Concertino for Clarinet and String Orchestra

Hello,

This is my concertino for clarinet and string orchestra. The drafts were written during August, and the orchestration and other things were written in September and October.

This concerto is about 9 minutes long; in style it is mixed, maybe I would call it eclectic, but it was mainly influenced by Hungarian music, baroque and some snippets of minimalism.

Note: I'm not a professional composer, just composing for hobby. But I'm very curious what other people say about my work.

Thanks in advance,

NZs

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I thought that this was a nice playful little piece. It sounds fit for the show "Thomas and Friends"..which is good..considering I still watch the show lol. But, I think it just was too long drawn out at times to be quite honest. I found the initial theme to be interesting..but the piece seemed to get less creative and more drawn out as it went on. But anyway..overall I enjoyed..you have an awesome composition style NZs. Goodluck..and please upload more!

Thanks. I'll work on it.

Lots of repetitive parts, particularly in the strings. You can come up with something better than measure after measure after measure of repeated eighth notes... that's obvious. Do it!

Also lots of non-standard notation and notational errors/oddities in the score. There's no excuse for having a Concert score instead of a transposed score.

First movement:

m.71-72 is very difficult, with the transition from beat 3 to beat 4 of m.71 being impossible without a special extra key (the concert Cb4 uses the left hand little finger and the concert Cb5 using the right hand little finger, with no way to trill to Db5, since the trilled note would require the right hand little finger).

m.77-80 is fantasy. I won't call it impossible, but it's so difficult it might as well be.

Second movement:

m.72 the concert D and G share the same fingering (they are on the same overtone series), and will be too difficult at the given dynamic.

Lots of repetitive parts, particularly in the strings. You can come up with something better than measure after measure after measure of repeated eighth notes... that's obvious. Do it!

Redone in the first movement. I kept them in the third, becouse I like them...

Also lots of non-standard notation and notational errors/oddities in the score. There's no excuse for having a Concert score instead of a transposed score.

As it was just a beta release, I didn't used a transposed score, but I use it now. I've also fixed some errors as well.

First movement:

m.71-72 is very difficult [...]

I removed the little notes.

m.77-80 is fantasy.[...]

I was very sad to do that, but I transposed that measures an octave lower.

Second movement:

m.72 [...]

I inserted a breath mark, so the player will have enough time to solve that problem.

Anyway, thank you for the review!

cl3.mid

cl3.pdf

cl3.sib