Dante

"Your Flight was smooth I hope..." "Oh yes!"

Sweet; a composition for Brass! I'd first like to say that I like the ideas that you have going here. There are, however, some range issues. Nothing you have written is out of playable range, but it would take a very experianced player to jump around so many different registers of the horn within the same measure at that tempo. I'd hate to see the look on the trombone guy's face if you were to hand him this piece; no ideal place for a breath either. You expect an extensive range on the french horn too, I see. You don't go out of range here either, but you could say that there is no real range limit with a french horn- just a range at which expecting someone to play it with a good sound is impractical. Playing so many running notes that high on a standard double F/Eb horn is also a challenge because your open intervals are so close together (you can essentially play all the notes in high registers like that without fingerings). The Tuba part gets rather high for a tuba, too. that top line A in Bass clef is equivelent to a B above the staff for a french horn in treble clef. and then later in the piece you go all the way down to a pedel F! Overall, it would probably be a good idea to rewrite it for a larger ensemble or spreading the parts out a bit better so that the range is not as impractical and sparatic. I wasn't too fond of the repetative trumpet section of the piece, but it's your piece. Anyhow, write more for brass!

Brass choir is my forte and I've never written for voice before, but I'd love to join in on the competition, if I may!

Aye, very beautiful indeed.

Bellissima! I never knew music like this was possible. I don't know what else to say.

Ah, and this is another thought that goes with it. Sorry 'bout all the accidentals; the first half of it was sort of an accident in itself. :shifty: Crescere.MUS

Ok, here's another piece I'm working on. I've already gotten a small brass ensemble together to run through the first part so I can hear it, and the 1st baritone player didn't like it at all (on account of the dissonance, I assume). I love it (I was playing horn) and so do the trumpets. Hmm... sesso.MUS

Wow, it does kind of sound like Water Music, but I've never realized that until now! It most certainly was not intentional, but that's a phrase that I've based much of the piece on. Wow, I guess I should point this out to my director... Thanks for pointing it out, though.

Hey, thanks for listening! No, Solo and Ensemble isn't until December, so I can still clean it up a bit until then. Yeah, I see what happened at measures 46 & 47; that's supposed to be a 3/4 measure but for some reason or another I left it as a 4/4 measure.

Ok, so this is one of my pieces. It's a short horn fanfare that I wrote for a local solo and ensemble festival. I'm new to this forum, but I'd appreciate your praise/critisizm. Enjoy...or not. Trio.MUS

May I point out, though, that most Whitacre peices are full of dissonance? Listen to "Sleep," it's not a lullaby, but it's full of dissonance.