Music - My vocal composition.

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My vocal composition takes several influences, but few of them were direct; by this I mean that I rarely intended to mimic anyone as I wrote the piece but I unknowingly did take influences. I chose the second option for this assignment: a solo voice with or without backing singers, accompanied by a group of at least four instruments. I chose this option as it was directly relevant to me for I have been a singer songwriter for bands for several years; also recently I composed the music to the lyrics of ‘the Caucasion Chalk Circle’ by Brecht for an amateur production. Due to these experiences of composition of this nature I had my own style of putting words to music all ready mapped out before I started writing this piece.

        I chose the second set of lyrics written Lorenz Hart; I did a brief background on where they are taken from and discovered that the song is called ‘Ev’rybody Loves You’ and it was written to be in a musical called ‘I’d Rather be Right’ but it was dropped before the New York opening but still published with Richard Rodgers’ music in September 1937. I did this background check as I wanted to insure that I had an original take on the lyrics and not follow the composer’s intentions.

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        I decided to compose my piece on ‘Micro Logic’ using a synthesizer as I wanted to use a variety of instruments which I didn’t have access to. I decided that my music would be essentially 1960’s psychedelic as I am very fond of the style and the lyrics are quite ‘cheesy’ which relates to bands like ‘the Small Faces’’ lyrics. With this mind, I composed a basic two chord verse (A and E) which I thought sounded quite retro and was easy to compose a melody over. I thought an organ was essential in order to create the poppy catchy ...

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