Color Coding, Once Again

I'm starting the process of transposing my Prelude by first assigning each voice to the notes (dividing up the music into the five parts) and color coding it for each specific horn part. This is already proving slightly more difficult than the Fugue as there is more decision making to be done in "who gets what" and more room for error. This may later require a little more editing and checking to make sure I have voicing and range correct to suit each player. 

Color Coding: 

Red= Horn 1

Orange= Horn 2

Green= Horn 3

Blue= Horn 4

Purple= Horn 5 

New Piece

Ironically done out of order, I have selected the prelude to the Fugue to work on as my next piece. The name of it is in Russian, so we'll just call it the Prelude for now. It was also written by Shostakovich and has a different structure from the Fugue: instead of mainly four part harmonies the chords have five notes each, meaning I will have to add one more horn player to make it a quintet. The Prelude has a faster tempo than the Fugue and is also shorter in length (two pages instead of four).

Fugue Completed!

Happy to announce I have completed the Shostakovich Fugue! Starting next time I see my horn instructor, we will begin sight-reading the parts to find errors and make adjustments before my friends and I play/record it for the class. My next step is to begin proofing it with my project assistant so my instructor doesn't have to do all the work in our next lesson, and to select a new piece to work on (preferably one with only four voices like this one). I also need to figure out how to print this off of Muse Score as it keeps adding a billion extra lines of rest even after I placed a double bar line at the end... 

^The lines leading up to the ending of the Fugue 

Completing the Part Transposition

     Before loading all of the notes into Muse Score, I had to transpose all of the written piano notes into french horn pitches to be copied accordingly. I have finished all of the "translating" (from piano to french horn) and have written in all of the note names above the staff on my piano sheet music to make it easier for me to copy into Muse Score. Thus far I have all of the voices (Soprano, Alto, Tenor) copied into my Muse Score quartet, except for the very last page of the Bass, which will complete the quartet once these notes have been transferred into Muse Score.

^ The completed last page