What Are Your Compositional New Year's Resolutions?

Mine is to pay more attention to the form of my pieces and hopefully be able to compose longer and more developed pieces.

To write a piano concerto which is properly orchestrated, notated and playable for all instruments... And to explore and develop non-tonal, more modern possibilities of composition.

stop sucking, write simpler pieces, employ more direct means of expression unfiltered by the arbitrary conventions of western concert music

learn to play the pianoforte.... or some instrument anyway

To learn more and to get better. Also to get something performed if possible.

AND to stick to my New Year's resolutions for more than a week.

To somehow find time in my crazy schedule to finish the string quartet I'm working on. Also, to explore more styles of composition, become better at fugal writing, perhaps learn more about atonal music, and write for larger ensembles.

To finally finish my third symphony.

I am very much looking forward to February, because, as I hope to have finished my final exams by them, I have that whole month to pose as a full time composer, working on a competition entry.

To actually finish a bloody piece of music, instead of constantly creating 25 second stubs!

Get into college and learn how to write music.

stop sucking, write simpler pieces, employ more direct means of expression unfiltered by the arbitrary conventions of western concert music

 

learn to play the pianoforte.... or some instrument anyway

How do you mean this? Are these words advices for me? I already play the pianoforte.

How do you mean this? Are these words advices for me? I already play the pianoforte.

i mean those as a response to "what are your compositional new years' resolutions"

you know like the title says

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So you don't play an instrument and you say to yourself that you "suck"??... :horrified:

-spend at least 6 hours a day on music (with >2-3 actually composing)

-get a teacher; get into some kind of music program

Bake and eat a lot of treble clef-shaped cookies.

Write the three pieces I have committed to doing (performances already scheduled); put together a portfolio and apply for PhD study in composition; get a piece performed in a foreign country (suprisingly, Iceland may be the most likely); write more chamber music; get stuff recorded.

This may sound more like a 'to do' list than a series of resolutions; that's because at a technical level my long-term aims in composition remain the same every January 1st.

Start submitting to more competitions and have more works performed outside of the University system.