stewboy Posted May 25, 2019 Share Posted May 25, 2019 This is my first ever 'proper' piece for orchestra. It was going to be performed by a student orchestra back home, but the conductor has postponed on me twice already and I suspect it might not ever get played, which is a shame. It started off with the initial melody, which appeared in my head one day and stayed there for a few weeks until I finally got it down on the score. I always intended the piece to start off light and get darker as the piece progressed, although I never had any idea what the actual structure was going to be until I was almost at the end. In a way, the piece is kind of representative of aspects of my personality. This piece features a lot of the harmonic and colour-related ideas that I've been playing around with during this last year of my master's degree. It was also my first ever serious attempt at writing for a string section, which turned out to be harder than I thought - a lot of the feedback I got from my tutor as I was writing this piece was on how low I was writing the violins and violas, because I think I was subconsciously treating them like winds. I think I managed to fix a lot of those issues by the end though. Overall, writing for orchestra isn't something that appeals to me a lot right now, probably because I'm just not used to it, but that might change as my career (hopefully) progresses. MP3 Play / pause JavaScript is required. 0:00 0:00 volume > next menu Schoolyard > next PDF Schoolyard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tónskáld Posted July 7, 2019 Share Posted July 7, 2019 This... was phenomenal! Very Holst-like in its harmonies and rhythms, but I definitely heard the schoolyard playfulness there. Superb job!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stewboy Posted July 9, 2019 Author Share Posted July 9, 2019 Thank you! I've been listening to a lot of Holst lately and I think I see the comparison. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Left Unexplained Posted September 24, 2019 Share Posted September 24, 2019 (edited) Holy cow man. Edited October 10, 2019 by Left Unexplained . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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