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Okay, two things: my rework of exercise 4, and my first shot at exercise 5 and/or 6.
Exercise 4 (slightly reworked) - I could only use one of the bassoons. To use the second bassoon, I would have to put it in octaves, since you asked for little or preferably no à due. To have another bassoon in octaves wouldn't sound right, it would either be rather high in range and unbalance with the rest of the winds, or is below it would just not sound right, being too low relative to the original octave the melody is in. I know what you're saying about how it isn't flowing well. I was trying to have the melody tossed between the instruments, like a conversation. I'm still trying to preserve that idea, but I worked on making it a little more fluid, or continuous, as you put it. Does this work now?
Exercise 6a - Okay, this is going to need a lot of work. I did exercise 5 and went right on to adding the horns. Go ahead and listen with the horns muted first, I know there are plenty of things wrong floating around with the woodwinds alone. I'm concerned that this wasn't a good choice for the exercise, what do you think? I also added horns 3 and 4, but I wasn't sure what you meant by sharing between the horns and woodwinds. Should I now give the horns a melodic part somewhere in exchange that a woodwind must fulfill the resonance rule, or?
And yeah, I know I need to work out how to use less instruments, I'm using too many of them the whole time.
Oh, by the way, if you could recognize the tune I used (I changed it to minor), I would appreciate if you could tell me the name of it, because I don't. I know I've heard it before, though.
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