New Song

I'm new to this forum, but I figured I would submit a file and see if any of you like it. I made the file using finale and I think it came out alright, but tell me what you think about it.

-Thanks in advance

Hi! Welcome to the Forum first of all! Now on to your piece :

Erm...first of all, a Requiem is a very solemn and strict musical form that involves a full orchestra, choir, and latin religious text. This is by no means a requiem. Requiems are also sometimes 2 HOURS in length, not 2 minutes. They consist of numerous emotional movements. This consists of one, very short one. If you really want to call this a requiem, you could nickname it something. Perhaps try calling it: Trio for Wind No. 1 ('Winter Requiem').

For starters, I think this piece really did resemble the winter. It painted the picture of blowing winds, and hoarse snow on the night road...kinda nice, but...this piece is extremely random. It goes pretty much nowhere, there is not developmental material, and your harmony is WHACK. The places where you need a nice chord the most, you have some solo oboe line, or something of that nature. The places you do have all the instruments playing it sounds like you punched some different melodies in on all the parts and just put 'em together hoping they would sound good....they didn't . I understand this has no form, which is fine, but i think you could use some development. Perhaps some variation on your introductory motif would be nice?

Good luck!

~Nico

Ditto on the Non-Requiem stuff. I wouldn't say the harmony is whack. It is almost entirely diatonic, mostly aolean in nature, and pretty much always flirting with rest at the note A. Other than that, the peice is unremarkable. Your poor instrumentalists don't get to breathe from measure 6 to 15. You pretty much don't explore anything thematically. Mostly it comes across as randomly weaving melodies. Not hard to do, although you do manage to keep the motion with contrasting rhythms. I'm begginning to sould like a broken record here but - Dynamics, articulations, - none. I could almost take two of my very few posts to this site and cut and past them here and it would be relevant. What you have here are dots on a page. You need to ask yourself, "Just what is it in this peice that I think will inspire my performers and my audience?"

It's EXTREMELY amateurish to call a short piece for winds something like 'Requiem': do stop trying to make yourself greater than you are I'm sure this would sound much better and beautiful with real players, but, as with many beginners, your themes and rhythms tend not to make any sense at all.