The score of ‘The Merry-Go-Round of Life’ also became available to purchase from here (Japanese). This piece is asked to arrange by a member of Melodica club to include in the ensemble’s repertoire. I arranged it rather polyphonically as well as Carrying You, to make it idiomatically more effective and enjoyable for all the players. Three parts seem to work very good for melodica ensemble, when the register of the instrument is quite limited and the timbre is very sharp and prominent—that can crush in their overtones making a dissonance, whilst three is the minimum number that still can keep “triadic structure”.
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Love how you arranged ‘The Merry-Go-Round of Life’ for three melodicas, makes it sound way fuller than I expected. The polyphonic approach really works with the sharp timbre, each part stands out without clashing. Gonna check out more of your scores soon, and btw found some random stuff on kolkata ff while browsing, might be useful for others too.
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