One Day Wonder #152

For 1 horn, 1 trumpet and tuba.

This piece is all about ninths, which accounts for the odd (sometimes grating) sound. I paid no mind to the harmony and it kind of shows. Still, it was fun to write. Once again, I wasn’t giving it much attention. I’ve finally decided that inattention isn’t such a bad thing. Lots of writing and revising tends to make pieces sound contrived and, much of the time, strangely unfocused. I just try to let one note lead to another. It’s a Zen approach that works, but not in all cases. A big ensemble piece needs a little more thought and planning, but once again, not in all cases. As long as I’m not writing the same piece over and over, any approach is the right one as long as the results are good. While not everything has been a stellar effort, most have been surprisingly good, given the amount of time I have to spend on them. Most get done in under four hours, despite those constraints. Only a very few take more than eight hours. If memory serves, I think the most time I've sunk into any of these was for #74, which clocked in a around 10 hours. That's a superior effort, but if I were to spend the same amount of time on, say, this piece, I don't think it would rival it in quality. This tune just didn't demand a lot of time. Although this is for a smaller ensemble and was reasonably easy to write, it’s still pretty solid for what it is.