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Hi everyone. I wanted to compose a piece that I could play...so I composed a piece for oboe and cello. I intend the piece to have orchestra accompaniment is I decide to finish it. I don't know if there is really good stuff in here or not so I need your help/advice. The midi is attached.

It's definitely good stuff! Worth carrying on with. I think the piano accompaniment is fine on it's own- it doesn't really need an orchestral accompaniment, but that's just my opinion.

The harmonies are nice and the parts go together well, maybe it needs a little more variety of rhythm and texture though? You could add a contrasting section with (for example) a faster tempo, staccato notes and a major key, then come back into the original theme again?

Also, I think it would make a nice introduction to a faster piece (like the fast bit at the end)- You could call it 'Adagio and Allegro for oboe and cello' for example.

It sounds very nice though! I like it lots! Keep going!

Haha...that was the original title. I don't really know how I am going to continue on to an Allegro. I am really running out of inspiration with this piece. I just started it today so perhaps I will let it sit awhile then come back to it. I have attempted to get it into the major key but nothing I am trying seems to flow. That is what is frustrating about this piece... Oh well. Thank you so much for your help. =]

nice.

I like this a lot. There is some good stuff in there. I'm not the right person to critique something but I may as well try. I like the blend between oboe and cello throught this. Maybe the piano part is a little annoying in the sense that it's really really boring to play. Sure it sounds good, and it does, but a person would rather beat themselves over the head a sledgehammer than play these chords over and over and over and over and over and over again. Maybe there should be a place where the pianist gets to show off that he can play more than chords, like arpeggios or something? and the end part sounds good, but is it suddeny supposed to get faster like that, maybe a rallentando (awesome word eh?) leading into it or just smooth it up a bit.

So, great job, I look forward to seeing this finished. Maybe with different movements?

>Mitchell<

Whoops, the nice at the beginning wasn't sarcasm.

Well it is going to be for orchestra if I do finish it. I was thinking more of a stringendo leading up to the faster part. I don't know how I would feel about a rallantando. This piece would be performed...quite soon actually...if completed. It's premiere could end up in Russia. I was asked to write a piece for cello and oboe...but it wasn't anything official. It was one of those, "it would be nice..." ideas.

I wouldn't have seen it as sarcasm. I honestly don't understand any sarcasm. It's a brain block or something. I do not pick up on it.

Haha...that was the original title. I don't really know how I am going to continue on to an Allegro. I am really running out of inspiration with this piece. I just started it today so perhaps I will let it sit awhile then come back to it. I have attempted to get it into the major key but nothing I am trying seems to flow. That is what is frustrating about this piece... Oh well. Thank you so much for your help. =]

Wow, you write fast! It takes me weeks/months to write a piece because I write a few bars then lose interest/inspiration and move on to a different piece! I've got soooo many unfinished pieces!

What I hate is when i've got a piece into a really obscure piece and can't get it back into the original key! That's what happened in my 'Carousel' piece, if you've heard it!

Anyway, I like your piece! Persevere, it will be worth it!

Aha I see, I just meant slow down a bit when I said rallentando (I love that word), nothing technical.

It doens't really need an orchestra, but if you intend on giving them more interesting parts than the piano, go ahead. Just make sure it gets recorded.
And then post it here. Or something..

Wow, that would be really cool if you could get your piece performed! Would it be professionally performed? Why were you asked to write it? Sorry i'm being nosy now!