Humoresque

So a funny thing happened this week. As of right now, I have about 20 measures of music composed for both Violin I and Violin II. Using Musescore, I can play it back and it'll synthesize the sounds, but that doesn't give a representation of the feeling and the difficulty level of the music, only the notes and the rhythm. During orchestra one day, Richard and I took to one of the practice rooms and played what I had and I realized that some of the parts I had written were maybe just a little too hard and awkward to play. Okay maybe more than a little. So I realized that this was probably due to my use of virtual piano and vocal recordings to compose most of this, and not an actual violin itself. I'll have to take this more into consideration from now on, because the playability of a piece is pretty important. I'm not saying that I'm going to write very simple and easy music, just that I should consider things like fingerings (which finger to use to play a certain note) and bowings more when writing.

It has also been a pretty hard to make alterations on a certain theme or melody that I've already composed. Initially I thought this part would be pretty simple. I already had the base, I just needed to make a variation of it. But it's surprisingly difficult (for me at least) to think of something that's different yet the same.

Looking Ahead:
- I'm bringing what I have so far to my mentor this week and I'm hoping he will critique what's there so far and maybe give me some insight on how to move forward from here.
- There's nothing to do but keep pressing on. I'm going to try to start composing more at home with my violin than just during class with other tools. That should give me a better feel for what's plausible and what's not.
- I'm going to try to find a direction for my piece. Up until now, I think I have been composing just to compose, with no real emotion that I want to convey through this music. I've treated things so far as  a project or an assignment, to be done merely to be done. So now I want a different purpose and direction.