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    • PeterthePapercomPoser
      Exercise in Orchestration: Content

      By PeterthePapercomPoser · Posted

      Hey again @Some Guy That writes Music, I really like this piece!  I am listening for the first two times casually without the score and it is very touching and true to the emotion you prescribed yourself to emulate!  This emotion wheel is a very curious and useful approach towards composition, especially if one wants to write incidental music or music for media.  Did you choose to first emulate the "Pleased" emotion followed by "Satisfied"? Technically speaking you've once again managed to write the entirety of your piece in the sole key of A major without any transition or modulation.  Just one sole section of exposition without any development.  That's fine and it surely suits your purpose well since you managed to write a very content-sounding piece!  But from a purely technical viewpoint there is a lack of theme and many of the figurations could be considered to be just "noodling" in the key of A major.  In a happy-go-lucky way you wander up and down the A major scale in certain learned way and achieve a very happy sounding feel. As for future challenges - I'd be stoked to hear you write a piece representing "Sadness" - both "Depressed" and "Sorrow" seem good candidates. Overall a very enjoyable piece!  Thanks for sharing.
    • pateceramics
      Prelude No. 1

      By pateceramics · Posted

      I have no fault with the music, but the white on black YouTube score is pretty hard to read.  It might be worth adding a more standard pdf of the music here so people can give you more specific feedback. 🙂. Nice job!
    • PeterthePapercomPoser
      Remember this is now

      By PeterthePapercomPoser · Posted

      Hello again @Some Guy That writes Music! This seems to be in the same keys as that other orchestral piece of yours that I recently reviewed.  You seem to have a strong preference for the keys of C major/A minor and Ab major/F minor (the latter is also among my favorite tonalities).  But you seem to lack or avoid the potential of transition and modulation in your music.  Maybe this is a characteristic of some choral music?  But then again, Wagner loved to write choir pieces and he was the "master of transition". Besides having very repetitive lyrics, the piece does stay in each of its tonalities for a long time without any change or accidentals and imo it cries out for some chromaticism!  But the piece does achieve a kind of hypnotic effect with some variation and a very melancholy pathos.  Thanks for sharing!
    • MJFOBOE
      New Piano Work -Free and Easy

      By MJFOBOE · Posted

      Hi all, Here's my new piano composition "Free and Easy". A short waltz like melody .... Hope you enjoy the work. All comments always welcome. Mark  
    • MJFOBOE
      Piano sketch for orchestral work. (WIP)

      By MJFOBOE · Posted

      Maybe flutes can play the flurry of notes .... I really like the beginning section "very 20th century Russian" the latter part reminds me of Korngold.  I think you have lots of ideas to pull from here.  Go for it! Mark
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