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    • Thank you! I used the default Musescore and the Jeux de orgues soundfonts as i don't know how to work with VSTs (And even if i knew VSTs dedicated to early music are scarse).
    • It's actually not that difficult for me to do the modulation since when I was sketching, my original plan was to just modulate to another key far from C and not to any specific one. Furthermore, it's kinda chromatic too. I just moved a half step up when it reaches B flat and boom, B major, then you V-I that thing. I suppose the smooth voice leading and the orchestration help as well. Dude thanks so much for the appreciation and award!!! I'm so sorry it took me more than a week to response, like I've been wanting to response but I kept getting sidetracked. Again, really appreciate it!! Means a lot!!!!!!
    • Heh thought you'd notice! I really want to listen to you guys' pieces since you and @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu has been commenting constantly on my pieces and others, and I've only listened to a handful of you guys'. I've honestly been avoiding listening to this piece cus I had thought that there's a lot that I could change and all that. For example, I'd probably tone down the flute's high notes since it's so frequent and a reply here has pointed out that too. But honestly, it ain't that bad lmao. And hey, I wouldn't mind a concerto arrangement, but I think this chamber instrumentation suits it more. You're exactly right. And that's exactly why some of my older scores are just atrocious with pitch spelling, cus I was a dummy and had not figured how they worked yet, even here too in some places! It is one of the reason why I want to revise some of my older pieces. me when sleigh bells  It's "Carol of the Bells." The first theme is loosely based on it, the sequence starting from b.122 has the rhythm, and the actual quote appears in b.193 Thank you for all the kind words!
    • How does this actually work in the field? I’ve had/seen multiple arrangers say that as long as you’re not selling commercial recordings of the music, big companies won’t bat an eye. My HS Band Director arranged songs for MSU that were aired in National Television, and I assume many music students there do so. I haven’t heard anyone directly say that selling arrangements without copyright permission was treated as fine, but how would composers make nearly any money after hours of skilled labor when up to 50% can be claimed by the copyright holder, and up to 50% can be claimed by JW Pepper?   Any referrals to actual MB Arrangers would be much appreciated, and thanks in advance:)
    • Hey @ferrum.wav!  Since I saw that you recently listened to some of my old works I decided to dig into some of yours! I don't know how I missed this one!  Great work!  It's very easy to listen to and relax which is what I did the 1st time through.  The 2nd time through I listened with the score.  Very nicely crafted piece of music which seems like it could be a really great candidate for an orchestration!  It would be great to hear this as a Flute concerto! Reading about your process reminded me of when I used to compose into my DAW back in the day (at the time I was using Cakewalk Home Studio 2002).  It had the option of using piano roll, but also a really basic notation option which only gave you one 12-note set of enharmonics you could use for each key you chose, so I quickly had to get used to spelling pitches using the wrong enharmonics and the whole annoying process of fussing over correct pitch spelling just kind of went away which is what I suspect you like so much about writing in the piano roll.  Another thing you talked about was how you could really meticulously control the velocities of all the notes being played by the piano and the tempo changes.  I also feel like I used to have more control when I wrote into my DAW/sequencer in that regard, but I've learned to make use of Musescore MS Basic piano soundfont which takes into account velocity offsets if I want to include them.  Musescore also allows me to change the tempo as meticulously as I want but I haven't really had to go in and fuss about with that very much given that Musescore has an automatic accel. or rit. which works from an initial tempo to a destination tempo pretty well. I think it does sound gentle and cold like a snowy afternoon.  It avoids some much more easily made Christmas connotations/cliches.  I don't know what Christmas Carol you quote here though, at least I didn't notice it.  Thanks for sharing!
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