Philip's First Class Presentation

Ok... so I've been experiencing some technical difficulties with blogging which are somewhat frustrating, but hopefully my post will work this time. My progression was presented in class on Friday. It was valuable to sit back and hear my composition played so that my classmates and I could critique it. I think it was generally well received; my tension contour was accurately identified, and I liked the sonorities I ended up with. However, just as I expected, it wasn't perfect. There were a few chords I needed to rearrange, and a comment was made that some of the chords weren't perceived as having a clear tension contour as they sounded too much alike. To improve the contour at this point, I rearranged a few of the chords and then altered and removed some of the notes to create the amount of tension I desired in the chord. I think I also might try revoicing some of the chords to see what I come up with.