Carry Sweetly Home to Me (Original Song)

This is an original song I've been working on for a while (I wanted to write something so simple that even I could complete it!). I composed it with an image in my head of a ship leaving port bound for a distant land, and all the farewells that would accompany such a voyage. It was a highly piano-centric composition process, and I'm not quite sure if I like the piano version or the orchestra version better. I'll post the piano sheet music here soon!

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Libraries/Software:

Woodwinds:
- Cinematic Studio Woodwinds
- Spitfire Symphonic Woodwinds: I preferred the clarinet and the bassoon

Brass:
- Cinematic Studio Brass

Percussion:
- Spitfire Percussion
- Metropolis Ark 2 Piano

Strings:
- Cinematic Studio Strings and Solo Strings
- Metropolis Ark 2: layered the High Legato on the first violins throughout
- Session Strings Pro 2: layered on the high strings during the climax just to 'push' them
- SF Solo Strings: only used it on one note in the quartet section

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Artwork Tag (many thanks to the artist and photographer): "Antiope Clipper Ship by Montague Dawson (1895-1973) British Oil on Canvas" by mharrsch is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

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"Carry Sweetly Home to Me" composed by Ben Mendiola.