Nocturne for Orchestra

Beautiful Nocturne I wrote for an orchestra

orchestralnocturne.mid

Parts:

Flute

Oboe

Violin

Viola

Cello

Guitar

Celesta

Cymbals

Triangle

Timpani

I'm not fond of the opening. I feel like the percussion, for the most part, is over-scoring for the relatively small instrumentation. The timpani and cymbals will end up drowning out your guitar with the big timpani rolls and cymbal crashes.

The second half, though, with the polyrhythmic figures, was much more to my liking. I'd greatly like to see a score of this to be able to give specific thoughts and suggestions. I imported your midi into Finale, and it's implying 4/4 with a metronome marking of 120. Please tell me you're kidding.

Looking at the score, there seem to be many instances of direct copy-pasting of phrases with a changed note or two. If you're going to repeat phrases, use different instruments, different ranges, different modalities, etc, etc to keep things fresh.

The 5/8 section I especially liked. I feel like the whole piece could comfortably shift from 5 to 6 fluidly, getting rid of some of the fluff.

hmmm...it starts out in 4/4 but its supposed to be at speed 100 :/

Oh well...xD

thanks for the criticism ill work on it

If you want your music to be critiqued by others, it is a simple process which does not involve bumping a thread to the top of a page.

Try getting involved a little. There are many here that if you comment on their music, they will return the favor and comment on yours. If you have the time to bump your own thread, certainly you have the time to listen and comment on a few other's works as well.

It also helps if you post a link to a mp3.

Ron

I liked it, sounds great just not found of the midi sound.

Could you look at my song?

http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/lullaby-20871.html

thanks a lot guys :)