Symphonic Poem No 4 - Original composition - Musescore & EastWest

A mild hybrid of Musescore (Muse Sounds) with a hint of EastWest Hollywood Strings (added in Logic Pro) to give them a bit more bite in places.
It started life in 2021 as a technical exercise in writing something fugue-like ('ish) and with a polyrhythm (7/8 over 2/4). Silly boy.
I couldn't think of a title for it but it always reminds me of a film scene of WW2 German soldiers driving through an Alpine pass but, as with all my stuff, it wasn't written with film score in mind.
Some of my symphonic pieces in Musescore:
• Symphonic Poem No 1 -...
• Symphonic Poem No 2 -...
• Symphonic Poem No. 6 -...
• Symphonic Poem No. 5 -...
• Symphonic Poem No 4 -...
Some of my chamber pieces in Musescore:
• Andante for Oboe & Str...
• Dawn Chorus for Oboe &...
• Two Little Bits of Str...
Some of my choral pieces in Musescore:
• Ave Verum Corpus - Ori...
• Elegy - Original compo...
• Vocalise - Original Co...
Original compositions by Jeff Ward, written in Musescore 4 with Muse Sounds, sometimes remixed in Logic Pro X, choral works supplemented by EastWest Hollywood Choir WordBuilder for phonetic lyrics, and/or very rarely Hollywood Strings. See video description above for further details.
© Copyright Jeff Ward 2023

[@SpargurYarnCrafts]

Okay this was a lot of fun. I love 7/8 time. If there was one critique I could give, it's that it feels..comfortable. I think you have a great dramatic sequence here, and I wanted it to feel a little more wild and uncontrolled. I wanted it to feel like it was going to fall apart at any second. I think you could experiment with messing with the time signatures to give the listener some dramatic surprises: downbeats where you don't expect them, a sudden 1/8 bar to throw off the comfortable rhythm, something to really force the ear to listen. Great stuff, really, I can't wait to see what else you create!

[@JeffWardMusic]

Thank you! I'm a big fan of 7/8 (being a progressive rock aficionado with an unhealthy dedication to Genesis). I love your suggestions here and agree wholeheartedly. I always felt that, although the fugal'ish, fugue-like, not-a fugue but trying to be one, build-up section needed more differentiation as it progressed. But, as always, that takes a massive amount of skill..Maybe one day! Thanks again.