"The River Of Life" Op.106

Another Theme Based Brass Quintet By Me, I Hope You Like It.

Another Theme Based Brass Quintet By Me, I Hope You Like It.

This is a great piece for killing horn players as every single one would choke to death (they need to breath.... it's not like they are some computer playing back your composition). The ending sounded a bit to abrupt. In fact way to aburpt. Like you were going to continue it and it just ends (The third movement of Beethoven's 8th Piano Sonata does that too but that works pretty well; this sounds too forced). And in the begining why are you tying a note to a rest. I'm definatly no expert on articulation, but that's one I haven't seen before.

thnx for your ideas, why would the horn player not be able to breath?, and the notes tied to the rest mean to lift later then you would regularly, the ending is a little abrupt but that is what I was going for.

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I've had to write for a trombonist and I clearly remember in some of my class mates pieces the teacher corrected them because the trombonist would've choked. They weren't tied.

Ahh..I thought that this was a pretty interesting piece blm. However there are a few spots that I'd like to touch on.

The first thing that really stood out to me was the piece's organization..or form. I really think you could have done tons better in this area..because it seemd to me like the piece just went on and on from theme to theme without any really good transition between them. I can see looking at the score that the piece is some sorta ABA form where the initial theme returns at the end after the little allegrto section in the middle. I just think that the transitions between these sections and other parts in the piece and could have been improved so that it flowed more easily.

In measures 10-18 you repeat the main theme again except a little varied with much given to the lower voices. I think that the idea that you have here is pretty nice..but why not vary it a bit more? It sounded to me like just a bunch of moving quarter notes..which gets boring after a while. Why not vary the duration of some pitches as to add contrast? I also thought that some of your chord progressions throughout and dissonances were quite odd in that they didn't sound like they resolved correctly or they went places that were unexpected. I think this happens a couple of times in the above measures mentioned above (10-18) and throughout the piece. I thought also that your orchestration could be improved a bit as well.

(Now I do remember you mentioning that you compose modern music..so if it sounds good to you..don't bother about what I said lol.)

Overall though, I thought that you did a good job, and especially for the amount of time it took to compose. Good luck with future composing.

I listened to this like 4 times, I liked it alot. There were some notes in the beggining part that annoyed me, They just diddnt sound right. I think Romanticist was very right in everything he said. Please Compose more :D