Music and Programming
After the previous post (and one complaint!) I decided to make a JavaScript version of the Messiah Time Calculator below.
Just check the boxes for the movements you wish to include. To toggle the state of an entire part, just click on the part header. Totals are listed at the bottom.
I was discussing with a colleague how long the Christmas portion of the Messiah was compared to the whole thing. Feeling the need to justify my thought that it was certainly more than an hour, I built the attached handy-dandy Messiah time calculator spreadsheet.
Subject: Sanctus, by Aaron Giles
Woohoo! My first original composition.
It started off as a composition project for my Music Theory class, which meant that it had some constraints on it. I’m not yet sure whether working under constraints is good or bad, but in this case I think it worked out well.
Subject: SATB + descant harmonization of Ecce, Deus by Alfred E. Fedak.
Interestingly, I did not first encounter this hymn tune in its original form. Instead, the music was set to a different text (“Mary Heard the Angel’s Blessing”) and published in Voices, Found, a supplemental hymnal that focuses on texts written by women.
I gravitated to this piece because we elected to sing it in Advent, and it was in a minor key. Personally, I love minor key Advent/Christmas music, and also really loved the 3/4 lilt of this relatively simple tune.