The Winds

This is a piece I have been working on for quite a while, mostly due to it being my first time writing for this type of ensemble (symphonic wind ensamble) The piece is in a A-B-A form with developments in each section. I believe it shows a improvement in my writing. Hope you enjoy this piece as a whole. And please comment either good of bad.

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Wind Symphony.MUS

Finale 2007 - [Wind Symphony].pdf

hey how about giving us a way to hear your music, kinda like if music was made to be heard.

i give you one word

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I like the piece, but there are a few notational problems.

One big one is the fermatas in the piece. You placed fermatas in one part and not the other which is a train wreck waiting to happen. Fermatas need to be in every part one the same beat, including parts that have rest.

You must remember that your performers will only see their part, they will not know who is holding a fermata and will they will get out of sync of each other.

please look at the "notation" part of the orchestration masterclass.. there's a common error you are repeating quite frequently in this score.

I like the piece. I hope you make it longer, either with more movements or by extending the existing piece.

There is now a recording attached to the OP.

yeah... the bassons are above the clarinets.... just fix those little details and try to develop a little more.

yeah... the bassons are above the clarinets.... just fix those little details and try to develop a little more.

no, in some band scores, the double reeds are grouped together. that's not the error. the error I mean is related to the use of slurs.

thanks everyone well I have always noticed that i defiantly need work on cleaning up scores I think about the music to much sometimes and just forget to put final touches on it.

no, in some band scores, the double reeds are grouped together. that's not the error.

Oh really ? I didn't know, I haven't seen very much Band scores.

when conducting Orchestra scores your eyes search for some kind of reference points, (the Horn and Violins I) if you see a Clarinet above the Horns you automatically forget the Bassons and if you hear a Bassoon playing that could make you commit an error while conduting, a diversion....

but now you say that about the double reeds, I'll be more careful.

Oh really ? I didn't know, I haven't seen very much Band scores.

when conducting Orchestra scores your eyes search for some kind of reference points, (the Horn and Violins I) if you see a Clarinet above the Horns you automatically forget the Bassons and if you hear a Bassoon playing that could make you commit an error while conduting, a diversion....

but now you say that about the double reeds, I'll be more careful.

remember, this is a particularity of band scores.

and not ALL band scores follow this convention.

does anyone want to say anything more about the music?

does anyone want to say anything more about the music?

I will give you my 2 cents about the music.

For a band piece it works fine. To me it is nothing to write home about, but it fits that genre and I am sure some people would love it.

Where I take exception is to your membership here.

You come here with new music and ask people to comment on it and yet you have never said a word to anyone else here about their music. You have done that with every piece you have posted here for 3 years now.

Taking and not giving, defines who you are as an individual.

Is that how you wish to be thought of?

Ron

Fegane, please prove Ron wrong?

I'd like to think that I didn't make an error by making a rendering of your piece and hosting it on my own website for you. I would like to think that the time I spent fixing up your score for playback using Garritan "Concert and marching band" and then uploading the audio to my website, was not wasted on someone who isn't appreciating it.

I've just looked over your posting history, and I found only one single post where you commented on something posted by someone else.

Effectively, that doesn't make you a particularly productive member of this community. I think it is time you started pulling your weight around here and commenting constructively on OTHER peoples' posts.

well i certainly agree with that and i will try to do more

How come you have no alto sax. The alto sax is a big part of concert bands, or atleast I think it is.

well it may be for you, but in my opinion i just don't like sax's at all (sorry if i offended you) mainly because they just aren't the sound i like for the music i am making so the less sax's I have the better.

Well, then you should probably write for orchestra, becuase I have never seen a band without an alto sax, maybe without a tener and bari, but all symphonic bands have alto sax, so maybe you should just include a part for alto, but not for tener and bari. And, do you even not like the soprano???

Nope not really

Like I said to Simen, where is the theme of motif? I don't hear any distinct melody, just rythmically formatioins of chords, even though they sometimes progress chromatically, they don't lead to any interesting climax. This is important, if you want to keep the listeners attention.

Well, I have listened after all,

Fredrik

It is mostly based on one motif that i give in the beginning of the peice and if you look it shows up almost everywhere except maybe the b section

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well it may be for you, but in my opinion i just don't like sax's at all (sorry if i offended you) mainly because they just aren't the sound i like for the music i am making so the less sax's I have the better.

Firstly, here are some things I like to say about your piece.

There are alot of places in the music, where almost every instrument is

playing a different part. Not a good technique. When this occurs, the result

is musical chaos, it may sound all nice and pretty on finale, but too me, and

I'm sure too others this just doesn't work. The piece didn't sound bad, just

repetitive, and I got bored rather quick, but I'm sure others will love it. Also,

what i quoted above just

sounds completely ridiculous. Firstly, you can't intend to sell wind ensemble

music completely eliminating one of the prime instruments needed. Honestly,

what kind of conductor would want to play something like that. You're only

depriving yourself. Also, (not calling you a "bad composer.) but I think that

obviously, there are always some instruments that composers tend to favor

the sound of more. (I don't really have one, but I do have things i prefer on

each instruments. 'low register on clarinets.' etc.) but anyway, I think that a

good composer finds away to appreciate and feature all instruments in their

music whether they like it or not. To just sit there and say , "I hate saxes,

I'm not gonna write for them." Just sounds plain stupid. But hey, to each

their own.

Actually, I find fegane's a very understandable approach. There are composers who don't like writing fugues - so they don't write fugues. There are composers who don't like writing musique concr

Actually, I find fegane's a very understandable approach. There are composers who don't like writing fugues - so they don't write fugues. There are composers who don't like writing musique concr

Well this piece is over and done with practically I have moved on and learned from my mistakes but im just MichaelAlex how do you find it too repeatitive most of the people I have spoken to about this work have said I need to repeat some places more. Also where do I have all the sections playing different parts. Just wondering