A Duet for Oboe and Bassoon

The first segment of the piece ("When Do We Celebrate the Galactic New Year?") was more popular than I expected, so I produced a set of short movements that continued the ideas of the original piece.

Link to the score: https://musescore.com/user/118018538/scores/35528798

Please post link to the original work (for comparison). Be aware - the Oboe and Bassoon need to breathe! As for the thematic material ... I don't get it 🤔. Please explain your intent.

Mark

What was your thought process behind creating this piece? I echo the above user's comment about posting the original piece so we can hear all the sections together.

Despite the changing meters and the different interactions between the oboe and bassoon, your piece needs variety in my opinion. It kind of feels like the same idea restated a bunch of times. Each section has some slight development, but overall, it feels like "Oboe does this thing, then bassoon does something, repeat". I would love to see these instruments used in a more lyrical way.

@BlackkBeethoven The original piece is just the first section (approx. the first 2 minutes). Minimal editing was done between that and this; I just expanded upon the ideas in the first section to create the subsequent ones and then tacked on an ending. Explicit repetition doesn't occur until the 3rd section, but I guess it does come across a little bit as "Duo spends 8 minutes noodling while trying to decide on what key to play in" at times.

@MJFOBOE I apologize about neglecting consideration for breath. It was something I thought about, but I will admit it wasn't at the front of my mind the entire time, so I probably missed something. As for my intent, I was trying to see what kind of story I could tell by developing the harmony. You may notice that it starts out with a dodecaphonic figure that moves through a couple of other sounds before ending on a cadence that mostly evades the resolution to the target key. Sections 2 and 3 expand on some of the ideas in section 1; the final section is all about delivering the resolution that was set up at the end of the first one.

4 hours ago, GMoneywroteasong said:

Explicit repetition doesn't occur until the 3rd section, but I guess it does come across a little bit as "Duo spends 8 minutes noodling while trying to decide on what key to play in" at times.

This is what I meant, it doesn't always read as concrete as you may want it too. A lot of the material is very similar so it just all blends together.