Pizza! An Overture on Lost Strays

I haven't looked at composition in almost a decade, but a few months ago MuseScore 4 (which I'm still figuring out how to use) was getting good reviews and I wanted to try it out, and I've been picking at this ever since. I'm only a few drafts in, and there are many things to fix, and the score needs editing, but this is more or less how I want it.

The Overture describes a struggle between Knife Rat, Murder Cat, and Good Doggo over a slice of pizza. It's structurally very simple:

1. Knife Rat 1 - Pizzeria in the City
2. Murder Cat, Personality 1 - My Bam is Boozled That They Took My Pizza
3. Good Dog - Who Rightly Deserves All the Pizza
4. Murder Cat, Personality 2 - My Flabber is Gasted That They Still Have My Pizza
5. Knife Rat 2 - Murder All the scallopes Who Want to Take My Pizza

All suggestions welcome. you might have to turn up the volume a bit high to hear it well.

Edited May 15, 20232 yr by Ivo

Hello @Ivo,

Welcome to the forum!

This is a real great descriptive music describing the pizza-chasing scenes! Real funny music to listen to!

I love the andante section very much even though I feel like it's more allegretto there. Your orchestration is great: Your strings are the real backbone of the orchestra and the lower strings provides good accompaniment to the music with those chasing notes. The woodwinds are sharp and punching and I hope you have used the E-flat clarinet here! I love those altissimo passage like b.25 as it's real funny here. Your brass is forceful like in the opening and they do create climax here and there. Those percussion add many color to the music like glockenspiel and the bells in the slow movement.

I like your tremolo usage in the adagio section as it's add underlying tension to the apparently less dramatic music. The structure here is interesting as you are having a hiatus of fighting but there are always fights bursting out of a sudden with those ff passages. The allegretto sections is lovely with those woodwind solos and the trills are humourous. The last section is close to the first section since they are all called "Kinfe Rat" and again the excitement level is high up to the end.

Your style reminds me a composer named @Krisp here: (Make sure to check out his stuff!)

1 hour ago, Ivo said:

you might have to turn up the volume a bit high to hear it well.

Well the opening is quite a burst!! I have turn it DOWN immediately with those brass sections!

Thanks for sharing your music here and joining us! Make sure to visit other members' posts and possibly review them!

Henry

(Here, are we talking about me?)

Hello, it's been a few days since I started listening to your play. Inevitably, and from the beginning, I have the crowd of Mahler's great squeaky Scherzo jumping in my ears. Suffice to say that I love it.

Bravissimo, both for composition and sound imagination!

Cinematographic, inventive, witty, funny, pathetic, ghostly, disturbing...
And you hold on perfectly over time, keeping the listener in suspense.

(Oh, just by the way... Beware of the management of dynamics in signal processing, the fff are quite clipping). (It's an unimportant detail...)

Edited May 24, 20232 yr by Krisp