 1:** Well, as you could probably figure out, this is the first movement to my first symphony. I made it on finale notepad. it only uses piano and flute. Both parts are very simple. In fact, the piano plays the same measure for about a third of the song. It is the part that actually sounds like rain, I just came up with the pattern on the vibes during band one day, and thought it resembled rain, and used it. The flute is the melody here, and i think it signifyes rain prettyweel. it's soft, simple, and high (I've always imagined the notation for rain to be very high, I'm not sure why). So, enjoy! media type="file" key="rainmov1-august.mp3"

My second movement was meant to be my soft, slow piece, and i'd like to think I followed thse directions to the best of my abilities. I used garage band to make it, and I used an acoustic guitar recording I found over and over again. I have a rain sound effect playing softly in the backound (I actually think this is the only movement I used it in). My favorite part is the really simple piano part I picked out on one of the plug-in pianos that Miss G has. This is my favorite movement, and I hope you enjoy it, too.  media type="file" key="august-rainmov2.mp3"
 * Movement 2: **

**Movement 3:** Movement three was supposed to be more up-beat than the rest of my movement, so i thought it would be easiest to compose it in garage band. It uses piano, like the other movement, but i added shakers and a couple simple drum beats. I hope it captures the same elements, even with he heavier instruments added in. Make sure to tell me what you think! media type="file" key="august-rainmov3.mp3"