I find this most interesting especially after my recent segue into the Muzoracle.  There is also a way of casting the Muzoracle cards alongside with the traditional Tarot cards.  I am not at all familiar with the Tarot however so I don't know if I'll ever learn that. This piece to me is a typical one for you - full of sounds of intrigue, suspense and unease.  I don't know if your goal was to channel the emotion of love through the music because I don't think this does that at all.  It does sound kind of coquettish, like a beautiful woman who doesn't want to be caught.  But I listened casually, without looking at the score so of course take that with a grain of salt.  Of course, as always, your music seems to proceed according to the rules of its own logic and it does so in an interesting way that sustains my interest throughout.  So good job with that!  Thanks for sharing.

Hi @veps! I don't know why you wouldn't want to compose in this style - it is quite bold, modern and thematic/motivic to top it off!  It is always harmonically and rhythmically fresh.  Maybe you feel stupefied by how good it is and you don't know if you could finish it?  Sometimes that has happened to me where I've composed a piece where the concept of the piece was too ambitious for my ability and so I doubted that I would ever be able to finish it.  But now that I've changed the way I write I am going back and finishing all those old pieces.  Of course, this is all just speculation - but I greatly enjoyed this short little beginning and I thought it proceeded quite lucidly and logically.  Thanks for sharing!

Hi @Awsumerguy! Listening casually without following along with the score it sounds like quite a charming piece!  Although I feel like the melody sometimes is a bit unadventurous, lacking in cadential points lending to an impression of being a little lacking in direction (because it seems to wander up and down and clings too closely to the tonic chord for long periods of time and repeating itself over and over in essence creating a piece without any sections but consisting of a long exposition of the main theme over and over and with some key changes).  Like I said though - it is a charming idea which I enjoyed listening to.  Thanks for sharing!

Hello @Some Guy That writes Music! I listened casually and followed along with the score for the first couple of minutes and the thing that jumped out at me was that you stay diatonic to C major for a huge portion of the beginning before then changing the key signature to Ab major.  I'm sure you don't need me to remind you that not all chromaticism has to come from key signature changes and that staying diatonic to any given key for long swaths of time can get pretty tiresome quickly.  You could use chromatic neighbor tones or modal exchange where you borrow tones from the parallel minor/major mode.  There's lots of other methods to create more harmonic interest.  Thanks for sharing!

Hi @barko! A quite unique little waltz that seems like it does nothing cliche.  I've listened to it a few times now and it's very individual and interesting!  It definitely has a specific tonality, but since it either doesn't start or end on the tonic chord it's hard to determine just from listening what it might be (which I think is a good thing and generates much harmonic and melodic interest!)  I also love the unusual combination of instruments that gives this quite a wacky flavor.  Tuba +Organ + Saxophone + Pitched Percussion works really well.  Thanks for sharing! Peter