I decided to start commiting a good amount of time into studying orchestration and it's relation to form. Creating an easily distinguishable form for a piece through parameters such as texture, range, orchestration and many others has always been a struggle of mine when composing. Hopefully this score studying will be fruitful. Right now I am starting with two excellent orchestrators: Rimsky-Korsakov and Ravel. I started with the second movement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherezade last night. I heard the piece on the radio while back and fell in love with it. Luckily, my school's library had a piano reduction of the score for me to use as reference as I try to aurally identify Rimsky-Korsakov's brilliantly colorful orchestration. I'm also using this same approach with Ravel's famous orchestration of Pictures at an Exhibition although for some reason I'm a little less enthusiastic about it.
Also, I'm entering a string quartet I wrote into a competition. It's only my second competition to enter and I'm kind of nervous. I really hate advertising for myself and my music but that is often unavoidable when entering competitions. I guess I'll just have to get more comfortable with the concept.
Until next time...
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