Viral Declamation

Wow, I can't say anything technical, but I had to reply since this is the first time I actually return to a piece a few times. This is absolutely lovely, though I'm not really used to this kind of music. It's really awesome, without a doubt one of the best pieces ever posted on this site IMO. Congrats!

Very good and energetic , I loved the use of half-steps, and the pizzicato was good.

Steven and blm22: thanks for the appriciation guys! im glad you enjoyed this one!

This is VERY cool. Thanks for posting!

Very nice, a lot of energy, I agree its a bit long. (I like short pieces of music) but your theme is great, my only problem as a listener is I couldn't really distinguish a melody or something familiar to grasp on to. The end was a little abrupt.

Other than that, in your score, just in the 3 page I looked at there were 17 notes that string basses can't play, and you can take that from a string bass player.

Overall, I really liked it, you got a lot of sound and energy out of four instruments.

pianistboy and Skahead: Thank you very much for you comments, and thanks Ska for pointing out the bass notes and the tip for transposing it, I have done so.

A quick update on this piece: thanks to the reviews of Composerorganist and Flint (among others) I am painfully going back and doubling all of the note values to make the score look beautiful ( if possible). I have also been orchestrating this piece and hopefully will be done in a few days. The competition I am entering this in requires an orchestration, and I was going to do this for string orchestra, but at the last second changed my mind. Luckily the content is mostly there and tweeking orchestration isn't as big of a deal as I thought. I'll post the orchestral version before the 31st, so check it out if at all you are interested.

Once again, I thank everyone who has commented on this for your input. All advice (and critisms) are/were appriciated

Vince

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UPDATED SCORE is in the original post

Sorry people...I feel like a douche bag for bumping this, but I have finally reworked the score. If at all possible there are folks out there with notation knowledge advice would be appriciated. I have already submitted the final version, but any comments (especially concerning the score) would be helpful for me to grow as a composer. Again, thank you for all of the reviewers that posted comments on my piece, all the advice and critism was/is appriciated.

Vince

thatguy, hey!

(nice avatar, btw)

Well, this piece was very dynamic and exciting. So go and get it performed.

(at a first glance, the score seems ok)

Hey Manos! Glad to see that you found your way back to YC. I hopefully will get a performance on this one someday. Thanks for teh comment mate!

Vince

VERY Shostakovichy.