Last Friday I presented my second draft of the 1st movement. It went over much, MUCH, better than the first. I was able to convey one character throughout and effectively achieve what my goal was. I'm currently still in the process of writing the second movement. I've discovered that what I had originally thought of the 2nd is just not going to work with my idea, which is causing me to get stuck in a compositional ditch. I've dug my way out though! While working out some awesome-o counterpoint for my assignment for the other class I was able to doodle out a main idea for the 2nd! HUZZAH! If it weren't for theory, counterpoint and conducting taking up my time now (and those meddling kids) I'd be working it out right now, but alas, too much to get done in one night.

So last Friday I presented my first draft of the 1st movement of the character piece. I had too many different sections and needed focus on creating a single idea and character.
I began to think of a stronger structure and organization of the entire piece to be able be more specific. So with some ideas, I began to re-create and redo the first movement. I have a good idea for the opening, and a clear middle/end, but I'm still wondering how to connect the two. Hopefully inspiration will come hastily! I've had a chord progression and rhythmic figure for my second movement for a while now, so that should come together nicely.

Number 1

Today I changed around my chords and added some completely new ones. I took into mind some of the suggestions and comments from class; mostly my chords just sounding dissonant all the time and no relief from the tension. So I've made some nice sounding ones and such. Getting underway on the character pieces now and finalizing some ideas.