October 24, 200817 yr Hello all! This is my first post to the chamber music forum. This is a piece I wrote summer 2007 while at Interlochen. Originally it was for 2 celli and 2 flutes. I ended up going a bit too high on one cello, so I rescored it, adding in a violin, which enabled me to alter some colors. It's in the sonata form I favor, which repeats the exposition but not the development. The first theme is a mournful, folk type melody in b. After some transitional material, the second theme appears in a sunny D Major. The development begins by playing the first theme in d, then expanding it from 4/4 to 5/4, and going into the octatonic scale for further development. The recording was live in a classroom. My classmates were practically sightreading, which just goes to show how talented they were. :) MP3: http://csandlewis.com/audio_files/01 Sparrowhawk.mp3 Sparrowhawk Score.pdf
October 30, 200817 yr It's definitely something different, which is always nice. I really liked the first melody and how you transferred it to the violin at the end of the first section. That really made a nice color. There are some parts that seem a little strange as far as tone towards the end (especially between the two cellos), but I think it might just be the recording. Overall, I think it's a good piece, and the instrumentation works very nicely.
November 4, 200817 yr It's a nice exploration of the folk-songish theme, and the writing for your particular ensemble is really good - I definitely like the texture of the violin in there. Perhaps I thought it got a little lost 3/4 of the way through, but overall I liked it very much. :D
November 11, 200817 yr This kind of style really appeals to me. b31 is like heaven! also, the sffz chords really worked. The chord after the buildup at b111 was also really nice; the harmonic detours were interesting, and this worked kept my attention all the way through. It helps having real instruments play it as well. Really nice!
