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I've been wanting to write an Ave Maria FOREVER but have never had any good ideas for one. I've tried to just sit down and come up with a melody for one but it always turned out like crap.
Anyway, so this morning when I was about to take a shower, I start tinkering around with the piano. You see, the piano's just outside of the bathroom downstairs, and I've got paino ADD -- whenever there's a piano near, I MUST play stuff. Anyway, so I fiddle around in F# minor, which is one of my favourite keys and I do this neat chord progression by accident, and suddenly it hits me... THAT is my Ave Maria!!
I jet upstairs to start working on it, and end up in the shower a half an hour later, with the first half of the song already done. I sing in the shower new ideas, and come out refreshed and ready to finish. Another hour later, and the melody and harmonies are all finished, for four-part chorus. A few more minutes to add in the dynamics and fine-tune, and voila! This is one of the most quickly-assembled pieces I've put up. But I don't think the little amount of time it took matters. I've finally written an Ave Maria! I wonder if my chorus teacher will let us sing it in the concert! :D
Anyway, so I've got it emulated here by strings. I've tried to figure out a way for y'all to follow along with the words (which are Latin), and this is what I've got -- In ()s are the time in the song where each part starts. In <>s are whole verses. Each verse is repeated (AABB) and then it finishes with a short Amen section. In []s are where certain lines or words are repeated. Hope you can follow! Enjoy. ^____^
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(0:00) Ave Maria gratia plena
(0:12) Dominus tecum benedicta
(0:24) Tu in mulieribus
(0:36) Et benedictus [x2]
(0:48) Fructus ventris tui Jesus, Jesus.
> [section repeats]
<
(2:17) Sancta Maria [x4]
(2:33) Mater Dei [x2]
(2:44) Ora pro nobis [x3]
(2:57) Peccatoribus [x2]
(3:09) Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae
> [section repeats]
(4:36) Amen (x8)
Anyway, so this morning when I was about to take a shower, I start tinkering around with the piano. You see, the piano's just outside of the bathroom downstairs, and I've got paino ADD -- whenever there's a piano near, I MUST play stuff. Anyway, so I fiddle around in F# minor, which is one of my favourite keys and I do this neat chord progression by accident, and suddenly it hits me... THAT is my Ave Maria!!
I jet upstairs to start working on it, and end up in the shower a half an hour later, with the first half of the song already done. I sing in the shower new ideas, and come out refreshed and ready to finish. Another hour later, and the melody and harmonies are all finished, for four-part chorus. A few more minutes to add in the dynamics and fine-tune, and voila! This is one of the most quickly-assembled pieces I've put up. But I don't think the little amount of time it took matters. I've finally written an Ave Maria! I wonder if my chorus teacher will let us sing it in the concert! :D
Anyway, so I've got it emulated here by strings. I've tried to figure out a way for y'all to follow along with the words (which are Latin), and this is what I've got -- In ()s are the time in the song where each part starts. In <>s are whole verses. Each verse is repeated (AABB) and then it finishes with a short Amen section. In []s are where certain lines or words are repeated. Hope you can follow! Enjoy. ^____^
<
(0:00) Ave Maria gratia plena
(0:12) Dominus tecum benedicta
(0:24) Tu in mulieribus
(0:36) Et benedictus [x2]
(0:48) Fructus ventris tui Jesus, Jesus.
> [section repeats]
<
(2:17) Sancta Maria [x4]
(2:33) Mater Dei [x2]
(2:44) Ora pro nobis [x3]
(2:57) Peccatoribus [x2]
(3:09) Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae
> [section repeats]
(4:36) Amen (x8)
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This is truly a unique take on Ave Maria. I have to admit that after listening to this, I'm almost ashamed that my setting of those words is too mainstream, but this version takes the text to a new level and challenges the pre-conceived notions.
Furthermore, I think this piece demonstrates a much higher level of compositional maturity. Adoramus te, glorificamus te! If you need someone to sing, I can probably help you make a recording. because this definately needs a live version
Furthermore, I think this piece demonstrates a much higher level of compositional maturity. Adoramus te, glorificamus te! If you need someone to sing, I can probably help you make a recording. because this definately needs a live version
Hey now, hey now! Don't you dare sell yourself short! =o Your setting is fantastic! Mine certainly isn't better. Just a different take on it. And besides, I've probably made some amateurish mistakes. I've never taken formal classes in compositions, so there's gotta be stuff just... wrong about it. >.<
And, I appreciate the maturity comment! It took me about three years of writing music before anything I wrote didn't sound like it was a joke. >__< Though, I still like to have some fun. (See, Bunny Scherzo, somewhere in my gallery. xD)
Hopefully I can get the madrigal choir at my high school to sing this. Though, we just did an Ave Maria so I'm not sure if my teacher will want to do another. It was Biebl's too. Nothing touches that setting. And I doubt any other Ave Maria will ever be written that's better. <3 Plus, this piece is pretty hard. I'm not sure if she'll think it's compatible with a high-school group. Even though it is an audition-only ensemble... hm...
