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The problem is that some of my other music friends say that the ensemble won't work because of the weird instrumentation. Also, I'm not really understanding, sorry. When you guys say that I should study the music and then write the music, isn't that just recreating the music for the ensemble? Should I be changing parts so that the match the instrumentation better? I didn't want to do that because I wanted to stick to the original as much as possible.

Actually... I probably should have described the parts first. Sorry. I plan on arranging Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet Overture for my ensemble. The strings will keep all of their parts, except for the cello and double bass, since we don't have those instruments. Then, this is where thing are a bit strange. I thought it would be cool to give the trumpet parts and solo clarinet parts and bassoon parts to the two clarinets, with the write transposition and changing some of the ranges of course. Also, the piano would take the cello, some parts of the double bass, and the rest of the instruments that aren't covered... There is a limit to how many notes my friend on the piano can play at once, so I might have to exclude some parts. What do you guys think of this?

I am planning on arranging a piece for my ensemble. Unfortunately, we have two violins, a viola, two clarinets, and a piano. Does this instrumentation not work? That's what I was told after consulting some of my other music friends.