Antonin Dvorak, Ludwig van Beethoven, Wolfgang Amadues Mozart, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Claude A. Debussy, Franz Schubert, Ravel, Frederick Chopin, Gabriel Faure, Maurice Ravel, Igor Stravinsky, Felix Mendelssohn, Camille Saint-Saens
My Compositional Styles
Baroque or Romantic. Mostly Romantic.
Notation Software/Sequencers
Finale; Noteflight.com;
Instruments Played
Clarinet; Bass Clarinet; Flute; Piccolo; Alto, tenor Saxophones; Piano
Ravel was very much influenced by American jazz and you can certainly hear the influence in his music through pentatonics and somewhat instrumentation. I would study the elements of jazz along with Ravels compositions and that would help you immensely. After all, if you like Ravel's works then you are likely to like some jazz. I would avoid avante-garde for the moment though. It's a bit advanced and new.
I'm sorry to say that I will have to resign from the competition. My hard drive crashed and burned and I lost all of my data, including my work on the composition I was to enter.
The description on the page has a stipulation that says that "composers and librettists are allowed up to 7 performers (divided between instrumentalists and singers as you wish)" does this mean no grand orchestra? What the hell kind of opera is that, then?
I get Manuscript books called Archives from Sam Ashes. It's 96 page 10 stave..... slightly larger than the other book I had, but you could probably find a bigger book from the same company. There was a website on my book that I have never been to, but you can go if you wanted to check it out. it was www.daddario.com Goodluck finding a great stave book!
The reason I do not like the sound quality is because some of it sounds fake, like the piano, for instance. What I would like is a notation sequencer that does what noteflight does, but offers high quality symphonic sounds.