Peripheral Moods (for string orchestra and piano)

Hi all.

This is a piece I've been working on for the last few weeks, presented in five short movements.

Still needs some polishing and refinement.

It's for sting orchestra with grand piano and electric piano (plus some minor percussion at the end).

Have included a temporary score, which is literally just the midi data pulled into MuseScore: so I haven't done any annotation at all.

Some parts need to be merged, e.g. the two contrabass staves, and the violin tremolo with the other violin staves.

Some of the first and second violin passages need to be switched around, and at one point I've accidentally put some of the second violin notes into the first violin score.

Also need to add divisi markings, dynamics, etc...

At one point I temporarily change time signature; though I haven't marked this in the score. Not sure that passage works?

Also may need to change the G flats in the timpani to F naturals. Not sure why I wrote it like that!

For some reason MuseScore seems to have misplaced treble clefs in the grand piano score (Bar 62), and in the first violin score (Bar 64).

Interested to know what you think of my string harmonies against the piano in Bars 61 to 84?

The piece maybe feels a bit disjointed in places. I had lots of ideas; but bringing them all together was quite difficult!

I think the meter change works just fine and gives a nice contrast.  I don't know if this is just a matter of personal taste but I question whether the use of electric piano was necessary and if it could maybe be replaced by some other instruments like celesta and glockenspiel.  That might just be my predilection towards using acoustic vs. electric instrumentation.

Many thanks for listening Peter.

I used the electric piano because I wanted a bright atmospheric sound, with lots of reverb.
Think the closest orchestral equivalent is the vibraphone, and it does sound quite nice with that substitution. 

I tried to create different moods and textures in the piece: so hopefully it's not too repetitive?
Think the fourth movement is probably the most successful.
For the opening cello passage in the first movement, I think I had Elgar's cello concerto floating vaguely around at the back of my mind!

Here's a version of my piece with the vibraphone substituted for the electric piano.