Emotions Suite: "Warm and Calm" Creating the Atmosphere
In order to show more about the compositional process, I wanted to spend some time taking readers though my thought process while writing the different pieces in the emotions suite. For this article, I wanted to talk a bit about how I arrived at the decisions for different parts of the piece. If you haven't had a chance to hear it yet, you can check out the video on my YouTube channel!! (Shameless plug included today) The first decision I made was on what kind of instrumentation I wanted. I wanted this to have the feeling of a full orchestra with some percussion to give it a richer, more diverse, and more full sound. So I created a Finale file that had all of the instruments I was likely to use and that I might use. After that, I wanted to figure out what key area this should be in. I felt that B-flat would have a warmer sound to it (no particular reason: I just wanted B-flat). After this came the more nitty gritty work: how do I c...