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Thanks for the quick reply, Austenite. This answered my question.

I'm working on orchestral violin parts, and I would like to know if these bars are feasible at 100 bpm for professional orchestra. If not, please tell me a way to score the problematic chords (preferably the ones that lack tones that could be assigned to open strings). The slurs are missing on these excerpts, it should be one slur per 4 semiquavers.

Luc Brewaeys is a Belgian composer who orchestrated Debussy's Préludes in a brilliant fashion. A recording can be found at Amazon: Debussy/Brewaeys: Preludes. More of interest is the fact that the composer himself made the score freely available on his homepage, via Scorchplayer: Brewaeys' scores. He even enabled you to download the original .sib-file. Needless to say, this is a great way to learn from a master orchestrator very much in his prime. A selection of his original, modern classical works can also be viewed at his homepage.

It's quite odd that the segments of Soundings people dislike the most are the segments wherein Williams behaves in the most truly modern classical way, unstructured thought it may seem. The riveting last three minutes - half his film style, half "true" contemporary classical - form the crowdpleaser.

I even made it to the finals. :toothygrin: Luck was on my side, I guess. :P Which piece did you write for the contest?

Thanks, any comment's a good comment to me. :) And my only intention of posting my compositions is that others can enjoy them (if possible :whistling: :D)

I liked the theme from 1'12" so much, I arranged it for piano four-hands. :D Jungle Jam.pdf Jungle Jam.mid

Score Summary: Entry in the JongNBE "On the way to the New Year's Concert" composition competition 2007 for people under 18. This year's theme was "Night", and as such I chose the subject "Aurora Australis", better known as the Southern Lights. The fast outer sections represent the wonder of the continuous collision of particles in the Earth's athmosphere, the slow mid-section represents the wonderment it creates. It's scored for flute, oboe, Bb clarinet, alto saxophone, bassoon, trumpet in Bb, horn in F, tenor trombone, percussion (susp. cymbal + xylophone), four-hand piano, double bass & tape. The overall style can be summarized as impressionistic minalism gone horribly hyperactive. I regarded the whole ensemble as an "aura apparatus" in the fast outer sections. It came to win a place in the final round. Techniques used: Polyrhythms Ostinati Polychords Combined use of samples and live ensemble "Prepared" piano Instrumentists have to hum and speak Harmonic parallelisms Duration of conception: About three whole days to think about structure, improvising on the piano and making the whole score on Sibelius. Lay-out improvements and dynamic markings took about a week Structure: intro - A - B - A' - outtro Obstacles when composing: confining my ideas and keeping the structure :D Aurora Australis.pdf

Another one of my little nothings, this one doesn't even have a real title...It's just something to listen to and forget, so it doesn't matter. :)

Can you post a score?

MIDI attached.

I was messing around with Sibelius 4, and after about half an hour I got this jazzy impromptu. Tell me what you think. It's in my usual, busy style. :toothygrin:

Ah, thought you wanted to know the acronym. It's the name for the time in all the countries falling in region 0 on this map (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3d/Timezones_optimized.png). The time in the countries on the left of that region is equal to the GMT minus it's region number, the time in the countries on the right that of the GMT plus it's region number.

Greenwich Mean Time perhaps?

First of all, I also think you should drop the clarinet or make it more "duetty" (i.e. more question-answer situations). Now it seems like one instrument no matter which I listen to. I like it so far, but it's indeed too short. Certainly add a minor part, I'd like that. I can't give you a possible roadmap, I've got no knowledge of sonataforms. Can in be so bold as to suggest to add some impressionistic flavors in it, just a hint? Or at least enter a variation in the sonata, a toccata or something... Yep, I suck at commenting.:)