Composition Reflections

Composition Reflections

Comparing my two compositions, I would definitely say that doing the scenario composition was a lot easier. This is because having a particular scene helped me to create the mood, the basic storyline and other factors: A sleeping person probably will snore; Miss Huang will come wake him up etc, whereas, for the whole-tone composition, I had to create my own theme, with no guidelines. Sometimes people just run out of ideas…The fact that the middle register couldn’t be used and that it was in whole tone made also made it harder. But I learnt that sometimes, having a rubrics helps in many ways. For example, it helps to justify parts of the piece (why did you use a whole tone scale? Because I had to).
Many times I also had to double-check some other works to see if my performance directions were notated correctly (in most cases they were wrong).

I also didn’t put a lot of technical elements into my compositions as I knew that I wouldn’t be able to play my own work if it were too hard. Luckily there’s Sibelius.
And in all my reflections I never fail to mention that most of my problems are caused by my tendency to procrastinate and leave things to the last moment, so my work always is rushed.


Regarding writing my own music for everyone else to comment on, I think that it is quite cool to finally create something, rather than listening to pieces or learning them. Granted, it is nerve-wrecking to play it in front of everyone else (I think everyone probably feels that way), having so many pairs of eyes stare at you, and to have them be critical about it, but I think that it is the best way to learn something. Like, sometimes you realize that something you put there to create a particular effect ended up making everyone feel the opposite way or something. So yea, it helps. =D

Also, I don’t know how to end off this reflection properly, so, yes, it is indeed interesting to hear everyone’s different take on the same scenario.


p.s. i'm submitting this in early because i'll be in camp from 16th to 21th of December
also, do let me know if there's anything majorly wrong with my work (my theory is very rusty), or if i have to re-do anything.

tata^^