I'm curious to see what sort of music is being written by everyone else.. what are your current projects??

I am trying to add finishing touvhes to a piece for string quartet and soprano; no text, just vocalisations. Apart from that I am arranging stuff for the adult choir for next summer's show.

I have just finished a quartet (with Vn, Va, Vc) for a flautist friend who owns alto and bass flutes in addition to the usual flute and piccolo, so each of these is used in different sections.

Im going to attempt to write a sonatina sometime soon.

Some months ago I started work on Mozart's 2nd clarinet concerto (as he was foolish enough to write only one). It is tougher than I expected. Despite reading Chuang C Chang's expose of the system by which Mozart composed I still have not managed to create the authentic Mozart sound.

Meanwhile I am working on Renaissance-style counterpoint.

have you read Rosen's Classical Style book?

Hello

This is a scherzo or dance movement I wrote for a cello ensemble. No pretense that it's profound but I hope it's cheerful. A little Caribbean except for the extra beats.

Runs for just on 2 minutes.

http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m...979244&q=hi

Hope you like it.

Really, .

How does Renaissance-style counterpoint differ from Baroque? Is it less formal?

1. Extensive use of modes - by the baroque the Major-Minor system dominated
2. Stricter in terms of what is considered correct, and what is considered incorrect or poor taste

A violin concerto. A stage setting of Aesop's Fables. Various songs for the choir I conduct....the list goes on...and on...and on!

to the forums!

Sounds very ambitious! There must be 600 plus fables, how many did you cover?

I recently finished a 3 movement suite for soprano sax and piano in memory of my childhood best friend who died at the age of 10.

It may be getting its first 'proper' performance later this month in a concert.

I've also just started a piece for alto sax and piano, and it seems to feature a cadenza....we'll see what happens!

Lots of other ideas forming for new pieces, and wanting to explore different styles etc. I find composing so rewarding, and am my most content when i'm doing it. I also find that my best ones seem to get done very quickly! Sometimes it all rushes out in under 20 minutes and I have to try and get it down before its gone!

Keep up the good work everyone, the world needs more original music!

I'm writing a prelude and fugue for Organ
a SATB choir carol for christmas and I'm just wating to hear from a radio station to see if they will broadcast it.

and I might start work on my Opera soon

Ben again.

I just wrote, sung, played, sequenced and recorded "The Most Important":

The Most Important

I just completed the the first draft of a short (1.30) middle movement of a string quartet. It is about total dejection, misery, and abject despair, but ends on some uplifting chords which will lead into the final movement where I hope to create a feeling of mature acceptance and understanding of the vicissitudes of life. [The first movement was about youthful naivety and simple joy]

Also I am working on a simple fugue to illustrate the conventional structure and what is involved in making one.

Still stalled on Mozart's Second Clarinet concerto. However much I try to be Mozartean my melodies come out like a hybrid of Herbie Hancock, Shostakovich, and Pierre Boulez.

Just wrote a piece for a String quartet and a clarsach. However, I had to adjust it a little because the group I play with doesn't have 2 violins and a viola but instead has 3 violins. This meant adjusting the melody line a little but after listening to the recording, I don't really think it made too much of a difference.
This piece means quite a lot to me so after a lot of deliberation, I decided to call it Solas. It's a beautiful place on the Island of North Uist where I first heard the clarsach being played. I fell in love with the instrument and the piece is a celebration of the beauty of the clarsach.
(How mushy is that?!) It is definitely no masterpiece but it's sincere and honest so I'm quite pleased. Doesn't "project" well, much better when played in more intimate venues.

Discovered I really enjoy playing with the group as we are all good friends so I think I'll write more pieces I can play with friends. Makes performing them more fun and I think if you know the people you're playing with then there's a better connection. This, I beleive, leads to a more balanced sound and, if playing live, more audience enjoyment.

Would love to write some music for a choir but lyrics are not my strong point. Perhaps I should collaborate with my poet friend. Or I might do something for a flute choir but as I live in rural Scotland finding an alto or a bass flute player could prove difficult.

All the poets who died before 1939 are now out of copyright in the UK (as of about 50 minutes ago), except for those of their works that were unpublished when they died. Don't spend too much time looking for very good poetry, the better it is the more difficult it is to set.

Wow everyone here sounds like really good composers. What inspires you to compose or write a piece of music?
Does anyone here write film music? I would absolutely love to get into composing for film and TV, anyone have any advice on how to go about it?
Thanks PSL

Usually a special occasion or meeting someone with an interesting instrument. In the last three and a bit years, five pieces: two birthdays, two pieces I was asked to write for a special children's day that my orchestra was putting on, and finding out that a flautist I know owns piccolo, flute, alto flute and bass flute.