It's pretty gratifying to finish a piece of music. It's pretty daunting to release it to the public via a blog. And while I've really completed only one movement of a piece titled Two Psalms, I am still basking in the glow of the movement's final barline, and have decided to post the entire movement here.
The composition of the piece actually took substantially less time than the notation of it. If you're accustomed to looking at musical scores, you'll see that there are many unusual features to this score, all of which are designed to communicate something specific to the performers who will be reading from it.
This opening movement constitutes just under ten minutes of music, with the second Psalm (which does not yet exist) expected to be somewhere between four and five minutes long. It is now very, very late, and I must go to bed.
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