Haggis Steeped In Whiskey for chamber orchestra

Hi all!

Have posted the second and third movements of this before in the incomplete section; but I've now finished all three movements. (N.B. Bar numbers are continuous throughout the work, and each movement is indicated with a large Roman numeral above the system.)

It's for a chamber orchestra concert this Summer.

Interested to hear if members think the work sounds well balanced, motivically coherent and complete, and whether the three movements go together?

Dude, this sounds very ... hm. Reminds me of the Hobbit Shire in Lord of the Rings or a Hobbit's tale or any other JRR Tolkien story that includes that scene! 

Very Majestic sounding. I haven't seen your other movements to this, at the time of writing this response to your piece here now, so I can't speak to their overall compatibility. However, in regard to this piece, there's only a couple of things that stood out to me that would potentially make the piece's readability easier. 

at b.9, adding in a key signature change to Gb Major/Eb minor would help the instrumentalists avoid having to read the accidentals. (i'm sure they'd be fine after a rehearsal or two, but I just recall, when I was a trumpeter, I always preferred to see less accidentals on my sheets! I could comprehend music better, but that's just me.) 

additionally, at b.34-b.49, changing the meter to 6/8 might also help with legibility. Although, the rhythm notation there is perfectly ok as it is, and wouldn't be too difficult, it would just clean-up the score a bit, by removing those triplet brackets! 

Other than my tiny knit-picks, I loved listening through this one, thoroughly. Especially some of those Horn statements, and the Oboe! 😮 Made me wanna learn how to play one. I've always loved em', just always been a brass guy 😉

7 minutes ago, UncleRed99 said:

I haven't seen your other movements to this, at the time of writing this response

This is actually all three movements combined into one score. The movements are labelled with large Roman numerals.

Probably should've made longer pauses between movements in the rendition to make this clear!

Many thanks for your thoughts!

5 minutes ago, Alex Weidmann said:

This is actually all three movements combined into one score. The movements are labelled with large Roman numerals.

Probably should've made longer pauses between movements in the rendition to make this clear!

Many thanks for your thoughts!

 

 

I don't know how I didn't notice that. 😮 🤣

I think it was just because there was no pause between each movement, I didn't even think to check around the score for movement numbers. Not the typical format that I've seen in the past, I'll admit. But in that case, yes, the movements clearly flow together well enough that I didn't even notice they were movements!