Listening to Tia’s composition I felt a journey, a story was being conveyed. The melody itself was regularly repeated, accompanied with other interments that built on the main melody played by a piano.
Did I think it fit the the video?
Yes, The music does, fit the video, it allows the audience to step back and intake the atmosphere being displayed, the music is at a constant easy rhythm, that’s easy to digest, and follow, throughout section A, the same melody is repeated throughout every bar, which becomes repetitive and can take away from the expiring, even when it was accompanied by different instruments at times. Referencing to my own score in every bar leading to a section, I had two separating melodies, that built a less repeated sound, and I had a lot more to work with. Tia’s piece would have benefitted from more melodic ideas, and inclusion of a nether melody, to take away from the repetitive feeling that was presented as the melody was rinsed and repeated.
The B section, however, I heard a lot of improvement, the journey, that I mentioned came from Tia herself, as you can har her improvement throughout her piece, there was a lot more diversity and a lot more changes in melodies, making a change to the music instead of keeping it the same, and all the same she gave more thought in how the music sounded and the structure was better heard and presented. With this, there’s a drastic change between the beginning of the song, when she establish a simple identity and melody with the song, and the ending of the song, when she learned how to use Sibelius effectively.
Overall, Tia’s Composition is beautiful, and it really shows her progress, If she had more time develop the composition, I’d say to go back and adjust the beginning, because section A and section B at times sounds like two different sections, its not necessarily a bad thing, but with the progression and the knowledge she knows now, she could alter her beginning to sound as correspondent and as improved to her ending. Great use of Sibelius, and Logic X, and was able to create a stunning composition.