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Organization

I have been spending time now organizing all my acoustic music into groups and having the completed volumes bound. It gives me the chance to go back and see how much music (acoustic, again) I have written over the years. I see, for example, that I have written a lot of vocal pieces, from my little set of  Four Haikus (on poetry by Basho) to my recent Fibonacci Songs (poetry by Colin Bell).
I'm not sure how to group everything though. I am working on my pieces for flute now. Should I include pieces that use flute as a soloist only, or should I put in pieces that have flute in the mix (like a piece for flute, clarinet, and piano)? I will probably include it, mainly because if I don't, the trio will end up by itself.

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