Claire+S

media type="file" key="Sheong_p4MusicScenery.mp3" //Blog Post: Week 1:// "Once one of my friends decided to have a huge summer party/picnic at Independence Grove. She invited me, as well as many of her family friends. I rode my bike down a trail, and wheeled it into a clearing where everyone was unwrapping sandwiches, and opening coolers. We had Chinese and American food. Us kids went for a bike ride while the parents barbequed. The gravel crackled under our tires; the grass was dappled with shadows; everywhere there was wind and shouting and the fresh smell of summer. I don’t recall what exactly we ate afterward, but I remember that I liked it. Then we languished by the lake, dropping bread into the water only to have foot+ long catfish swallow them whole. The day was filled with blinding sun on our limbs, running in and out of the shade."
 * Musical Scenery**

//Blog Post Week 3:// "I think that a versatile theme for my symphony might be the range of emotions that one feels throughout the day. I plan to have the beginning be slightly more neutral or generally upbeat, and then make dramatic contrasts in the next 2/3 movements to emotions such as sadness/loneliness, anger/frustration, etc. I want to make the last movement very spontaneous, possibly a light-headed whirl optimism high or the previously mentioned frustration."
 * Symphony (Made in Finale Notepad*.)**

__*Sheet music shown below each description.__

media type="file" key="Sheong_M1.mp3" The first mvt. is mainly just a base for the rest of the song, which will contain similar melodies etc. and/or plays off parts of mvt. 1. I didn't want it to lean towards any specific feel, as opposed to the other mvts. There is only one instrument used here (Grand piano.), and because of this it will most likely remain this way for the rest of the symphony. The end of this mvt. is a transition into the next.
 * ~Mvt. 1 (Neutral/Upbeat)**

> > __//**Sheet music (Differently colored notes etc. just indicate different layers.)**//__ > > **~Mvt. 2 (Calmer.)** > media type="file" key="Sheong_mvt2.mp3" > This mvt. was originally intended to be sad/solemn, but it has ended up differently. The beginning is still a little fast, but the overall tempo eventually decreases. Pedal is used to create a different atmosphere, and I held some notes longer than the others following so that they resonated throughout that measure and created a dominant melody. The alternating eighth notes with pedal are supposed to create a sort of background accompaniment for the dominant melody. (Measure 20 etc.) The mvt. gets slightly brighter as it nears the end. (As a preparation for the next mvt.) > > And unlike the 1st mvt., I actually fixed up my unneccessary rests! (...most of them... my laziness kicked in by measure 24...) **(>^_^')>** (Ta da!) > > __//**Sheet Music (Sorry for extraneous measures.)**//__ > > > > media type="file" key="Sheong_mvt3.mp3" This mvt. was supposed to be faster than the others. To help this, I made the time signature 6/8. The melody in mvt. 1, measure 1, is played on in this song. The sounds are brighter, and I added flute to help the mood of the piece. To create contrast, I made a segment in the middle that had a slower tempo, then went back to the quicker one.
 * You may be wondering why my rests look so excessive. (EX: Measure 1, bass clef, Measure 3/Measure 5, treble clef) Well, Finale sometimes does it automatically when you add/delete notes, so even though something like 2 half rests is redundant when you could use 1 whole one instead, it just happened and I was too lazy to fix it.
 * Oh, and disregard that little ghost note in the bass clef. It's just because my cursor was there.
 * ~Mvt. 3 (Happiness)**


 * I'm sorry that one of the lines fades out at measure 10. I have no idea why and while writing this I had the same problem (either a measure of the bass/treble/flute fading out.) numerous times. Sometimes it fixed itself, but in this case it didn't.

//**__Sheet Music__**//

media type="file" key="Sheong_mvt4.mp3"
 * ~Mvt 4 (Stormy?)**

I am not sure specifically what feeling this has ended up as. It was intended to be very intense anger, but now it seems more like simply a bad mood. I used Timpani for background noise/rumbling, and in some places, to accentuate a beat more. Silences are applied as tension, and to not make the piece sound too rushed at some parts. Some discordance is used in the middle of the piece.


 * Another Finale problem. (Measures 6-8 most evident.) I could not set two layers/clefs to have different dynamics, and the same fade-out difficulty (*See Mvt. 3 error bullet.*) appears to have occured, so the timpani doesn't stand out that much there. (Although it was intended to be heard slightly over the piano.)
 * Several measures are missing in between, and at the end. Files have yet to be uploaded.


 * //__Sheet Music__//**