"Metus" Overture

Metus means anxiety... which is mostly what this piece is based upon!

New--- mp3 link --- I think the midi is better for now, though

Metus Overture --
This is an overture that hopefully will be performed by my school symphony orchestra. It is in G minor for the texture. After the exposition statement, It modulates to D minor, and I begin to vary the theme using textures/colors of the orchestra. During the soli sections after the exposition statement, there is a crazy amount of modulation, eventually landing on the semi-distant key of E minor. Through more modulation, it ends on an A major chord, setting up a soft and delicate contrasting section. This modulates to A minor, which then modulates to G minor, setting up a recapitulation. The recapitulation starts in Bb major, as previously done... this was pretty difficult to set up. It is a nearly literal recapitulation, and the B theme material is played lower in almost every instrument, giving a very dark texture. The recapitulation ends with a huge D being played by every instrument. The coda will begin soon. The coda is basically an exciting finish to this piece, starting at the end of the recapitulation of the B theme, not the beginning. Please tell me what you think.

I'm pretty sure that the score is done.
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the piece is 11 minutes and 14 seconds long

Scoring:

2 flutes (perhaps)
2 oboes
3 Bb clarinets (mabye 4)
2 bassoon (only one will play it, though)
4 horns
2 trumpet (mabye 3)
2 trombone (mabye 3)
full string orchestra

timpani

UPDATED

Goodness: Beethoven doesnt happen to be your influence does he?
Hahaha, don't answer: WE ALL KNOW THAT!

It sounds fantastic. I absolutely adore it. Make sure you upload a live recording when or if you come to perform it Would love to put it on my MP3 player: YES. It IS that good.

Very nice.

I like it a lot. Nice use of the motif, and I like all the tutti sections. Keep it up, you have a very strong start.

Very nice work! It sounds along the lines of one of the early romantics (Schubert, Beethoven). This could definitely go somewhere (that is to say if you can develop the themes some more).

As an introduction, this is a very impressive and well-crafted start.

The best thing for you now would be to focus on the rest, as I'd be very happy with this if as a final product if I had written it. Well done if you manage to secure a performance as well.

Thank you for your comments.

I am wondering if the orchestration is a little bit too thick and the melody lines are too covered up. However, I know that in real life, these lines would be brought out by the players.

Also, I was wondering if any of you felt that the ending of the introduction was too abrupt and lacking a full ending of a phrase. I intentionally prolonged the ending of that last phrase for it to be resolved in the new tempo to get a feeling of continuity.

Nah, personally I thought the ending was good. You really need to leave such an introduction unresolved for it to be effective...

Ok, I have updated the files and I have kept the off-beat sforzandos near the end of the slow section in order to create tension building up to the faster section. The structure is a little bit different here because I don't immediately switch to the home key statement of the theme.. Instead, I introduce a variation of the theme in the previously set up major key.

seriously second time ive listened to it now, and I really like it!

Link?