Hey every1!

Here is part of March Caprice that I have been arranging for an orchestra.
any comments or suggestions would be great! sorry I don't have the whole thing in MIDI format because my finale expired - I only have part of it in a midi. But if anyone has finale maybe you would like to convert it? well anyways let me know what u think!

Lightning Gem
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It sounds really bad to go from a direct unison to a dissonance and then back to a direct unison (i.e. beginning of page 2). In m. 17, I think it would sound bad to have all the woodwinds come in just for that one note. The oboe should be able to handle it alone. Personally, I also wish you had left out the piano in m 23-38 and used different instruments to play the notes.

Overall, the chords sometimes just don't seem to know where they are going. Some richer chords, with less direct octave doubling would do the song some good.

I agree with deathraider, and I found some of your rhythms... ie flute really difficult to play (mostly because the way it was written...) But anyways, it is a good arrangement so far. It just needs some tweaking to make it perfect. I also thought that the dynamic level in the beginning was uneven. It went from soft to loud in the first four measures... But anyways good work so far!

~Later!

NEVER put the piccolo lower than the Flute (in concert pitch, I mean). Oboe is way too low at measure 3. Avoid (most of the time) putting the strings in octaves. Piccolo is off-range at measure 19-20 (written pitch, not concert pitch). Meas. 31- Flute in pp is almost impossible to do at that high register. Meas. 55-62; it is usually best not to separate instruments of the same kind in octaves(Trumpet). Trumpet is off range at meas. 70 (or, it's very low; Trumpet 2). I am very confused to how Violin II sometimes gets the higher octaves, compared to Violin I.

Poor orchestration, undoubtedly. Some of the stuff are mentioned above, but I guess my advice for you is to learn a lot more about instrumental voicing and better orchestral contrapuntal writing.

Well you do have to realize that this is my first time arranging for this many instruments - actually this is only my 2nd arrangment ever. and that this is only a rough draft. I haven't done much with the dynamics yet either.
In the final draft I will switch the higher positions to part of the violins and lower to the other half so it will make more sense later. I also don't know alot about some of the instruments I am working with being that I am only a pianist and violinist. So I have alot to learn still I know but I can't get it perfect the first time right?

Thanks for the comments and keep them coming!

So I have alot to learn still I know but I can't get it perfect the first time right?

No one's perfect :p . Just stating some stuff you missed. And a PM is coming...

Thats right! and thank you for trying to help me.