Tinny Song

[ewt]

I've just put another composition online. I finished this one back in September, but fell down the stairs and hurt myself rather badly before I managed to get it online and things have been rather helter-skelter since then.

hairyears suggested the text. I haven't got a name for it, although I suppose Come, my Friends would work well enough. Any other ideas?

Untitled, setting of part of Ulysses by Tennyson, for TBB. [MIDI file] [TIFF of Page 1] [TIFF of Page 2] [TIFF of Page 3] completed September 2006.

As usual, please ignore the crappy MIDI, and bear with me on having to do each separate page as a TIFF. Eventually I'll stick this stuff into Lilypond and you can have nice .pdf and .ps files instead.

As always, if any of you feel like performing any of this stuff, let me know. I'm not going to charge you money or anything but I'd be interested in any recordings.

Comments

[randomchris.livejournal.com]

(a fellow composer wanders over)

It's going to sound very muddy in that bass register - low Ds are very slow to speak and more growl than note, unless you have a real basso profundo. As the tenor part doesn't go that high, you could easily put the whole thing up a tone and keep it within the range of the average tenor, or even a minor third, which would give the bass part a lot more clarity.

For a title, I'd suggest "To Sail Beyond The Sunset" - after all, it worked for Heinlein.

[ewtikins.livejournal.com]

Noted; thanks for the suggestions!