Lydian Rhapsody

Awesome! Is this going to be performed and/or recorded??

Well......maybe. I will be having an orchestra piece performed next year, but probably not this one. I'm working on a more ambitious project, programmatic and with more extended techniques and experimentation (that's all I can say about it now )

Now, I will be sending this to some competitions, so with some luck it'll get performed . Barring that, I'm going to try and produce an EWQL rendition with Cubase, so there should be a sweet recording of this at some point

I dunno, as soon as the zelda started my eyes reflexively rolled. I mean, I hope you"re going for some audience chuckles here, because I damn sure did (chuckled). There's a fine line between quotation and fantasia on a theme, and you're leaning toward the latter. You're clearly talented orchestrationally, just think up your own material JASON DERULO

Beyond that, your percussion notation is odd. If you're gonna do the one line staff thing, put all the notes either on the line or just above/below (still touching). You have random ass notes floating off the staff like balloons for no reason, plus I don't know why you notated some bass drum hits stem up and others stem down. Maybe I missed something. There's noting wrong with a full staff for percussion and giving each instrument its own line/space. A few things could be more specific, such as notating finger roll or shake roll in your tambourine part, but percussionists are frankly used to encountering nonspecific parts and making them work. One thing I would add as a courtesy is "to [x instrument]" when you want the percussionist to switch instruments.

Well, if it is a fantasia on a theme, it's more on Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra than the Lost Woods theme.

I really only quoted Zelda in that little section, and a few other times later on. Most of the piece is my own, believe me...I don't see why you got hung up on that tiny section which was clearly just a little throwback to my first encounter with Lydian mode, and one that I did hope made you chuckle with gleeful nostalgia.

In any case, good composers borrow, great composers steal . Stravinsky did a hell of a lot (and he said that) as well as most succesful composers, especially writing variations on themes. That's how we learn, we take what's good and make it our own.

Also, I know the percussion notation is odd, it's that way for playback reasons in Finale. I'm cleaning up the score further and having the lines on the staff. I wanted a playback version first to have an audio recording, so now I'm working on the correct version of the score.