Name: Determination, part 1
Channel: Adam Colbert
Description: Free MP3 download. Part 1 of my two-part piece. (Together, they exceeded the maximum upload limit of 10MB per song, so I feature them separately but in order).

Determination, part 1

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Part 1 of my two-part piece. (Together, they exceeded the maximum upload limit of 10MB per song, so I feature them separately but in order).

adam colbert

[the following is copied and pasted from my main page] As a composer, I'm pretty much a composer on the side. When I have an idea, I write it down and go with it, but I don't focus all my musical energy into being a composer. I actually go through phases, or "seasons" as I would call if, of composing. I may compose very solidly for a few months on end and then not compose a thing for months on end. I am very much passionate about the compositions I do write. I also begin virtually every composition with pencil and staff paper, only transferring it onto an electronic medium (such as MakeMusic(tm)/Finale(tm)) as it becomes a finished product.

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Genre

Classical • Classical General

Charts

Peak #25

Peak in subgenre #9

Author

Adam Colbert

Rights

2008

Uploaded

December 21, 2008

Track Files

MP3

MP3 8.1 MB • 128 kbps • 8:53

Story behind the song

This is a D minor theme and variations combined with a piece I wrote a few years earlier called "Determination."  See, the variations are separated by a suspenseful A dominant-seventh chord, and I was absolutely clueless how to make a fitting Coda, so I tacked on a previous Dm piece and made it fit :).

Theme: Quarter notes
Var. 1: 8th notes
Var. 2: 8th note triplets
Var. 3: Drunken, rampaging pirate *yarrr*
Var. 4: "Anything goes" variation that is nearly impossible in parts (definitely needs at least three people and two pianos to do everything)

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