The Importance of form

After presenting my piece on tuesday, I feel like I felt the same way about my piece as some of my class mates. I have some good ideas, but they dont seem to go anywhere.
Musical form to me, in the past little while, seems to be growing hugley in importance to me. I never considered it much before, but as I listen to music, and compose my own I am beginning to realize how big of a difference the form can make. I really like my ideas, and I think that they are good ideas...but how long I am able to repeat those ideas and the way i repeat them I beleive will either make or break my compositions.
The good thing is that I trust myself to know when an idea gets boring, and that I have the creativity to alter, or introduce some change to keep the listener engaged.

Piano Piece 1

For my first piano piece I divided each octave into major seconds and minor thirds. This was the basis for the opening section.

Only having the introductory bit ready for tuesday wasn't ideal, but it still was good for another thing. Where I haven't started any development myself of this material, I was able to get some outside input of ideas I may not have had. WHich is cool because if I've already had some of the ideas developed I wouldnt have had the oppertunity to hear people's ideas.

One of the main ideas which Dr. Ross suggestedd that I drew from was to have the second part (the eighth note chords) be the bulk of the development and have the introduction theme interupt this development all the time...