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I was aiming more for what I thought was good (which I guess could count as Uconventionality) I realize there are a few problems with it, I even said so in the starting post. One thing I am trying to do is make my own thing in music, you know, my personal distinct sound.
let me know if that counts as being unconvential
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Yes. It does. My best advice (which is perhaps very obvious, but I'll give it anyway) is not to worry about theoretical correctitude and formal concerns. There are some people who might give you crap about a missing development or something like that, but you can safely ignore it. If you have learned that casting a piece in a certain form, or using a certain procedure could make your piece better, there's no need to hesitate. But if you find yourself tempted to write a sonata just because it's a sonata, or because that's what composers are supposed to do, you might find your creative impulse is obscured or crushed. This is what happens to me, often. I find some compositions falling into a sort of loose, rondo-ish outline, but I've never done it intentionally. I once tried to write a sonata, because I thought it would make me sound really cool. Sonata No. 1! Yes! But I found that the farther I progressed, the more the piece sounded like half-baked Beethoven or lethargic Chopin imitations. Having in mind a form used by the geniuses of the Baroque through the modern can be more of an impediment to originality than anything else...
In short, don't listen to anyone who tries to make your music fit their expectations. It's yours.