Despite the fact that I’ve missed a few days blogging, I’ve actually been doing quite a bit. I’ve written first drafts for a couple of short stories (for use when I try to build a base to sucker some agent into representing me). Likewise, I’ve also been doing a bit on some music. You can check out this link for a current work in progress. It is, as the nature of the title suggests, nowhere near complete. But it will give an idea of how music comes to me when I compose.
The theme reminds me a bit of The Moldau by Smetana and the texture is like the beginning to the Russian Easter Overture by Rimsky-Korsakov. And at the end you can hear the chord progression that I will use (with some possible edits) to modulate from E minor to E major. (In case you’re wondering, when I compose I do work both by chord structure and by melody; for example, the opening melody I came up with fairly quickly as its own melody, but the modulation is based on chord structure so I’ll work a melody around that when I get to it. Finally, after the melody and chord structure are both sound, I turn to instrumentation.)
