Canons again

To solve the instrumentation problem from last time: rather than use an ensemble that can re-group itself for each movement, I re-wrote the piece so that it only calls for 1 grouping. The new instrumentation is 2 flutes, clarinet, piano, 2 violas and cello.

And so I did that, and that took an hour or three, and then I set about actually writing the sucker out. Six hours later, I've got the first movement. This is why I get bored before finishing anything. Using Finale (the desktop music publishing program), putting down 8 pages of simple, straight-forward music [at least as far as notation goes] and making it look the way I want it, with all of the thinking done before-hand, took 6 hours. While the actual creative portion of three times as much music took half that.

And finally this afternoon it dawned on me. I don't have any reason to be doing that. These pretty, professional-looking scores that I'm printing are just going into a file box anyway. I could totally just write these out sloppy-wise on paper and save the formatting/data entry of computer-produced scores for when I have a reason to print it up nice-looking.

Sometimes I'm a genius.