The title for this piece is called Civil War Remembrance. I love history and have lately been doing some research on the Civil War. I tried to incorporate a story with this piece from the first person point of view of a soldier. The intro being the soldier alone with his own feelings about the war while hearing distant sounds from the battlefield. The second part when the battalion has gotten together to march off to battle. The third part increases tempo and tries to capture some of the emotions that one might have while in battle. The fourth part is the end of the battle where the soldier is try to digest everything that happened as well as helping fallen friends and recapturing himself to head back to camp. The last part was the soldier alone again at camp, after the battle, reflecting upon the days events and realizing the days horror is bound to repeat itself.

The piece is written in D major and changes to its relative minor (Bm) and the back to D.  The piece starts at 121 bpm and changes to 150 bpm the goes back to 121 bpm.  I incorporated a lot of different chord changes to try and give the piece a lot of movement to try and capture the feel of marching or the quick pace of battle. I also used a bass drum to try to add texture of canon fire on the battle field and to separate the different parts of the piece.

I do have a few questions I would like to ask. Do you feel that the bass line is to repetitive? Do you feel that the tempo changes at measure 19 and 37 are to abrupt? Thank you for taking the time to listen to this composition and I look forward to your input.


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For the final project I changed a few things around.I chose to make the opening violin play an octave higher then it originally did in Project 3.I wanted to change the range of the violin so that I wasn't like the solo piece at the end.
 I changed and made the accelerando a little longer before going into section C and added a "cavalry charge" feel to try and make the tempo change a little less abrupt.In Section C at measure 29 I started removing the right hand accompaniment a little and removed the bass completely.Section C was supposed to try and give the fell of battle so I thought that I would take away certain elements to hopefully give a sense that the battle was slowly coming to an end before the tempo changed again.
In section E for the solo violin I restructured a few notes to try and get a better flow then I had with Project 3.
I look forward to hearing your feedback.Thanks.


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