"Writer's Block" Fanfare - For Brass Quintet

Writer's Block Fanfare.pdfHere's another one for y'all.
I wrote this one earlier this year, while I was getting my bearings with composing again. I started with Brass Quintets and other small ensembles, just to get the hang of it, and because c'mon.. Who doesn't like a brass quintet?! 

As the name implies, I ran out of ideas much earlier than I wanted to. The music on the page was demanding to be what it wanted to be, so, I caved in and just slapped in a resolution to what was already there, and this was the results. Let me know what you guys think 🙂

@PeterthePapercomPoser I fixed the issue with that triplet! Turns out the last muse update fixed whatever was wrong there, because I would've expected the program to flag the score as "corrupt" whenever this was an issue, given that technically, with the eighth triplets, the measure only had 3 beats in 4/4 time... but eh. it's resolved, now! 

I like it as it is, sometimes, when we try to lengthen the works without sense they become boring.
I thought that a piece with a heterophonic organization all the time could also get tiring, but the truth is that this is not the case. 

1 minute ago, Luis Hernández said:

I like it as it is, sometimes, when we try to lengthen the works without sense they become boring.
I thought that a piece with a heterophonic organization all the time could also get tiring, but the truth is that this is not the case. 

 

I concur 🙂 Thank you for the feedback

Hi again @UncleRed99!

Nice quintet!  I have struggled myself to write for brass ensembles as I often expect too much from the Trumpets and think that their range should extend much higher than Musescore allows.  I really enjoyed the music and I think it was good that you found a way out of writer's block using this ensemble.  I also do not think the piece sounds at all unfinished.  I think it easily finds rest and resolution in probably many places - it just seems like one of those pieces somehow.  I noticed something in the score which looks wrong:   The 8th note triplets here take up only the duration of a quarter note and hence the measure for the French Horn here has a duration of 3 beats.  I think the rendition somehow plays it as quarter note triplets akin to this measure:

 and even the pitch content in the French Horn seems the same.

Thanks for sharing!

18 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hi again @UncleRed99!

Nice quintet!  I have struggled myself to write for brass ensembles as I often expect too much from the Trumpets and think that their range should extend much higher than Musescore allows.  I really enjoyed the music and I think it was good that you found a way out of writer's block using this ensemble.  I also do not think the piece sounds at all unfinished.  I think it easily finds rest and resolution in probably many places - it just seems like one of those pieces somehow.  I noticed something in the score which looks wrong:   The 8th note triplets here take up only the duration of a quarter note and hence the measure for the French Horn here has a duration of 3 beats.  I think the rendition somehow plays it as quarter note triplets akin to this measure:

 and even the pitch content in the French Horn seems the same.

Thanks for sharing!

 

I thought so too! 

Musescore did that automatically, and any time I tried to change it, it just inputted the eighth triplet on its own (???) I guess maybe that measure is corrupted in the file and somehow the program didn't catch it? I'll try to do somethin' about it, again, at some point lol 

Thanks for pointing that out to me, confirming that suspicion lol! 

But I suppose it's easy for me with brass quintet music because I was a trumpet player for the better part of 11 years. I understand intimately, the timbre, range, and capabilities of a trumpet, and the other instruments in the brass family as well. Trumpet came naturally to me, as well, once I picked it up. LOVE me some brass ❤️