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Hey, I like this! I can only access the midi file, and I'm not well versed in this kind of technique, but I can really feel a sense of direction and excitement in the piece, a unity of all the material, and a satisfying conclusion. One thing though: I hope you have a particular clarinetist in mind (Jessica?), because this is reeeeally hard. Also, for some reason I heard the piano on the MIDI file instead of the clarinet. Is this intentional? This is a great piece! Good job!

My first impressions (I don't have Sibelius so I can't access the score): Please, if you can, change the sound patch for your instruments. They sound, uh, something terrible, let alone anything near a violin, viola and cello. The melody is very promising. I wish you'd develop it more coherently. You could pull off the shift from your strictly tonal theme to polychords and dissonance better if you incorporated a bit of the latter into the chords of the first theme, and in the development played around with that theme in the same tonal manner you presented it in. The violin, viola, and cello all have much, much larger capabilities and ranges. I hardly even hear you going to the E string on the violin. I'm a violinist, and I could probably play most of what you've written for it at least two or three octaves above. It would make it so much more interesting if you worked with that a lot more. Keep it up - with work (and hopefully private instruction by a composition teacher), you will develop into a very good composer! :P

I heard it mainly in fragments. It's like I can decide what sort of thing I want to hear, then it comes. I meant it to be funny. Hence the term buffoons. :unsure:

I echo the previous person's sentiments: impressive! The orchestration is very good, (nice use of the percussion, I must say) and you succeeded in your goal of making it sound like film music. Except at 1:00, where the style changed and it ended up sounding like a classical 1800's style overture, then switching back to your original style. But overall, I liked it! :D

Actually, I had no inspiration before I sat down - when I looked at the blank page I could *make* myself think of something. The general character of the piece developed only as I created new material. But yeah, it was fun. :D

Thanks for your help! ;)

Hi all, I'm new here, and I look forward to interacting with other composers. Here is the first movement of my (unfinished) suite for two bassoons. It took a few days to write, edit, etc. I quite enjoyed writing it, but the style isn't representative of everything I do yet - currently I feel more comfortable writing atonally when there are less things to deal with. Enjoy! *EDIT* It appears that the MIDI file messed some notes up. Follow the score while listening if you want to get a more exact sense of the piece. Bassoon.pdf Bassoon.MID

I'm wanting to post .MUS, .PDF, and .MID files on here, but I don't know how to create a link to them that the average Joe who doesn't have my computer can click on. I don't have a website of my own, so is there a way to host the file on this website? Thanks!

I specialize in both violin and piano. Practice schedules are crazy, but I haven't quit one, or even focused on one. Though I do most of my composing in my head, while looking at the manuscript.

I started four years ago, when I was ten, and my violin teacher asked me to write something (I can't even remember why). I did write it, it sounded good, and it took off from there. I've only really been getting momentum recently, because I had no teacher previously. I find that with every new composition, I advance one more step stylistically. Right now, it's a mix of tonality and atonality. Maybe it'll stay that way. I don't know.