Kindred Spirits Analysis

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Kindred Spirits, composed by Brian Balmages, was chosen as our second piece for CMEA because of its beauty and the contrast it offers to itself and the set as a whole. The other two pieces are intricate but don’t offer the same contrast or meaning that Kindred Spirits does. Kindred Spirits is the most contrasting piece we have in our CMEA set. Kindred Spirits is unlike any other musical piece. It was written for a memorial concert for the death of two boys, but it was also written for their older brother, who killed them.
Everything within Kindred Spirits represents Nicholas Browning, his parents, and his two brothers. Every note change, key change, time change, and dynamic represent a turn in events of what seemed to be a normal day for the family. The mournful emotions of the death of the two boys are felt throughout the piece and these sudden outbursts that appear from nowhere represent the actions and feelings of Nicholas Browning. The beginning of the piece starts off as a memory of the two boys and their characteristics. They were able to bring joy to anyone they came across, and the music represents the warmth and comfort people felt around the boys. If they were a season, they would be spring, bringing joy to everyone and …show more content…
It offers a certain style and feeling that no other musical piece could ever represent. Kindred Spirits ties our opening piece up and sets up something unsuspected for our last piece. The emotions that are represented in Kindred Spirits are continually contrasting with each other. There are sudden outbursts, warmth, and mournfulness all felt in one song. This is because Kindred Spirits tells two sides of the same story while also taking into account the feelings of everyone that knew the family. All of this could only be understood and felt when played together by the whole band because each part represents an emotion that contrasts with another

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