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Just a standard instrumentation single movement brass quintet that I was inspired with this week. Not sure what the title represents but it just kind of came to me. Criticism is fully appreciated and I'm sure needed. 

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Really great work! Good use of manipulating the motive in different contexts and overall flow.
Couple small things I see:

  • Couple places with awkward crossed voices. It's especially awkward with the trumpets since it's the same timbre; places like 8, 12, 52, 56, etc. 
  • Make sure your instruments are actually transposed; it says at the beginning of your score trumpet in Bb and Horn in F, but you have a concert score.
  • That horn part is really tough; lots of quick maneuvering in some high registers. Definitely not impossible, but strangely more difficult than the rest of the parts.
  • I don't know if you care about traditional theory, but m. 100 doesn't have a third in it; just pointing that out.
  • m. 107 - do you want trumpet 2 to end a quarter note earlier? Just making sure.
  • There's some stuff that would be hard to get through without breathing. It's not normally a problem but with sustained chords you should expect slight deviations in the steady stream.
  • I felt the held trombone note at 15 distracting and not very useful. Maybe better to have it in contenance angloise with the tuba than a pedal tone.

Again, good job!

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