I just thought I would add a little activity to this site by posting my latest rendering of an older work, my first (and so far only) string quartet, which I began as a student at Michigan in 1975 and finished, except for minor revisions, in 2020. It's a dissonant, rather Bergian work that drifts in and out of a kind of free atonality, though to my ears there are passing references to key centers everywhere, especially in the Tippett-like 3rd subject and in the newer material (roughly the second half) that was written with the benefit of notation software. It begins and ends in A minor, but very little of the piece is actually in that key, or even in any key. Toward the end the "Tippett" theme is, however, transformed into a lilting, and very diatonic, duet for the violins against a pizzicato accompaniment.
There are no changes to the actual notes since I last posted this work here, but numerous changes to phrasing, articulation, dynamics, and the lengths of fermatas and other pauses as I ported the score from Sibelius to Dorico earlier this month. This is basically the same rendering that I posted recently on a different site (GMG), except for shortening the caesura at letter K from 275% to 200%, which clips off a little less than a second from the rendering.
The score has not been proofread thoroughly; there may still be collisions and extraneous rests left over from Sibelius - the score was exported first to XML and then read by Dorico, which apparently doesn't do any cleanup during the import process - if my impression is correct, you have to edit a measure directly before it will consolidate rests there.
Comments are welcome.
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