finito

my chamber piece for piano, vibes, and 2 vlns is complete. I'm happy with how the final section turned out, it really unified the material and made it seem like a functional piece of music as opposed to before, when it just resembled a bunch of related-ideas placed together. There is an introduction with a slower tempo that accelerates into the first main section, and I used that intro material to develop in the climax of the piece. It has melodic/rhythmic fragments from the slow intro, but since it remains in the faster tempo, it feels closely related to the other material as well. I also gave it more of a pushing-forward feel with the harmonic decisions I made, and so the material flows quite nicely for a while - this is a nice contrast from the unpredictable and sporadic nature of the previous sections. After this more sonorous and fluent section, a suprise transition back to some staccato figures from before build into the final chord, which (as per usual) has a comedic and insincere effect... this suits the piece, and I do enjoy music that makes people (me) laugh, but someday I would like to write something that is a little more "serious"....

final project almost there

some technical suggestions last week helped me tidy up my piece a bit.. putting vln 2 below vln 1, playing around with different 8ves as opposed to unisons between vibes and piano, etc. I am also aware that I'm moving around a few different key centres, but I don't have a specific plan on where/when I'm doing so. I've been throwing in some wonky variations of V-I and moving a lot of motives up or down by whole-tones, but it's mostly just been spur of the moment decisions. Since I still have a couple of minutes to go, it would be good to graph out the key centres and see where it would make sense to go next.

I was thinking of having some sort of rondo form, but since my material is sporadic and all over the place and rondo form has specific key areas, I better not limit myself to that... the only rondo element is a recurring A section, so I guess you could say my piece has a refrain. As of now there is intro-A-B-A'. I think for the next section I'll try to develop the intro material and then go back to A one final time... I think there's enough material present now that I just need to develop it rather than come up with new ideas.