In the Corner, a Scary Monster

*whew* I'm out of shape, lol.

Gustav Johnson

What a nice little jig!  I hear a little influence from "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" by Dukas.  It has the same sort of house-on-stilts kind of feel to it LoL.  The contrabassoon does add a sort of "haunted woods" sort of feel to it.  It brings to mind wood or the monster could be trotting from foot to foot.  Nice job!

Thanks!!

Great little piece! Really impressed at how well the expression comes across even despite the Sibelius soundfount quality. Kinda wish it was longer, but I guess you managed to express all you wanted to within those 30 seconds (which is pretty impressive in itself). It does have a very Halloween vibe to it – I particularly like the way the piccolo and bassoon complement each other, it really adds to that 'haunted woods' feeling.

Just a note on the scoring – I think that when you have a line of single notes on a paired woodwind staff, you're always supposed to indicate who's playing (a2 if both, otherwise 1. or 2. respectively). I saw you did that for the bassoons at the beginning but not anywhere else, which leaves it ambiguous for the players. Also, I believe it's usual to specify the number of players (e.g. '2 bassoons' instead of just 'bassoons'). That's all – great work, thanks for sharing!

@Alexander Reiger Thanks for the feedback Alexander!

I'm woefully bad at producing work longer than ... well, short things like this, lol. My wife says I'd make a good ringtone composer - it's like I'm cursed and can't write anything longer than miniature. "Clipart Composer..." Woot, haha.

Per the scoring issues, you're 100% right and I should probably practice that professionality when I write. Hard to find the motivation when there's really not much a chance this piece (or any others) will get performed, so sometimes I settle for "eh, close enough" when I should take the extra step - an easy thing to fix IF anyone ever wanted to perform it.

Thanks again!

Gustav