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Determination, part 2
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Part 2 of my two-part piece. (Together, they exceeded the maximum upload limit of 10MB per song, so I feature them separately but in order).
[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 #75
Peak in subgenre #21
Author
Adam Colbert
Rights
2006
Uploaded
December 21, 2008
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MP3 2.9 MB • 128 kbps • 3:08
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 :). "Determination" is a Sonata-Rondo of sorts, with the main theme never doing the same thing twice. MM. 414-434 was written with the image of Native Americans going to war on mind. It ends with an "amen" type of Picardy 3rd cadence.
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