In order to have a completely unbroken chunk of time, I decided to stay up all night composing. This accomplished two things:
1. A great deal of work
2. Showing me why I don't do this more often.
But after all that, I have a good portion of the piece orchestrated (although the orchestrated parts need polishing and the nonpitched percussion parts need to be…written), and here's this morning's rendering.
SN-Semper Reformanda 2/10/10 by Kyle Vanderburg
After presenting the version of SN-SR as seen in the last post (which has been updated to the new audio.kylevanderburg.net/bandcamp embedding system) to a composition lesson, where it was modified, shortened (by content), lengthened (by time), and Saturday I began the daunting task of orchestration. Here are the latest versions:
SN-Semper Reformanda 2/6/10 by Kyle Vanderburg
2/6/10 version
SN-Semper Reformanda 2/8/10 by Kyle Vanderburg
2/8/10 version
4 days until (my) deadline! Also, I'm trying out various titles. If you have any ideas, throw them my way!
Today's canceled classes freed up some good composing time, which allowed me to finally put together what will likely be the melodic framework.
I remember, about a year ago, discussing deadlines with my undergraduate advisor, Carlyle Sharpe. Or more accurately, we were discussing the composer's ability to miss deadlines.
I can't imagine why I would bring that store up now.
HOWEVER, despite the hiatus on this project, I am now working on it full-time. While I don't have anything to show tonight, I can say that at this point it will be roughly seven minutes long, which is around 300 bars at quarter=166. I will have the melody/basic shape finished early this week, and will be posting a Scorch file as soon as I'm ready to share.
If everything goes according to plan, next weekend will be spent writing a harmonic language for the work, and the next few weeks will be spent orchestrating.
Twenty days until deadline.