You said that to not give the next part away too soon you'd get rid of the high A on the flute. So I got rid of but couldn't think of anything to replace it with. I tried going down to D for a quarter then back up to E for a quarter (following Violins 1) but it didn't sound as good.
I realise I might get another relying-on-GPO-playback bitchslap here, but I felt that this was a time when I could trust the way it sounded.
Will play around with more flute ideas tomorrow. I do want to keep it in for the sake of "completeness" or whatever.
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by the way, I see two bassoons and a staff for contrabassoon, but only one flute, one oboe, and one clarinet... any reason for this?
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There is no unison doubling in similar instruments. The reason the bassoons are sharing a staff was to save on playback slots in GPO (working with 512MB RAM here) but I think I might change this to save the hassle of inputting different voices in Sibelius, a few more instruments shouldn't hurt.
The reason for the contrabassoon staff is that a contrabassoon plays right at the start of the piece. I discovered that if a contrabassoon plays an F then an A it sounds like a foghorn, and that was the inspiration for the whole piece.
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I'd suggest that your woodwind chord should be fuller, and involve notes a bit higher than you have here.
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Thanks, I'll have a play around with this tomorrow. I guess I should have considered that as far as loudness goes, this section is probably going to be the peak of the piece.
I think I was reluctant to put them at first because before I had a crescendo that part was like getting hit in the face with a brick made of woodwinds.
