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Yes, it is a very worthwhile investment. It has helped me a ton. In regards of the price, I bought my copy from half.com. I got the second edition for around $30.00 including shipping. The second edition is no different from the third edition. It also did not come with anything. Only the book, but my composition teacher burned me a copy of the disk.

@Nirvana: i am a spook, having returned to play tuba, write music, and eat cheetos. BOO! @blm When are you gonna post the PDFs?

Awesome. I can't wait to see it. It will be nice to see some atonal duets for tuba. I am looking for some new tuba music. :thumbsup:

I would recommend learning all the clefs. The Baritone is a middle ground instrument. Many times a piece will have only a t.c. baritone part, or just a b.c. bari part. But then sometimes you will run into the C clef. As for tuba parts, they are not transposed. It is the Tuba it self that may be in another key(BBb, CC, F, Eb, Bb).

When it comes to writing for strings, I was told to always make it multiples of two, like Justin said. But your the composer. If you want to write for 123 strings, then do it.:P

Someone I sent this to also commented on the "sonata" thing. They said it was more of a Sonatina. I am looking into rewriting it for four hands. I think I may take a repeat or two out as well. Again thanks for the comments :thumbsup:.

hey, thanks for the comments edgar. I very much appreciate them. Do you think that slowing it down would help? I thought that in some sections it seemed a little to quick. Maybe swaping out the 32nd triplets would help? I will look into rewriting it like you said as well. It never occured to me to do so. Anymore comment / critiques are welcome. :thumbsup:

This was written by me. I am not even sure if I would call this a piano sonata. But I am happy with it. This was my first piece written in the program Sibelius. It is just over 10 minutes in length. Also, it should be noted that I am not a pianist. I am a Tubist. So I am not quite sure it would be possible to play on the piano. So if someone who IS a pianist could say "yea or nay" if it is possible. So I hope you like. Thanks for listening. Any comment / critiques will be welcome. Sonata_e_flat_major_Op_1.mid Sonata_e_flat_major_Op_1.pdf

I mentioned a while back about Google Book Search Just put in yourquery and click "full preview." from there you can download books till your hearts content. :thumbsup:

I have quite a bit of sheet music on Google Book Search Just do a search, then choose "full view" ta-da...free sheet music.

Funniest guy i have ever seen. I saw him on our local Public TV channel, and I have never laughed so much.

When it comes to knowing the language, it is not quite a dead language. In all the world probably 1000 people speak it, BUT I do know a few who do speak it. They have also said they would help me with that part. I myself do know a few phrases. I myself have heard the legend told in the language, and it very much added to the legend. But anyways, it seems to me that it just something I will really have to think about and work out the details first.

Ok, so here's the low down. I have never written a opera. I have decided to write one. I have a few good ideas, but the one I keep coming to is a local area legend. The advice I need is what language do you think it should it be in. This legend is a very old Native American legend, and it could be kinda cool in their language...BUT, if I were to do it in that language, it would probably never be performed, as the language is all but dead. If I were to do it in english, I think it would sound kind of funny. Thought it might be kinda funny to do a native american legend in german.

I love to write music (as do most of you guys, I'm sure...thats why we are here right?). But, the one thing I know I do not do enough of, is analysis. I think that this is a must do for any composer, but I just do not seem to do this enough. I was wondering what everyone thinks are some great works that SHOULD be analyzed.

LOL:P