Join our Bradley Composition community in Final Bar Line Frenzy this summer. Our goal is to collectively reach 100 final bar lines (completed pieces) this summer! Once you complete a composition, comment on this post. Tell us the title, instrumentation, and provide a link to the piece if possible. Also include the number out of 100 in your comment to help us track our progress. For example, the first person to comment on the post would add 1/100, the second person would add 2/100, etc.
What constitutes a completed piece for Final Bar Line Frenzy? It can be an original composition, an arrangement, a transcription, a fixed media piece, a project created in a DAW, a multimedia project, a multi movement piece, or a collection of short pieces. Use your discretion, but think of this as a completed piece that is of a quality that you would be happy to present in composition lessons, is ready for performance, and would be ready to send off to a publisher or feature on audio streaming services.
Help us reach our goal of 100 Final Bar Lines this summer!
This is a short arrangement of Who Are You Now by Justin Hayward. The instrumentation is for a small three-part cello choir. This was the arrangement that I wrote for my recent proposal which was then performed by some cellist! I decided I would work on it a little more after the semester ended to finalize it to be used later.
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GqDRXAmZjRyqNuA6Q36jdUMpSxJIWLjN?usp=share_link
1/100!
DeleteGood job Andy! And, a huge congratulations to you from our studio!
DeleteThis is an arrangement of the accompaniment of a choral piece by PINKZEBRA. It is arranged for brass quintet.
ReplyDeletehttps://musescore.com/user/39892229/scores/10852198/s/DTfpDo?share=copy_link
2/100
Good job Seth!
DeleteHoist the Anchors! is an original composition made to be the theme or trailer music of a pretend video game. It includes a full orchestra with guitar, ukulele, drumset, and slap bass.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/8i6tkVx5AIc
3/100
Great job Sean, and welcome to the studio! I love the special effects you added like the seagull sounds at the end!
DeleteAmper Sand is an adaptation for saxophone sextet. I've already sent the piece to two ensembles for performance!
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1j8ql5zQCNJkGH8Q-diBffYD5oQIMlW8_/view?usp=share_link
4/100
Entering Orbit, my piece for Concert Band, got a rework and re-engraving! 5/100 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xnciOxzffF0pj2BJjTdb1yjI6pMLnF5W/view?usp=share_link
ReplyDeleteNice work, Jonah! Summer is a great time for score clean-up and intense engraving!
DeleteUntinctur'd by Art is my newest concert band piece that I just completed and that is being premiered next month in Idaho.
ReplyDeletehttps://on.soundcloud.com/BgTbP (Please forgive the midi...it is NOT my forte!)
6/100
Thanks for joining us in Final Bar Line Frenzy! I'm excited to hear about the premiere!
Delete"RPG Hometown Theme" is background music that would play while exploring the main character's hometown in an RPG-style video game. It features oboe, strings, wood block, and carillon. The wood blocks and carillon simulate a clock.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/uNwl5Im_4rk
7/100
My latest Video Game collaboration is up live on Spotify, check it out!
ReplyDeletehttps://open.spotify.com/album/3L2BqJHNMWPC5mjjkgF3Vv?si=Gy2xtTeDQXqp87R8eQYkhA
8/100
One of the movements to my new bassoon sonata (possibly concerto later?) is finally finished (some changes are still to come, I'm sure)!
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16Go7jeASmWpM-TF2VBocYtyg8ifqoXL_?usp=sharing
9/100
DeleteHere is the first draft of my latest percussion ensemble piece (I'll just be showing the score because there are quite a few instruments that I call for that are not in the Muse score sound files)!
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/163dDT7NDex-pB6HSb7www8TwoGOftvPB/view?usp=sharing
10/100
DeleteI am so fortunate this fall to have the Heartland Festival Orchestra play a medley of pieces from a video game I scored my sophomore year, Bellissimo! Below is the score and MIDI audio.
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1RldbpzVGJ_yIWPqNdXjZwajmkvuUxX5N/view?usp=share_link
https://drive.google.com/file/d/110aBeCJutpB2mS2HmVtlLkACuyYkmx1Y/view?usp=share_link
11/100
This is going to be a big one for me.
ReplyDeleteI've been working with the Game Development Masters Program this summer and I just finished the last track for them. I don't think I can easily showcase these, but I made 4 character themes and 4 ringtones for said characters which would be 19/100. Today I finished the Secret Room theme for 20/100.
