A productive weekend!

So I sat down this weekend with a small fragment of melody in my head...and decided to just run with it. What happened was a brand new piece for a cappella choir based on the Edmund Waller poem "Go, lovely Rose." The poetry is beautiful and unobtrusive, talking to a flower about the love of his life, who doesn't even know how special she is. This poem hits home especially hard with me, because of the love of my life, who rarely has time to stop and see how truly wonderful she is. I tried to play with different variations in harmony with the piece, seeing how different variations in tonal structure effect the overall tone of the words and shade the piece a specific way. I tried to fit the harmonies fairly close together, as opposed to some of my other works that really shift all over the vocal spectrum. I think the piece is fairly solid, and achieves the effects I was going for. I posted it to my myspace in the top spot. Enjoy!