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Author: shadow1
Date: 2014-07-25 22:10
to see if i could get into a music school, i want to send in my composition
http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/6c90ffa33042da3c0c5c813b7e0d72c4e77ee6c1
although i can't pursue music at the moment, i did work hard on this and it is my AP theory final. let me know what you think and if something is better changed. thanks.
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Author: shadow1
Date: 2014-07-25 22:14
btw i scored for an eefer but only bc my Bb was in the shop and i had to perform it in class. anyway i decided to keep it.
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Author: johng ★2017
Date: 2014-07-26 02:27
Sam - you will get more comments if you use < before the link and > after the link so it will be clickable here.
http://www.noteflight.com/scores/view/6c90ffa33042da3c0c5c813b7e0d72c4e77ee6c1
Not a bad job, Sam. You had some decent voice leading and made good use of common chords. I was amused by the "bright" notation for the Eb clarinet since that is pretty much what you get if you are using an Eb soprano. Your piece could use more working out of your ideas, making it longer and more interesting to listen to, but over all I think you created something many 1st year college students taking music theory would not be able to do right away. Keep at it.
John Gibson, Founder of JB Linear Music, www.music4woodwinds.com
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Author: clarinetist04
Date: 2014-07-26 22:23
It's good, but for a serious college composition major it's too simple, even for someone starting a degree. When I was a composition student not too long ago, it was not uncommon for incoming students to have written orchestral works and fairly complex chamber music. But a piece does not need to be complex or long to be musically sophisticated. If you want to pursue composition in school at the college level you need to write, write, write, write. Good composing comes from writing music. I've found that when I sit down to work on a piece of music, if I haven't been listening and writing music I have a harder time with it.
There are a few other people who compose music on here. Maybe they will post some thoughts as well.
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Author: nbclarinet
Date: 2014-07-27 05:16
I think you're off to a very good start. I agree with the above poster that you had some nice voice leading. Based off of the composition majors at my school, I don't think its too far from the mark. My critiques would be to take a look at some of the runs in the clarinet part. Some of them felt like they were just outlining the chords rather than really saying something musically. I also think you should expand upon what you already have. Add more of a contrasting section, a tempo change, a new theme, something that makes the piece go somewhere (and then maybe return at the end?). Keep going with this!
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Author: brycon
Date: 2014-07-28 01:35
Kudos on finishing your project piece (and for sharing it).
In general (generalities are the best we can do), variety is important--variety of rhythm, texture, melodic contour, tonal centers, etc. It's nice that you begin with the piano introduction; it gives you textural variety. The harmonic and rhythmic material, however, is rather similar throughout: harmonies are all Eb major, rhythms are all duple, hypermetric strong beats are on the downbeat of every measure, and so forth.
You might want to go through and check for parallel perfect intervals and incorrect chordal doublings (they are numerous). Just in the piano introduction, for example, you have parallel octaves in the first measure beat 3 and 4, again in measure three going into four (you should also have the Eb doubled in this measure rather than the G), as well as in the 8th notes at measure five, and so forth.
I don't think expanding the instrumentation or the length of the piece is as important as polishing what you have. Of course, your mileage may vary.
Post Edited (2014-07-28 01:53)
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Author: rgames
Date: 2014-07-28 02:19
Here's my recommendation: think of this piece as a start with some ideas, not a finished piece. Go take a look at several of the shorter Mozart and Beethoven piano works then go back to this piece and try to do what they do, especially with form and key/modulation.
Odds are you'll extract a few good nuggets from what you have (and erase the rest - "Destroy your Darlings") and mold it into a longer, more elegant piece of music.
rgames
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