Rhapsody for the Cult of the Sun

This started out as a flute piece and eventually turned into a violin piece. I think it's pretty easy to tell when I made the switch, which I chose to do for two reasons: One, I wanted to see what it would sound like on violin, and two, I had the opportunity to have a violin piece read by a professional who was visiting my school. I'm still editing it a bit as far as technical and performance details go.

Well, it's certainly an expressive piece, and a violinist would probably have a lot of fun playing it, and being able to practice all sorts of techniques -- especially rubato :) I also think the way of interpreting the story of this Amaterusa story is very interesting.

But musically, it seems rather long-winded for what is being done here -- 7 minutes of solo violin, with mostly-adagio passages, even with lots of ornaments and such, seems pretty excessive for a performance like this. (Maybe the crowd of people who specifically enjoy solo violin works wouldn't mind though -- that's probably not a terribly far-fetched idea.) The grave sostenuto going into the furious "Stormrise" section was a nice contrast to the previous mellowness though. Maybe I'm missing the point of the piece entirely and am not "getting" it, but this is just my honest impression :dunno:

Thanks for sharing -- criticisms aside, it was interesting to listen to and see the score :nod:

Thanks for having a look at my piece. It's longer than some violin solos but it's also shorter than some others, and with my knowledge of the rep I was thinking that it perhaps wasn't long enough. I really didn't expect it to grow to be so substantial a piece. Maybe I was just subconsciously overcompensating for my perceived lack of skill as a viola/violin player. :D I'm glad that the "narrative" I placed in the piece seems to be welcome. I'm not used to putting so much text in my compositions, but I guess with the somewhat more open-ended style of this piece it works well to help communicate my ideas. Thanks again.