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Since most of the answers are, sadly, silly jokes, let me try: First listen to all finest concertos for bassoon. Pay close attention to form, motivic gradations, harmonic background, orchestration, the usage of the instrument. But you should inform us, how much experience do you have as a composer and which composers you favour as your influences. I remember when I started to compose at the age of 18, I wrote an oboe concerto with strings. It is terrible, since I had no knowledge of form and motivic workout. I made some melodies in oboe and use strings as a background harmonies with occasional solo exhibitions, in moderato-slow-quasi fast movements. But it's a try-out piece after all...

Yes, you interpreted it exactly as I meant it. When you stack consonances on top of each other, you can form chords. The most commonly used chords are tertian (3 note) chords. Such as: (C E G). Here we have G stacked on E, stacked on C. The intervals between the notes are imperfect consonances (3rd). It is also very very very important to realize that when you have a melody that leaps... For example, C leaping to F (interval of a 4th that you are sequentially playing)... , you are forming a linearized form of a chord. So if C leaps to E, leaps to G, then you have formed (C E G). As for tritone, yes, a tritone is either an augmented fourth or a diminished fifth. For example, the stack (C F#) is an augmented fourth, while the stack (C Gb) is a diminished fifth. F# and Gb are the same notes.

well that sure sounds better than being a dumbass, thanks ahah

People sorry for wasting your time. I was using the wrong clef. Idiot mistake.

Fux gives two kinds of consonances (perfect and imperfect). Anything beyond the consonances are consider dissonances. Consonances = Unision, 3rd, 5th, 6th, octave Perfect consonances = Unision, 5th, octave Imperfect consonances = 3rd, 6th Dissonances = 2nd, 4th (though not considered dissonant in every case), diminished 5th, tritone, 7th Additionally intervals beyond the octave would follow the above, i.e. 9th = 2nd, 10th = 3rd. Therefore 9th = dissonance, 10th = consonance

Check his flute concerto. It's very exciting!

I agree with Composer Phil. You should also avoid any double sharps or flats. Good luck!

They're about as dead as those who dismissed it altogether as "degenerate art". No need to feel persecuted (or to persecute). It's 2012, not 1936.

Come on, no need to play the victim. A bunch of sympathizers of 'modern' music are as often the aggressors in heated debates nowadays: you aren't fooling anyone either :P.

As I said in an earlier post, there are elitists on both sides but in my opinion you can tell the ones who have done the necessary work and still don't like it. There is a certain respect for it still, a recognition that it is well crafted music but it falls outside of their taste. Unfortunately most don't want to do that work and their ignorance is blatantly obvious by the way they attack the music then qualify those attacks in ways that make no sense.

Agreed by experience.