Concerto for Harp and Koto.

I do of course want to improve...there is no way that I could improve without the remarks that have been stated.

Its hard to explain but I was both writing for my own taste and yet I wanted it critiqued, but I guess those 2 don't really go hand in hand.

In the future I do really want to write serious music, just at the time I wasn't really that interested in creating a strict piece so to speak, and as said, it was an experiment. BUT I do understand what DOFTS has said, it doens't justify sloppy habits.

Having said that, if anyone has any tips or places I can go, books I can read etc...to improve my orchestration and general music composition, please please please let me know or send a message or something

cheers,
Lex

*cough*orchestration masterclass*cough*

cheers,
I figured the term ''masterclass'' referred to already good composers (unlike myself)
I shall have a looksy

After having listened to this piece and looked at the score i can find nothing particularly wrong with either the orchestration or the handling of the material. For a slow middle movement it is fine- generally atmospheric in its user of the pentatonic scale. Although it does seem a bit monothematic I think this is partly the character of koto music and pentatonic music in general and as the movement only lasts for 3 1/2 minutes it probably recognises its own limitation. There are a few unusual things in the use of instruments but you don't learn if you don't try.

Further to the above post, after having read some of the other comments about this piece, I am reminded by many of them of the saying about empty vessels. I only added this because i am sure Mr Lex is too polite to do so.

Great piece,i enjoy myself.great ambience music

Originally Posted by designbox91

Great piece,i enjoy myself.great ambience music

Thank you, I'm glad you liked it

please don be disheartened, to me it sounds harmonically fluent and developed. personally i tend to enjoy a music if it sounds nice, regardless of its flaws in presentation. being an amateur myself i cannot promptly detect such flaws and therefore do not feel any repulsion or the need to express any unhelpful discontent just to assert superiority when i come across them.
in my opinion it has a simplistic but solid and inspired theme which lent well to the developments like variations and counterpoints, unlike some of the music here which only aim at a stylistic goal. (i don mean to judge the pieces with improvisation all over the place just to score some anachronism)
it has a calm and patient quality but i think it is too musical and creative to be ambience music. (not to disparage that genre)

Thank you, your words mean alot to me.
I do know that what some of the people on here have said to be true. And I am working on it. But however foolish it may be, I still like it the way that it is. I'm happy you see it the way I do...and music in in general for that matter