After a lot of deliberating, I finally managed to find a way to set Wilfred Owen's
Dulce Et Decorum Est to music. Rather than setting a tune to the poem, I firstly annotated it, giving different moods and grooves to each section, and then wrote it out as a kind of "graphic score". This should give the feeling of a kind of structured group improvisation.
To be honest, when we tried to play it through in my composition lecture, it didn't really fall into place. I'm hoping that after some time working with my band I'll start to get a feel for it as I'm quite excited about having the freedom to really explore it.
It does look quite pretty though.. :P
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