Mr Duck,
I'm beggining to think I'm the only one around here that doesn't neccesarily appreciate stylistic shifts. But it seems to be a working theme around here. See my recent post to Yqq...
http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/index....st&p= 32597
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You've got some dramatic material here. I liked your parallel dissonances a lot. The only criticism that I can really think of is that the shifts from material to material seem strained or sharp at some points. Your orchestration, too, is really good.
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I actually dissagree with Christopher in that I think your transitions are fine, even rather smoothly executed. (I can see that he and I are not in agreement on a number of issues, and I'm looking forward to a number of healthy and productive disscussions with him over time). Anyways, I'm more concerned with your destinations. To start with a theme that wouldn't raise an eyebrow 250 years ago, and take it into pan-chromatic powerchord land and back to, well... not where it started, but rather 5 more stylistic vignettes, is to deny the listener a reference point, a home base, a world in which to reside in order to understand. It's all rather schizophrenic and (in my mine at least) belies a composers inability to stick to a style and truly develop and explore within it.
BTW, I mention these thing to both you and Yqq, because you ARE able to write in different styles, and I feel a certain empathy for what I feel was a similar issue in my formative years as a composer.
..FWIW