Composing again

Today began work on the second section – after adding in the final bit of the first section, the percussion. The idea is that after the initial outburst of everyone I wanted to thin down, fortuitously it turned out that way before a varied shot of the horn motive and then have the piano take the solo role in the second section. When I say solo, I don’t mean in a traditional homophonic sense. Rather, what I envision is as en ensemble of its own tat the others are forced to interact with. The percussion took that in the first section. So now the percussion replaces the piano in the ensemble numbering scheme. Presumably I should then keep the percussion at that number until it is replaced – so in the third section the piano will replace the instrument that takes over the solo part, I’m thinking now that the next solo will go to the piccolo/flute. The sextuplet tempo layer has been eliminated. Tomorrow I will work around the piano solo to build the various trios/quartets for this second section.
My feeling on the material in this section are long arching, crusty lines, some of which develop from the viola/cello material of section 1.