November 17, 201114 yr Author Post them. I can't. My computer stuffs up every time I try. Anyway I haven't scanned in my original manuscript yet.
November 18, 201114 yr Careful, Froggy. This guy has an advanced degree. ;) LOL... I believe he knows that! :D (from a different forum)... Thing is that composing for orchestra is SO MUCH more than just doubling and 'just' thinking in colors. It's all the range, the dynamics, the colors (yes, ok), the phrasings, the everything. It's not an easy going path by all means. Of course I have composed 'tons' of orchestral music, either for my PhD (which never got performed to be honest, so I'm not 'counting them'), either for computer games and virtual instruments. I know my way around an orchestra, but it's only very recently that I started feeling more secure, or confident enough to start knocking on doors and grabing commissions and arrange for performances... Anyhow froggy: Best of luck in the competition! ;)
November 18, 201114 yr Author Thanks Nikolas! Yeah I know it's more than just colours when composing orchestral music, but that is my favourite part of it!
November 19, 201114 yr Author I don't have much that is on my actual computer though. About 5% of my compositions are in Sibelius, 10% scanned in as pdfs and the rest are original manuscripts stored in various folders or lying on my desk in my room. ------------ Actually probably more like 8% overall on my computer and 92% stored elsewhere.
November 19, 201114 yr Author Ok thanks. I'll do that sometime soon I hope. I'm very busy at the moment.
November 20, 201114 yr Author Haha :D No my instrumental exams are coming up. Plus my viola assessment and guitar assesment at school. And I have to finish a piece for another competition by Friday.
November 20, 201114 yr Back on topic! My music, generally gets performed at least once a month. I try and have at least one creative project performing every few weeks. Most frequently right now is the Quintet.... although, I plan on getting Blunt Object back on the rails. :)
November 23, 201114 yr Just curious to know. At a minimum, I try to get things performed or at least read twice a year. I am slowly becoming more and more dependent on performances since I dislike greatly sending MIDI mock ups to competitions. Live recordings are so important to me at this point in my career.
November 26, 201114 yr For me, rarely. I've only had my very first composition (Fiddlers' Embandment) performed three times this year. I'll have another piece of mine get performed this December. Well, I started composing last year, so that must be a lot of progress!
November 27, 201114 yr I've heard only three of my works performed in my lifetime. The first was a short piece for piano and trumpet, which I dedicated to one of my high school teachers who happened to be an outstanding trumpet player. The second one was another short piece for piano and chorus (part of a larger, unfinished work), which was played by a pianist plus four singers. The third is by far my most beloved memory: a private performance of one of my orchestral suites by the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica, of which I managed to record the last two movements. I could not arrange for a public performance of it, but nevertheless it has been the high water mark of my career as a composer to date.
November 27, 201114 yr Author Hmmm… interesting story about the piano and trumpet piece. I once wrote a short piece for trombone and piano for one of the music teachers at my primary school. He said he would get it recorded for me and I've been waiting for about three years now for that to happen! :( Oh well… I do feel sorry for the guy when I found out what the trombone WAS and WASN'T capable of. I had written some long and incredibly fast passages entirely in the whole tone scale! :D
November 27, 201114 yr I do feel sorry for the guy when I found out what the trombone WAS and WASN'T capable of. I had written some long and incredibly fast passages entirely in the whole tone scale! :D *facepalm*
November 28, 201114 yr Author I feel bad for piccolo players. I mean: they can't even hit the E below the staff. That is so depressing, I think I'm going to cry now.I mean: what's the point of writing for an orchestra, when every instrument isn't capable of exactly the same things as every other instrument? The beauty of the orchestra is that its range of instruments are so diverse. I think that it is a bit of a let down that some instruments are less versatile than others, or can't play in the same way as others, but hey we still have some incredible orchestral repertoire and there's a whole lot of fantastic orchestral compositions yet to be written!
November 28, 201114 yr The beauty of the orchestra is that its range of instruments are so diverse. I think that it is a bit of a let down that some instruments are less versatile than others, or can't play in the same way as others, but hey we still have some incredible orchestral repertoire and there's a whole lot of fantastic orchestral compositions yet to be written! I don't even have a snarky comment for this one.
November 29, 201114 yr Author Froglegs, go read a book. I recommend this one. Ah yes, I know the one. I think my favourite is Cecil Forsyth's Orchestration.
November 29, 201114 yr I recommend the Blatter. Actually I only recently was able to get this one and it seemed very cool. The whole concept of "dynamic curve" simplifies a lot of things that Adler tries to explain in prose, often clumsily.
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