I also completed an album with 9 songs, which you can listen to on pretty much any streaming platforms but here's the spotify link: https://open.spotify.com/album/5CPJIdmtQNQHlZUeUxFRh5?si=zY-_1sjbTHSQyxf_Ndxk6g
29/100
I also finished a bari saxophone piece early on in the summer: https://www.xavierchapman.com/current-projects/bari-sax-piece
30/100
And with Jonah I also had the opportunity to have the music from Disaster Golf, the game I worked on sophmore year with the game design senior capstone, to be played by the Heartland Festival Orchestra in the fall. Here's the link to the google drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/11Xa9P335pILA_gfDzCoG4KOAOoa2fAwc?usp=drive_link
31/100
This is something I finished much earlier in the summer but just haven't gotten to posting! Below is the fourth (and currently only) movement of my Marimba Concerto.
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1P_SuE3UgJnebI0SrD40mnIgK9D7lGNbQ/view?usp=sharing - Score
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rql1ml4Og73ud3RLV8rTQyWAEmO566NX/view?usp=sharing - Audio
32/100
I was experimenting some more with video game-style music and wrote this carnival theme. It features an accordion and a tuba.
ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/lhNa2w6HUX0
33/100
(This is Stephanie, by the way, lol)
DeleteI recently completed a work for solo piano and orchestra called "Odyssey" that I hope to play for the concerto-aria contest this upcoming year. Check it out!
ReplyDeletehttps://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JA_336qFm3KBx38EiXEK9Dex9VAGzLt2?usp=sharing
34/100
DeleteI've been working on this extremely random piece for a couple of weeks now, but I haven't gotten around to posting it yet. It's called "Senseless Rambling" because... well... I pretty much just wrote whatever I felt! It's for orchestra and has three movements (but I plan on adding more later!), each of which have no correlation and were loosely named based on the personalities of some of my friends.
ReplyDeleteI. The Outlander
II. The Architect
III. The Gladiator (This is the most "out there" movement. It is a WILD circus march, because why not?!)
I hope it's good!
https://on.soundcloud.com/tnR6w
35/100
Before the summer is officially over, here are some of the compositions I've been working on!
ReplyDeleteDoom (36/100)
Electric Lead Guitar, Electric Rhythm Guitar, Synths, Piano, Bass Drum Set, Big Drums, Screaming vocals (at the end), strings
I made the beginning of this a while ago for a video game competition that I was a finalist in and finished it this summer. The music was set to footage of non-audio footage of the game Doom Eternal. I always wanted to make some type of synth metal music, so this was a ton of fun to compose! In Doom you’ll hear plenty of asymmetric time signatures, metal breakdowns, a contrasting middle section, and by far the most intense ending I’ve made.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/auiv5ae2jjvdvhxabnayl/Doom-8-29-23.mp3?rlkey=m3njywtc01yzs1qkwftos57e4&dl=0
Big Bass (name pending) (37/100)
Electric Lead Guitar, Electric Rhythm Guitar, Synths, Piano, Bass Drum Set, Big Drums, Screaming vocals (at the end), strings, choir
I had an idea of starting a piece with a low, crunchy bass and went from there. Video games like (again) Doom Eternal and Castlevania were influences, as were other metal bands at the time.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/nyg9spwted370v7gh1u5f/Big-Bass-8-29-23-1.mp3?rlkey=qnupw4lzjx3mzp2i1odan5a4z&dl=0
Petrichor (38/100)
Violin 1, Violin 2, Viola, Cello, Double Bass, Flute 1, Flute 2, Clarinet, Oboe, Horn, Trombone, Tuba, Choir, Piano
Much different from the previous two pieces. Petrichor is meant to be background music or overworld music for a video game.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ggpp95xl7zs64nu0dxubp/Petrichor-8_29_23-432-hz-Output-Stereo-Out-01.wav?rlkey=4xvt9dkeefml5fi3fw3fxvubk&dl=0
Journey’s End (39/100)
Guitar, Guitar (harmonics), and Strings
After getting a new virtual guitar plugin and messing around, this short piece came about. I was also messing with some mixing techniques because that's something I'm definitly trying to get better at.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/vlw66j9k2ir30qtad7rhb/Journey-s-End-Guitar-and-Strings-8_22_23.wav?rlkey=jp6i0s1axkji06j6m036bfqzd&dl=0
Bittersweet Night (40/100)
Guitar, Kalimba, Violin, Cello, Double Bass, Horn, Piano (with effects), Choir
Wrote most of this a while ago, but I came back to this piece and added/changed a lot - Enough to say I finished it this summer. I hope to have another version eventually with real vocals.
It’s actually one of my favorite pieces I’ve composed.
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ui5kdgc7bdaybfh81khzp/Bittersweet-Night-9-16-23.wav?rlkey=a52qfrgo3t1pe9rzq7tw4ak09&dl=0