Vernon

You're probably not using your material wisely. The material you have will stretch a long way granted you know how to keep it sounding interesting. Look at some of Beethovens works, he'll use the same cell often 30 to 40 times without pause. Try going in to some of your pieces and find ways that you can repeat a phrase but make it sound like it is more a continuation then an exact repeat. It's like writing in English class. You have your main statement, but then you have to flesh it out. Everything you write after that statement still somehow pertains to the topic, but in contrast to the topic. Wow, I don't know if that helped or made you more confused.

I'm sorry that I went MIA, I've been working on finishing up my Violin concerto and 3 other movements for my symphony, and Starting up an Orchestra in my Hometown! You guys are doing great so far though!

Let your mind go, that helps me. Listen to lots of music that is in the direction of what you would like to write, if you're a violist you should be half way done.

This has been happening only recently as far as I can remember... Finale 2008 won't do a mid measure clef, not matter what! I'm sure it was working fine before they asked me to update it to finale 2008a. What should I do?

I just heard the opening today, I wonder who is gonna take the first aria??? oingo will you be online today?

Those ranges are for choral singers. In opera a soprano should be able to sing a high C, and Tenor at least a high B natural. Oingo86, lets get together sometime and work on the libretto together.

so true.

I'm still mad about mid-measure clefs in 08, what happened to the little tick box?!

Yes, yes you should, it would be much appreciated. It will be great when I start learning how to sequence.

I think I'll just compose the pieces and get a friend to do all the program stuff for me. Sounds like a great partnership.

You know, you could look into Benjamin Britten Simple Symphony for strings, he does a whole movement in pizz a real eye opener.

I agree, that helps sometimes.

"Mahler was always obsessed with death as evident in his fear of writing a 9th symphony because he thought that he'd die soon after its completion." -Romanticist Somebody should have told Haydn and mozart that.... jk

I can write for orchestra fairly well. That's my favorite canvas. I'll keep looking out for anything. There really aren't any specifics, it's all up to the composer, chamber usually just refers to a smaller number of people usually without a conductor, the first chair violinist will be the one in charge.

I listened to those voices of passion, and I just about cried!!! They're beautiful.