Indigo

This is a piece I just finished. It’s more of a draft, and the main reason I’m posting it hear is for feedback and advice on how to make it better. 
As for the title, I have synesthesia when it comes to relating music and musical notes to colors, and this piece as a whole just really put the color Indigo in my head. 

What jumps out at me when listening with the score is that you have a lot of voice-crossing between the 1st and 2nd violins.  The result of writing your parts like this is that the melodies that are most discernible to the ear don't appear in the score anywhere and are constantly being juggled between the parts so (possibly) confusing the players about who's playing the most important part.  Of course, it is also possible to do this deliberately between the 1st and 2nd violin sections in the orchestra and if they're sitting on opposite sides of the stage, creating a sort of stereo effect between them like Tchaikovsky did in his Pathetique Symphony.  Of course if you intended to write the parts this way that's fine - it does ensure constant motion if the parts are simply switching off each others notes.

Hey Riley

I've listened to a few of your pieces now, and I think this one is a great improvement to what you've presented us so far. This one has two distinct voices, and they play well against each other. Where before you had lots of doubling and sameness in your different instrument voices, this piece shows you've learned a lot composing with how much more variation you've put in the overall texture. Well done, I'm excited to hear more from you!

On 8/24/2020 at 11:35 PM, Thatguy v2.0 said:

Hey Riley

I've listened to a few of your pieces now, and I think this one is a great improvement to what you've presented us so far. This one has two distinct voices, and they play well against each other. Where before you had lots of doubling and sameness in your different instrument voices, this piece shows you've learned a lot composing with how much more variation you've put in the overall texture. Well done, I'm excited to hear more from you!

 

Thanks a lot! It really means a lot, since I practically teach myself composition with just the internet and my AP theory book, so I’m glad that I seem to be getting better.  I will continue to study counterpoint and harmony and hopefully I will continue to get better with it.