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Really? I swear I put it under quintet. Thanks for the reply

Another piece I did for my HSC Music (high school exam), this time for a string quintet. The whole piece basically revolves around the first theme heard on the violin. Quintessence

Don't worry, I think know what you're talking about (you're talking about the "fight" at the end right?). I just had to finish it up so I could hand it in on time. I'd probably cut the 2nd violins playing the harmonic and have them double the violas and have both div at octaves, then the cellos and basses div. at octaves too in that section. The "fall off" was due to time contraints: 2 contrasting pieces, 6 minutes max (total, so ~3 minutes per piece). I would have kept building the "fight" but that would have taken me over time. Might "finish" it after the rest of my exams.

Don't worry about the rating, it was a good piece. Might have to do with the MIDI recording making it sound, well, really bad. I'd like to hear this live, especially (like you said) the candenzas. Just one thing though: maybe remove the pizz in the bass at bars 49-50 and just have that whole line as a cadenza (maybe even without the strings underneath). And why did the piece end on a major? =(

This is a piece I wrote for my HSC Music Extension (so, final exam for high school). With inspirations from film and program music, the entire piece is built on a single motif heard in the opening.From the program notes: This piece envisages the Endeavour’s voyage in two sections. The first section is the British perspective; the voyage of discovery, sailing through unknown oceans and finding the sweeping hills of the Australian landscape. The second section takes the Aborigines’ perspective as these mysterious boats come in slowly from the horizon, then the eruption of warfare upon their arrival.I guess you could adapt that to resemble any colonial conquest, but being Austalian I thought I'd put the Endeavour. Endeavour