"Me Dos" for string trio

Hello all,

This is my first post here at the young composers forum.

I am a rising senior in high school and I plan on majoring in music composition.

This is a piece I am working on for the Cleveland Institute of Music's Young Composers Program.

Any Comments are more than welcome.

Please forgive the shortcomings of the computer rendering of the work. The tremoli, especially, are rather bad.

If anyone has any suggestions on how to get a good tremolo sound out of GPO, I'm listening. Thanks much!

Me Dos.pdf

you can listen to the recording here:

Me Dos by mattjoc | iCompositions - Music

Thanks much,

Matt

I like the score but, I have to download quicktime to listen, so I'll post with that in a minute

well, huh, I don't get the beggining harmony when everyone come's in, the melody seems only set in the violin,and it would be better to expand it.,I love the Pizzicato , but some of the melody seems a little random..., Um what was your motif, um besides that good job on the piece. ;)

This piece had an interesting structure and was full of interesting effects and interesting melodies. I think there is one problem with it and that is that the piece gets a little boring because you stay within the same basic tonal framework for the full five minutes. There isnt a whole lot of tension created. I think adding a developmental section in the middle of the piece where you explore your material in different tonal areas. Your three main ideas (that I see), the opening idea, the Tempo II scherzando idea and the third idea in 5/4 are all very interesting and are quite different. But you can explore them more and make the music feel like its really going somewhere in this developmental section because right now the piece, for me, sort of just meanders around these three different ideas. Still, the piece has a lot of potential and your part writing and knowledge of effects as well as your interesting melodies are quite well-done. Just make sure your music leads somewhere and make sure to develop all your material! Good job and keep working!

Thanks much for the comments. I'm in the process of making revisions and I'll get back to you when some progress made.

Matt