Chromatic Sketches

Hello Everyone,

I wrote this piece out of boredom today and is sort of an experimental piece on timpani and the effect of chromatics and scale stacking. Hope you enjoy it!

Best,

HoYin  

Interesting piece but the timps came over too incessant and...well, I've had no experience of pedal timps - can they be returned at the rate you expect? 

Nicely varied, a fairly virtuoso piano part and about the right length.  It was enjoyable at that length but I think I'd have had trouble if it were longer. It sometimes pays to experiment and this piece has its moments. However, I know nothing about "scale stacking," and presume this is an academic term. 

Again, work on the notation of the rhythms... using 4/4 sets certain layout expectations for the player.
You have a lot of confidence in your timpani player. It's not impossible, especially with 5 timpani, but certainly harder to retune them especially near the end of the piece. Timpani scales are part of audition repertoire, but typically much slower for obvious reasons.

@Monarcheon @Quinn

Yes, for sure there should be 5-6 timpani or it wouldn't work well, I guess. And 2-3 players required, too. I should have specified more clearly on the score. 

At most excerpts, the phrase is going up or keep alternating between 3-4 notes. So to make it playable, the players may have to distribute their parts well, such that one of them can be playing while others are re-tuning their timpani, and so on.