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Hi everyone. I wanted to compose a piece that I could play...so I composed a piece for oboe and cello. I intend the piece to have orchestra accompaniment is I decide to finish it. I don't know if there is really good stuff in here or not so I need your help/advice. The midi is attached.

adagio_for_cello_and_oboe.MID

cornelia.MUS

It's definitely good stuff! Worth carrying on with. I think the piano accompaniment is fine on it's own- it doesn't really need an orchestral accompaniment, but that's just my opinion.

The harmonies are nice and the parts go together well, maybe it needs a little more variety of rhythm and texture though? You could add a contrasting section with (for example) a faster tempo, staccato notes and a major key, then come back into the original theme again?

Also, I think it would make a nice introduction to a faster piece (like the fast bit at the end)- You could call it 'Adagio and Allegro for oboe and cello' for example.

It sounds very nice though! I like it lots! Keep going! :)

Haha...that was the original title. I don't really know how I am going to continue on to an Allegro. I am really running out of inspiration with this piece. I just started it today so perhaps I will let it sit awhile then come back to it. I have attempted to get it into the major key but nothing I am trying seems to flow. That is what is frustrating about this piece... Oh well. Thank you so much for your help. =]

nice.

I like this a lot. There is some good stuff in there. I'm not the right person to critique something but I may as well try. I like the blend between oboe and cello throught this. Maybe the piano part is a little annoying in the sense that it's really really boring to play. Sure it sounds good, and it does, but a person would rather beat themselves over the head a sledgehammer than play these chords over and over and over and over and over and over again. Maybe there should be a place where the pianist gets to show off that he can play more than chords, like arpeggios or something? and the end part sounds good, but is it suddeny supposed to get faster like that, maybe a rallentando (awesome word eh?) leading into it or just smooth it up a bit.

So, great job, I look forward to seeing this finished. Maybe with different movements?

>Mitchell<

Whoops, the nice at the beginning wasn't sarcasm.

Well it is going to be for orchestra if I do finish it. I was thinking more of a stringendo leading up to the faster part. I don't know how I would feel about a rallantando. This piece would be performed...quite soon actually...if completed. It's premiere could end up in Russia. I was asked to write a piece for cello and oboe...but it wasn't anything official. It was one of those, "it would be nice..." ideas.

I wouldn't have seen it as sarcasm. I honestly don't understand any sarcasm. It's a brain block or something. I do not pick up on it.

Haha...that was the original title. I don't really know how I am going to continue on to an Allegro. I am really running out of inspiration with this piece. I just started it today so perhaps I will let it sit awhile then come back to it. I have attempted to get it into the major key but nothing I am trying seems to flow. That is what is frustrating about this piece... Oh well. Thank you so much for your help. =]

Wow, you write fast! It takes me weeks/months to write a piece because I write a few bars then lose interest/inspiration and move on to a different piece! I've got soooo many unfinished pieces!

What I hate is when i've got a piece into a really obscure piece and can't get it back into the original key! That's what happened in my 'Carousel' piece, if you've heard it!

Anyway, I like your piece! Persevere, it will be worth it!

Aha I see, I just meant slow down a bit when I said rallentando (I love that word), nothing technical.

It doens't really need an orchestra, but if you intend on giving them more interesting parts than the piano, go ahead. Just make sure it gets recorded. :)

And then post it here. Or something..

Wow, that would be really cool if you could get your piece performed! Would it be professionally performed? Why were you asked to write it? Sorry i'm being nosy now!

Yes, you should go on with this material. If you're having trouble working out what to do next just put it down, take a break, perhaps work on something else. Later, run it through in your mind just letting it go on as if you're listening to someone else's work. Something may suggest itself.

Good luck.

:)

Is it wrong to ask you two to review my band piece in orchestral here? It's called Concert band anyone and is probably a bit down on the page.

I wish I'd be asked to get something I write performed!

Pretty close to being professionally performed. I was asked to write it because a conductor I play for wanted to feature me and the first cellist in an upcoming concert. We were originally going to play Veris Gratia by Leighton, but the parts are going to be on hire at another venue for the time we would be performing. We will still be playing our own concertos... I will be playing the Vaughan Williams Concerto and the cellist will play a Shostakovich concerto. She wanted to do a duet piece with him and me playing to end the concert. That's how it was "commissioned" except it wasn't really...lol.

Wow... I would be too scared to play a solo concerto in a concert! What orchestra are you in? (I'm assuming you are the oboist in the orchestra doing this concert?)

I wish I could play a concerto for something.

maybe someone should write a tenor sax concerto for concert band that's semi-easy so my band could play it. *wink*

New England Youth Ensemble/New England Symphonic Ensemble

I'm in Southampton Youth Orchestra. We're doing Vaughan Williams 'The lark ascending' at the moment. The solo violin part is amazing! (i'm not playing it though)

Finished! Well....the piano reduction is. It's now Agadio and Allegro for Oboe, Violincello and Orchestra. And it's not finished perse...but this is my working rough draft. Feel free to ridicule, scrutinize and praise. I love it when you do that for me!

adagio_for_cello_and_oboe.MID

If you do listen, please tell me if you liked it or not. I see there are 7 downloads...and zero critiques.

I think this is a really cool piece, and it would be great if you could get it performed. I'm in a hurry, but I'll comment in depth later.

okay, well I stand by what I said before. Good blend. Boring piano, but it's being changed to orchestra so that doesn't matter. You should slow down a bit right before the allegro.

Another thing. The average person wants to hear something exciting too. Your allegro is fine, but the Adagio is completely squashing it. You need to add about a minute or two more of allegro to this so that your audience gets the satifying exciting classical music that they expected because half of them don't know what "adagio and allegro" means.

Anyhow, overall this is great.

>Mitchell<

Yeah... I added repeats to the adagio. I hate myself for that. I always try to take the easy way out. It's just so hard to go back and put new stuff in when you are using Finale. I'll be sure to do add to the Allegro when I orchestrate it. I am also thinking about adding two cadenzas. One for the Adagio and one for the Allegro. I'm thinking Cello' for Adagio and oboe for Allegro.

ah, good, good.

A repeat? Naughty naughty.

Post the finale file. ;)

WOW,

deffinitely continue.

I can't wait to hear a fully orchestrated version.

Wow, it's really good!

I agree with Mitchell that it should slow down or pause just before the allegro.