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Poème symphonique - Le matin


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Hello! I am new to the forum, and I am very happy to have found this place where you could listen to so many new compositions of the instrumental and classical type. Here is one of the latest work of mine, it's not very recent though, its dates back to august, I have been experiencing a really bad block and I just can't seem to write significant stuff anymore. Anyway, the piece is titled morning, It's for orchestra and piano (although the piano is not the focus there), and as the titled says, it depicts the morning, and the impressions it imprints. For the same reason as the block I've been having, I finished the piece differently, I originally intended it to be much longer, with far more developments (with the ideas in my mind), but I just couldn't seem to write something that satisfied me, so I cut it shorter cause I had a deadline to submit it somewhere. So here it is, I am not a professional composer and I am mostly self taught in this domain. I'd be happy to know opinions, and advices on what and how to improve.

Here is the link to the youtube video with the score (choose the HD quality if you want to read the score)

 

 

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It sounds lovely but doesn't really flow in my opinion. A lot of the early sections don't have very much connective tissue and do a lot of jumping between things that I know should connect but never end up actually doing so because the focus on the narrative was more important than the focus on transition. The two should always have a healthy balance.
Piano writing could either use cross-staff voicing or simply having the right hand play the high notes, instead of having it all based on the left hand. This can be fixed by having the left hand play a longer note with the right hand the higher ones.
String slurs are not expressive. A string player will always look at them as bowings. 
Your choice of key... have you considered making it neutral, or more frequently changing it? You do a lot of internal modulation, which is cool, but it isn't reflected properly in the writing.
Writer's block can be tough, but I encourage you to revisit this with an open mind. It's a beautiful start. :)

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Thank you for sharing this with the forum. I enjoyed the orchestral colors and the long leisurely gestures very much. I found that it has a nice arc with a mood that is confident and honest in its delivery. It is poem-like. It did seem a little short, however, the ending being abrupt. One thing you might try is a simple repeat of the opening material and the lovely clarinet solo. That would give it a sense of symmetry that I noticed was missing, thematically.

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  • 4 weeks later...

I agree with the other posters -- this is very beautiful in its use of orchestral colors and Impressionistic chords and modulations.

It feels as though this should be one section of a longer symphonic poem. Maybe you could try imagining the morning from a different point of view (traffic, a hectic workday, or whatever you like) to add some contrast before reconciling the two moods. 

Very well done! I'll be listening again. 

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