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Found this thread, looks like there is a lot of confusion on this topic 😅 https://vi-control.net/community/threads/is-the-piccolo-above-the-flute-or-below-in-score-layout.83869/

Hmm that's odd. On my screen it is pretty clear, but it did take a second to load. Maybe give it a minute to load all the way? The piccolo sounds an octave higher than written, so it is actually an octave above the 2nd flute.

@PeterthePapercomPoser thank you so much for listening, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Good observation! I suppose I didn't necessarily intend to always stay in the 3-2 grouping, it more or less just came out that way. I will say there is some ambiguity in some parts of the flowy melodic line you point out. The part I indicated below could be more naturally interpreted as a 2-3 grouping, which would go against the 3-2 ostinato underneath it in the horns. But I didn't think it made sense to change the horn part just for this, and I also kept the notation this way for consistency across the parts. Thanks, I'm glad you like it. I was really just trying to come up with an ostinato that conveyed a lydian feeling, and just wrote a melody to flow above it. But you're right, I would imagine this section is more difficult to play than one would expect 😅 Awesome! I'm glad you like it. Hmm are you referring to the resolution on the video or on the pdf itself? I would expect the video to be difficult to read at a detailed level, but I would think the score pdf should be pretty clear, depending on the resolution of your monitor at least. Thanks again for listening! I always appreciate your feedback!

Many thanks Peter for your kind words. I've composed this piece with heart and I've tried to make it sounds the best as possible.

Hello @PeterthePapercomPoser. Thanks for listening and the first part is meant to be humorous.

Hello @Pianistikboy and welcome to the forum! This is a very beautiful piece and it sounds as if it's performed live! In the beginning I had doubts whether both the choir and the orchestra were being performed live - I thought maybe you just layered in some instrumental samples to the choir performance, doubling the voices with a string orchestra. But I can hear now that you've added quite a few idiosyncratic solo parts and full orchestra scoring - I love the trumpet solo! Great job and thanks for sharing!

Wonderful piece! I like the variation in structure and the modulations.At the same time, the piece is very cohesive. Congratulations.

Hello @arpeggia! Wonderful piece! I love how the difficulty is tempered well by a knowledge of what is possible to play easily. You use 6th's in the melodic line but they enclose the note that follows in a way that makes those passages easy to play. And your score has a conspicuous absence of 16th notes which at this tempo might be a bit on the difficult side. 8th notes and 8th note triplets are enough for you to create a pretty showy and virtuosic variation of the main melody! And I love the contrasting section in the parallel major mode and the relative major mode! I almost forgot to say something about the great use of the Neapolitan chord in D minor which gives the piece a very dreary atmosphere. Great job and thanks for sharing!