Wind Quintet (for... Wind Quintet...)

Yes, my titles are absurdly uninspired. Yes, I completely made up that tempo text and will accept any suggestions. Yes, this is my first time writing for winds (how could you tell?). I started this piece at the beginning of the year for comp class, and after a while it just started dragging, and after I'd banged out as much as I could and could go no further, I abandoned it, before revisiting it about a month ago and writing the last couple pages and cleaning it up some. So this piece and I have quite a colorful history.

So this is the transposed score; I don't know quite what the etiquette for these things is, if anyone would like the C score I can post that as well.

Any feedback is extremely appreciated, especially anything regarding playability, wind etiquette, articulations, and the general form/flow of the piece. Thank you muchly!

wind quintet.pdf

wind quintet.sib

wind quintet.mid

first time writing for winds?

an excellent first time, I might say then!

the musical ideas were fun.

most of the woodwind writing was fine, though I was a tiny bit saddened to notice that the clarinet was relegated to its lower register too much.

there were a few spots that were maybe a TINY bit "virtuosic" for the horn.

and the bassoon does need a bit of break time to rest!

some very fine musical ideas in this. a bit frantic for now, but you could work on this, extract all the wonderful musical ideas and really build up something of very good quality from it.

P.S. I like the title! I'm not one to look for "inspired" titles for my works either... "sonata", "symphony", "quintet"... those are often enough for me.

I liked this very much. It seemd to skirt between a few different styles, and was entertaining.

I dont have much in the way of criticism, except that the single trill seemed out of place in the piece, wasn't reinforced as an element, and was the only point where my ears sort of questioned anything.

Nice work, in my opinion!

Nice work! There's several score issues like very odd slur shapes and I wouldn't mind a small size to everything in general (3 systems to a page please!), but I think musically it's very good. There were a few blips here and there but I think it works out very nicely at the end. Well done!

there were a few spots that were maybe a TINY bit "virtuosic" for the horn.

Like I said, I've got no clue what I'm doing--so if you could cite specific passages, that'd be muchly helpful.

some very fine musical ideas in this. a bit frantic for now, but you could work on this, extract all the wonderful musical ideas and really build up something of very good quality from it.

Okay, so I'm a bit slow, and awful at editing my own work, so for clarity's sake: what exactly are you suggesting that I do? Trim the unnecessary material? Tighten the form? Be more consistent at developing ideas, rather than having thematic ADD, and jumping around in four-bar thematic chunks? Or finding the good bits, pulling them out, and making them into entirely new pieces? This is me going off the top of my head, but a lot of it is stuff I feel I should probably do to this piece--like I said, I've hardly ever done intense, non-superficial editing, so anywhere you can give me to start, I'd appreciate immensely. Thanks!!

As a horn player I can tell you what part's would be a bit difficult; there aren't many!

Measures:51 and 52 This would be a bit hard because the upper E and F#'s most intune fingerings are the same. Definitely playable, however.

Wow, I was expecting a lot more than that from what QC said. Really, I think the part isn't that virtuosic. The range is very modest, which is fine. Fine horn writing, imo.