Brass Quintet

Hey everyone,
This is one of my pieces that i wrote a while ago, before taking AP music theory, which has improved my compositions, so if it remains theoretically unclear that may be why. As always any advice, suggestions, complaints, compliments, etc would be nice.

Max

Hey, I play horn so i looked at this.
I like the faster parts much more than the adagio.
The horn has lots of high notes in that section, while a b flat isnt INCREDIBLY high, playing it often would be difficult.
However, i do like the effect when you have one trumpet come in 1/4 of a beat after the other - it sounds like one instrument!
There sure is a lot of dissonance; is that intended?
Check that, and the section will be much nicer ^
Thanks for posting
Sam

Sorry, i hadn't notice that all of those were in concert pitch. Me= stupid. Well, yes, that horn part is WAYYYYYYYY to high, not only is it difficult techinically to play that high, the sound disappears!

As for the horn range I didn't see it get higher than a concert c#5 which shouldn't be that big of a deal, but the first trumpet part is really really high. Normally people say a concert Bb above the staff is the highest practical playing note for trumpet but you go above and around it a lot especially in the slow section. I would probably find a way to lower some of that section. Also you seem to have every instrument playing all the time. I don't know if that's intentionally (I guess it would have to be), but you could definately get some different sounds if you didn't use each instrument all the time. Also the players may enjoy a few seconds of rest especially that first trumpet part.

Thanks for the advice on brass instruments. I have only played trombone (a while ago and not for long) So i aprriciate the advice and will see what kind of "fixes" i like, maybe even consulting someone in person who plays (or knows more about) the intruments.

Thanks,
Max