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It's a dance! Hope you enjoy.

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Hey @WowBroThatWasReallyEdgy!

It's great to hear another of your expertly orchestrated pieces!  This one gives me vibes of Debussy - especially his "Petite Suite" - "Ballet".  It's a great early work of Debussy - I highly recommend it!  There's not much to critique here, the piece is very well conceived orchestrally, harmonically and melodically and stays lucid and interesting throughout its duration.  I just wish it was longer.  Another thing is that the theme made me expect a more impressionistic approach to harmony, but it ended up being a more functional common practice type of harmony.  Thanks for sharing!

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Peter, thank you very much for listening and your feedback.

  On 9/23/2024 at 2:11 AM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

This one gives me vibes of Debussy - especially his "Petite Suite" - "Ballet".  It's a great early work of Debussy - I highly recommend it!

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I will have to check it out! The vision of this piece was actually created when I rewatched Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire - the scene where Harry and Ron are at the bottom of the stairs and see Hermoine (I think I'm spelling that right) come down the stairs for the dance.

  On 9/23/2024 at 2:11 AM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

I just wish it was longer.

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My current plan is to make 3-to-5-minute pieces that differ in character, tone, and color while using the same orchestral template. This dance, along with Tyrant, will be the 3rd movement in a 4-movement suite for orchestra. I'm currently working on a piece called Abraxas that is similar to Tyrant in tempo and energy. However, Abraxas will be more diabolic sounding.

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Awesome! The orchestration is great, very reminiscent of Tchaikovsky. I really like the buildup at the end to the big trombone descending scale. The only constructive thing I would say is I think the trombones should play something instead of a descending scale here. Maybe try and find one of the descending motives from somewhere else in the piece? I think this would give the piece more overall motivic unity and make this moment more impactful.

Either way very well done, thanks for sharing!

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  On 9/28/2024 at 3:08 PM, gmm said:

Awesome! The orchestration is great, very reminiscent of Tchaikovsky.

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Thank you! I appreciate that; it means a lot coming from an orchestrator like yourself. 

 

  On 9/28/2024 at 3:08 PM, gmm said:

The only constructive thing I would say is I think the trombones should play something instead of a descending scale here.

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I believe you're talking about page 10 in the pdf, right? In truth, I'm not entirely satisfied with the ending either. It feels compositionally hurried. 

This has me reconsidering writing a different ending with more in common with the rest of the piece.

 

Thanks for the feedback!

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