Thanks for your offer. Be warned, I may take you up on it someday! And thanks for the comment, and the favourite! Both of us desperately need some more traffic on our FA pages. Too bad furries aren't the biggest classical music fans. >.<
And, I appreciate the maturity comment! It took me about three years of writing music before anything I wrote didn't sound like it was a joke. >__< Though, I still like to have some fun. (See, Bunny Scherzo, somewhere in my gallery. xD)
Hopefully I can get the madrigal choir at my high school to sing this. Though, we just did an Ave Maria so I'm not sure if my teacher will want to do another. It was Biebl's too. Nothing touches that setting. And I doubt any other Ave Maria will ever be written that's better. <3 Plus, this piece is pretty hard. I'm not sure if she'll think it's compatible with a high-school group. Even though it is an audition-only ensemble... hm...
Thanks for your offer. Be warned, I may take you up on it someday! And thanks for the comment, and the favourite! Both of us desperately need some more traffic on our FA pages. Too bad furries aren't the biggest classical music fans. >.<
Well, obviously Schubert was just a total musical genius. Everything he wrote was so elegantly crafted and intellectual. The thing I like about Biebl's setting is how perfectly it presents the text in a clear and reverent way. I feel like listening to Schubert's Ave Maria is an exercise... It's very heady. Like I think about the music when I listen to it -- 'ohh, that chord progression happened there, what a neat choice' or 'what a fantastic cadence that was!' But with Biebl's, there is absolutely no intellectual focus. It is music which I find I can just... enjoy, without having to think about. It's very filling. Maybe you've just not heard a good recording of it? Here's the best I've found -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WSbq3TCcd0
But, I mean... comparing masterpieces is silly!
But, I mean... comparing masterpieces is silly!
After listening to that link, I think it's safe to say that that song was one of my high school's rare flukes. It is a really good setting. One of my good friends here in town has his undergrad in composition and I was arguing with him about whether or not it's important to have the words match the music. Most of his music focuses on the music above all else, while I said that the music should befit the words, otherwise there's really no point in having them.
By the way, he's stridentweasel on FA. He has some interesting music you should definately check out.
By the way, he's stridentweasel on FA. He has some interesting music you should definately check out.
Different pieces take different amounts of time. Sometimes I go into a piece knowing exactly what I want and where I want it to go, so it's just a matter of getting it down. But other times I go into a piece not sure of exactly what I want. :P This was one where the whole thing popped into my head, and I was scrambling to get it into the computer before it fell out. xD
Oohh... transcription fun! :D
I'm sorta hesitant about throwing the sheet music around, especially because I hope it to be published some day. I dunno... Probably I'm overcautious but, you know, better safe than sorry. :P
Also, I dunno how a harpsichord part would sound for this! =o I always thought of it as a standalone vocal piece... I'll tell you what -- if you write a harpsichord part for it, I can splice the two tracks together so we can hear what it'd sound like. :D (I love collabs!)
It's in 4/4, 80 beats per minute, F# minor, 23 measures then a repeat, then another repeat at 46 (going back to 24), a ritard on 52, and a fermata on 53, the last measure.
That should be all the info you need, right? The rest is good by ear? :D I'm excited if you decide to do it. ^_^
I'm sorta hesitant about throwing the sheet music around, especially because I hope it to be published some day. I dunno... Probably I'm overcautious but, you know, better safe than sorry. :P
Also, I dunno how a harpsichord part would sound for this! =o I always thought of it as a standalone vocal piece... I'll tell you what -- if you write a harpsichord part for it, I can splice the two tracks together so we can hear what it'd sound like. :D (I love collabs!)
It's in 4/4, 80 beats per minute, F# minor, 23 measures then a repeat, then another repeat at 46 (going back to 24), a ritard on 52, and a fermata on 53, the last measure.
That should be all the info you need, right? The rest is good by ear? :D I'm excited if you decide to do it. ^_^
I would love to publish. =o
Trying to do this with my choir at school was quite a learning experience... I don't think this piece is exactly right for performance... It's good on strings, but would be much harder than I expected to do vocally, well...
And thank you so much! :) Your praise is very sweet. :3
Trying to do this with my choir at school was quite a learning experience... I don't think this piece is exactly right for performance... It's good on strings, but would be much harder than I expected to do vocally, well...
And thank you so much! :) Your praise is very sweet. :3
I ran into that same problem with my first choral work. I used WAY too much Chromaticism. Only a professional choir could pull it off. Your average parish choir didn't stand a chance.
Then again, the piece I wrote for my choir we did sing, they couldn't figure out my Eb Major, Gb Major, C 7th with 3b and 5b progression.
You've written a TON of stuff here. I need to start posting some more of my pieces. I just take so long to finish anything these days that I don't have anything recent I can post apart from that choral work.
Dominus tecum
Then again, the piece I wrote for my choir we did sing, they couldn't figure out my Eb Major, Gb Major, C 7th with 3b and 5b progression.
You've written a TON of stuff here. I need to start posting some more of my pieces. I just take so long to finish anything these days that I don't have anything recent I can post apart from that choral work.
Dominus tecum
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