Sonatine for Oboe and Piano

Okay... so I wrote this in the past few months at school. There are a lot of things wrong with it, in fact so many that I can't be bothered to list them all, and besides that I'd like to hear other people's criticism on it! Having said that I'm pretty happy with how it turned out, I was working to a time-frame so couldn't get everything perfect, but hopefully I'll rewrite it over the summer. And just to explain the weird structure - originally this was the second movement of a two-movement piece; the material of the first I'll use when I rewrite it all. The second section of this shorter movement I had planned to return and 'recapitulate' at the end of this movement rather than actually just copying and pasting the lame recapitulation I've got here (the Dutilleux Oboe Sonata mov. I and II do this :p). So yeah. Criticism and advice (including how playable the oboe part is from any oboists? - it doesn't neccesarily have to stay at the speeds I've put it at) would be very welcome, please, thank you.

(I hope I can get these to work. I used Sibelius 4 to write it in but I've only got Sibelius 3 at home so there are some formatting issues. But I tidied it up a bit.)

Edit: I discovered why there was a printer listed in the drop-down box that I'd never even heard of before. Lol. Now in .pdf format.

Link to audio: Sonatine for Oboe and Piano - Putfile.com.

Can you link a .pdf of the score?

Originally Posted by Terve

if somebody could tell me how to upload scores as pdf files that would be awesome

:p

LOL, I guess skimming can be a bad idea when reading ;-)

Indeed, lol. I was looking for some sort of help topic on uploading files etc. or something, but couldn't seem to find one. Might be a good idea? Maybe once I find out how I'll do it, haha.

Anyway, I repeat, if anyone knows how to convert a .sib file to a .pdf file, I'm all ears...

There is a thread in the tech forums, I believe. I use CutePDF.

Now in .pdf format.

I would love to listen to your piece, but for some reason I can't open the mp3 - would you double check the link? I hope it's not my pc... Ciao

The .mp3 works for me! I really like the piece, lots of energy and very exciting. I'd love to hear this played live. Thanks for sharing! I'll post a better review when I have more time...

Originally Posted by Lorenzo Salvagni

I would love to listen to your piece, but for some reason I can't open the mp3 - would you double check the link? I hope it's not my pc... Ciao

I checked the link, it seems to work for me, but I uploaded it onto box.net as a midi file; it should play in WMP or iTunes or whatever. The instruments are much worse in this one though, lol.

box.net: Sonatine for Oboe and Piano (for bbcsib3).mid - File Shared from Box.net - Free Online File Storage

Thanks very much, pianistboy! I would like to get it recorded, there was a local oboist who said he'd be happy to do it but I can't really play the piano part myself (without a lot of practise) so I'll have to get someone else to do it which is annoying. But hopefully at some point.