Enya, Anyone?

I don't know why, but some of my harmonizations gravitate toward an Enya sound, moving in 3rds. I don't even own any of her CD's but I've enjoyed listening to her at my sister's house. My orchestration for Steph's oboe solo is no exception to this phenomenon. /gm/BbM/EbM/gm, FM/BbM/. I knew I was doing it right away, but I didn't know what else to do. It's hard to get a sonority out of my head. Does anyone else have bad harmonization habits? How do you deal with them?

Other than that, as I worked on my project today I reflected on how far we have come, and how much I have learned in this class. It doesn't take me quite as long to complete a project anymore. That's nice.

Yikes!

This is the time in the semester where I feel like I've been hit by a bus. The end.

I'm Just a Grasshopper

As I said in class today, studying scores teaches me that I know so little! But I'm also encouraged because I'd like to think that although I'll never be able to orchestrate as well as the people we study, maybe studying them will make me better at orchestrating small things for churches or schools.

On that note, it's very frustrating to me that most hymnal orchestrations are so poorly thought through. So many Christian musicians have become no more than peddlers, selling cheap music to those that don't know any better.

That's all I have to say.