No problem, happy to help!
For scooping, do you mean pitch bends? Those are pretty doable for just about everyone, but in fast succession or a glissando (like clarinet in Rhapsody in Blue, for example), they don't really work and may not be as defined as you want, depending on the oboist.
I wrote a new piece between Christmas and New Year. It´s in a new style for me, and I really enjoyed to explore this different "language" . I would be very grateful to learn what you think of it, including your critical remarks.
I was influenced by one composer in particular. Can you guess who this was?
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I'd love to see classes on things that traditional theory books don't cover but that are central to composition:
Thematic development
Structuring a work
Techniques for revising a work
Writing for different instruments (above and beyond what you'd get in an orchestration text)