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Hello On this occasion, and to increase my skills with regard to brass instruments, I have orchestrated a song by Mendelssohn, Op. 19 No. 3 (Hunting Song), originally for solo piano. The ensemble consists of four French horns, two trumpets, two trombones, and one tuba. I had to improvise to resolve some passages where the registers were very high, but it is not a literal copy, rather a version with certain liberties taken. I have respected the original key (A major, which is not bad for brass). But another might have been better, such as B flat major (but some notes were too high for me). Everything is untransposed and in separate systems (I am working on condensing it with the programme, but it's a bit of a nightmare...).

Hi @interlect! Welcome back to the forum! I actually really like this piece! It has a sort of hypnotic/mesmerizing repetition which makes it really dreamy/magical to me. I love how the melody is scored as well; sometimes with solo lines; other times with a more heterophonic texture. Great job and thanks for sharing! I can't get enough of it!

Hello Tristan :3 thank you so much for the compliments. I would say though, I think I wasn't as bad in orchestration as you thought I was back than. I just really did not care about the quality of the pieces that I made in my youtube videos, so I would resort to copy pasting most of the time. with that being said, this is definitely a piece I could not compose last time we've talked have a great day

oh great points I didn't notice most of that and yeah I tend to lean quite a lot to the string section thank you so much for the reply

to be frank I actively avoided making this piece too diffrent from the original, as I share the proccess of creating my piece on youtube, and people really want to hear something the recognize instently. I appreciate the kind words a lot though, thank you so much.

totally fair points, I might fix it in the future thank you so much! funny people here follow after my youtube I'm now kind of regretting I didn't bother making that piece playble though