J. Lee Graham

The attached is an unfinished sketch for a serenade for winds (2 clarinets, 2 horns, 2 bassoons) that I started on New Years Day. I've made it through the development section of this, the first movement, and I've checked through all of Mozart's wind music to see if I somehow lifted something from him...but I still have a horrible feeling I've plagiarised part of this.

If anyone hears something in this that I might have lifted from somewhere else, I'd be very grateful if you'd let me know, and who/what you think it might be. I don't mind similarity - there is going to be that - but an outright quote is unacceptable. I don't want to get all the way through this only to find it was someone else's.

Thanks in advance.'

P.S. - I've already consulted a couple of wind players, who have let me know that a couple of the phrases in the development section are too long to be played without a breath, and that I'll have to re-write them somehow. If you see anything else that seems amiss, let me know.