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Old Sep 17 2007, 9:50 PM
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Steve, I looked at your finale file and I am afraid I am going to ask for some corrections before I take a look at it.
There are too many double sharps. It makes it very time consuming for me to read and think what you are doing with the piece. It's just not practical.
Also, it could be better if you can separate all your themes and motives by an empty measure so I can understand better what are your themes. Other than that, it seems you did a good job. I take it that you decided to go with clarinet instead of flute. Good, clarinet is a very versatile instrument and you will have fun writing for it. In terms of leaps and dynamics, there are no other solo instrument that it can match its versatility.

Further to our studies I am going to mention to you some about clarinet and some of the possibilities that you can employ in your piece. But for now, we need to work on our themes first.

About the analysis; Since you will now write for a solo clarinet lets look what others did with it. The only thing that comes to my mind right now is Sequenzas of Berio, which could be too heavy for you right now. If you can, find and listen the Sequenza for Clarinet by Berio. That, of course, is very virtuosic. I am not expecting such thing from you. It should only give you an idea of what could be done with clarinet.
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