Round six. Fight!

So I finally complete my piece. It felt like it took FOREVER to do.

It's 16 pages and 6 minutes long! To be honest it felt like this one piece took as much time as everything I did last year combined! 

Putting the X's in the narrator part took forever, as did lining up the text in the actual parts.

... but it's over now.

I'm kind of excited to see how it turns out. I am not sure if I'm going to narrate it or not yet.

I would kind of like a male voice, but we'll see what happens. 

I think I might do it myself because I know exactly what I want.

As for the next project I'm thinking about a string quartet or a string quartet with piano (if allowed.)

NO TEXT. :)

I'm really glad some people are thinking about writing for concert band because I would love to hear/see the process. I just don't think I am ready for such a project myself in such a short amount of time!

Good luck for everyone next week!

Round five. Fight!

I'm really starting to get stressed about finishing my piece.

I know what I want to do but I don't know if I'll have enough time!

I'm going to try to get a copy of the score to the performers tomorrow. 

This week I got some feedback from Dr. Staniland  

He seemed to really enjoy my piece. He encouraged me to change my narration to Sprechstimme.

I'm going to use that as my alleatoric element as well.

:)

Round four. Fight!

Last class I got a lot of feedback on my piece.

-I had thought of creating better transitions between the sections and it was said that I should.

I am not sure how I'm going to go about doing that but I'm sure something will come.

-I think I'm going to add a narration to the piece. It will tie everything together and I think it will be new and interesting. I might add pictures as a background thing to view as the piece is played.

-Writing more traditional parts for the cello and violin and adding some cello notes in the marimba passage and vice versa.

I spose I should get on all of that.

I am going to try to finish it as soon as possible so my players can get the parts.

:)