Every now and again, I like to peruse some of the old music that I wrote in high school and still have saved on my computer. The other night I was doing just this and stumbled across a piece I wrote entitled ‘Flute Metamorphosis’. It was originally intended to be a multi-movement work, and I even started a piece called ‘Clarinet Metamorphosis’ that never went anywhere lol In any case, I’d just like to point out that my fascination with creating sets of pieces (i.e. Figments) is nothing that is new to me. Personally I think it stems from all the fantasy series I read, but whatever. Also I’d like to point out the similarity between ‘Flute Metamorphosis’ and “Morphosis” for solo violin and piano.
I promise you that relation is not a coincidence lol
Moving on though, FM was written for Solo Flute, piano, and string orchestra and composed during my freshman year of high school. This was a whole two and half years before I took my first theory course, and really shows that I’ve always had an obsession with virtuosity (and the flute lol) even though I clearly had no idea how to write for strings hahah. In any case, the piece is pretty straightforward (freshman in high school) and isn’t programmatic or anything, so you may be asking why I decided to make a whole blog entry about it.
Well first of all, I’m procrastinating on doing a homework assignment that, at this point, I’m pretty sure I’m just gonna end up doing tomorrow morning. Secondly, I’m considering reviving it. I feel that the piece has a lot of interesting ideas and I’m curious to know if there’s a way to salvage what’s there while also implementing what I’ve learned in the past…. six years.
In order to make the piece more…. reasonable, I’m thinking of changing the instrumentation to Solo Flute, Piano, and string quartet, and kinda starting from scratch in a sense. What I mean by that, is rather than opening the old score’s sibelius file, and opening a new and doing a lot of copying and pasting, just kinda taking what sounds of it I have in my head and trying to reconstruct it with a new frame of mind. So yeah, I realize that between this, possibly creating a whole multi-movement 12-tone piece for clarinet trio, and Figments: The Symphony, I’ve got a lot going on. (Not to mention that this summer I wanna write something for clarinet choir). But I feel that the three pieces are so different in terms of instrumentation and content that it shouldn’t be TOO overwhelming.
I uploaded a recording to Sound Cloud (after paying for that special membership thing you’d best be certain I’m gonnna start using that thing) for your listening enjoyment. To give you an idea what 14-year-old Dorian’s music sounded like. You’ll notice that it starts at a weird place, and that’s cause I started the recording AFTER the cadenza and opening section which I wrote Junior Year after nationals but never really liked lol
