Oboe Sonata

Hey all, this is an oboe sonata I wrote a few months ago, and I was just wondering if someone could look at it. I modeled it after the solo sonata of the baroque, and it's just the first two movements. The harmony probably isn't as good as it should be...

If anyone could review it or help me with polishing it up, that would be great.

* Just a quick update- I posted a different oboe sonata then I had intended to... (hint, never name all of your oboe sonata's "oboe sonata," and then put them all in different folders...), so when I said movements... it really is sections... I'll post the other one in a while... the one that actually has movements.

I think by movements you may mean phrases, though I'm not sure.

Thank you for sharing! Yes, this is a beginning, and a promising one at that. I think, however, that there are a few things you're going to want to tweak before moving on with the rest of it.

First off, in the baroque style, you always want to be on the lookout for unwanted dissonances. Take the first beat of measure 5, for example. The Ab in your oboe clashes as a minor 9th (aka a minor second) with the G in the piano part. I understand that the Ab is a non-harmonic tone, but in baroque music you don't want the nonharmonic tone and the actual harmonic tone to sound at the same time. (Or, if the previous two sentences were gibberish to you, just play the measure without the G and you'll hear what I mean.)

Also, you set up this really nice texture in the piano part at the beginning, but then you drop it for block chords starting at bar 5, chords in a configuration that you wouldn't see in Baroque music.

At bar 3, it would be more traditional to see B-naturals instead of B-flats so that you get a nice V-I progression. (Very Baroque.)

I think in general you just need to keep plugging on through, and try to stick to the harmonic style with which you started in the piano. Those first few bars are good writing, so you want to keep that up!