three-legged dance - trio score

EDIT: oh lol i exported the wrong version, this is definitely the transposed score and not the score in C.



i completed the 2min comp demonstrating motivic development for my HSC students whooo (thank u andrew for giving me notational software advice - i had to type it all back up again but at least now i can save it and export to pdf for around 28 more days!)
the sibelius audio is here: https://soundcloud.com/greytonguelizzed/three-legged-dance


i just spent two hours annotating it to show every compositional decision i made (i even had to make up reasons for the ones that were subconsciously decided) because a few of the students have expressed their struggle at knowing and choosing what to do with their ideas. there are a total of 119 notes omg. (to be fair, around 20 of them are just squiggles.) and at least 3 puns. sorry kids.


nb: i haven't written a full piece in this 'style' in years. by style i mean... without any unconventional notation or extended techniques or improvised bits or minimalist-adjacent repetition schemes. i thought i had lost the ability to write this kind of thing but that's probably an irrational thought. part of me has just been disillusioned to think that music can't be interesting without it being extremely weird / untraditional, but another part knows way, way better than that. also what even is tradition anymore?