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No, you ain't doing that. You're writing a one-liner of what we could convey to call an opinion. Then, you proceed to tell us (in that very same post) a lot of stuff about you & your life in someone else's posts. You're human, glad to know. Now, can we convey that expressing your opinions on someone's piece is not equal to dropping paragraphs and paragraphs of events of your recent life that happen to have absolutely nothing to do with the original posters' pieces, which contributes/adds nothing in regards of feedback to them or to virtually anybody else? Can we convey that all that is completely uncalled for and that as I told you, there are a variety of alternatives if you want to keep doing that? No comment on the ugliness/prettiness of Beethoven and his looks. That was just a detail, my sources are mainly Jan Swafford's take on his life. He has a book called "Beethoven: anguish and triumph".

Not a harpist, so I couldn't speak to the playability of this piece, however, just judging off of the difficulty in the reading of this alone, I would wager to say that it would be either extremely difficult to perform, and would likely be reserved for only the best of the best harpists 😅 as far as your question regarding string harmonies, I feel that it was done very well. it blends well, and it very much so fits the description that your title suggests. Very ethereal, whimsical, magical etc... I was also gonna comment on the fact that you had a pppp for piccolo while they were playing in the high register, which would be physically impossible, but as I thought that it was likely just for the playback, your description of it affirmed that suspicion lol so I'll leave that one be. Though, I do wonder if this could be more legible if written in a different time signature? 🤔 Right this second, I haven't taken the liberty to subdivide what you have here, to suggest a specific time signature, however, I say this because the 11-lets & 15-lets, without having some sort of a split-beam, at least to me, become difficult to follow, and appear unsightly, but that's simply my own opinion on the appearance and readability of the score itself. The work itself is phenomenal! I'm simply unsure of how it would be best written to allow for the clearest interpretation while reading. Thanks for sharing, and apologies on my lack of suggestions for alternatives :/ at the time I've decided to login, my brain is just not at its peak performance, as I've just made it back home from a repair job and it's currently 12:32am my time 😅

Hello everyone, I'm back, this is my new piece in Japanese style, hope you like it. the video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1c3EQ6aE9k/?vd_source=95e0ca6d098d75738c935e50eaa3ac41 Op.8 Nr.2.mp3

I know I promised to listen to these preludes, and I will when I calm down, but I am very weary of people taking little things I say the wrong way. I am a talented composer myself, but no Genius. Go talk to Bach or Beethoven. I just want to enjoy life if I can, and write some music, when I feel like it. I will listen to your preludes when I am in the correct mood. ☹️ Obviously, just glancing at the scores, you are a good pianist and composer, and don't use any more "Black Notes" than needed.

Really, guys, my fellow composers, it is really not so serious as some would like to make it out to be! Enjoy life, if you are able, and if you are not able, try to find something simple and beautiful to comfort you! That is all, I am no savior or prophet; I just try to be an honest man.

Good God; leave me alone! I just want to get a little drunk, and not write any music right now, but listen to something good but fun, like well-constructed Classic Rock and Roll! I want to see my best friend Jackie tomorrow, if she is not too busy, so we can get together and clean this little shotgun-shack hovel of a house! ☹️🤣😉

Yeah, whatever. I just post my pretty-good music, and express my opinions, such as they are. I am human, like anybody else.

Well, he survived Smallpox, for God's sake! His beauty was in his music, not in his Face! He had deeply penetrating eyes, so they say, but he was described by women as being short, swarthy, and ugly! His MUSIC, however, was beautiful, and will last for all eternity, as long as we do not fick up this world so much that no one can survive...Just write your music like anyone else, who has a taste for that sort of thing. It will outlive you for sure, when you are in the afterlife, if you deserve such a thing. Don't hurt innocent children, and be a basically good person, and you will have a very good chance! Bon Chance!

I'm reading through all this and I must point out that this is kind of wrong. Not that he didn't have deep friendships with women, guess that's probably true (though it was definitely not a friend of his brother's wife*). What I wanted to state here is that many did find Beethoven attractive in his youth for certain manners he had and he did date various girls, including some "precious one" or "beloved one" whose identity is not really clear. Now, regarding your issue here, which I'm not sure if you see or not Mr @Churchcantor : the problem here ain't your sense of humour. I would say it's not really that you overextend on your personal life. The problem is that you do that in posts from people who are asking for feedback, criticism, or any other commentary relevant to the piece, WIP work, set of pieces, etc. that they are working on! Look man: In this post by one fellow old user of this very forum, which showcases ten preludes for piano that his user made, you replied: You know this part I marked in bold and cursive. That's outside of the feedback. Your feedback is: "Hey, these seem very nice! I will check them out. Already "liked" them, I can just tell from glancing at a few of them..." And then you, all of a sudden, proceed to talk about you, your piece, your friend, etc etc etc. That's uncalled for, as simply as that. But you kept going dude, what? Good man, this ain't a personal chat with you and a common friend of yours. Guy doesn't know Jackie, most likely. Guy doesn't know you either, and now for some reason whenever he turns on the PC and sees some notifications, instead of actual feedback you know what he will find? You, talking about yourself, about your friend that needs xyz, about oh wait is this some actual feedback? Ah welp, no it's not. You didn't listen to the preludes, but you already posted 3 messages there and 2 and a half of them are about you, and the other remaining half is split between saying that you didn't listen to the set of pieces & that you "liked" them. And finally, yet another message: Did the Henry guy ask you about you or your friend man? Or the original poster of the preludes? Do you realise you're still replying to a post that consists on an user posting 10 preludes and awaiting for feedback? Didn't you think about sending Henry a private message in regards of his confusion? Don't you see why he's "confused" at best? Cool dude. What if you, instead of going to someone else's post to talk about that, don't proceed to give us all that speech in your own post, with your own music? If I wanna talk about myself, look at what we got: If you feel that what you want to share of your life is too long for this "About Me" section, my best advice would be: host a web, make a blog, and let your friends know. This is not about trolling or not trolling, being funnier or less; It's not even about you yourself Churchcantor. It is about not spamming your life on someone else's posts when it's absolutely, completely, categorically and unequivocally uncalled for. You got me, right? Regards!

Jesus, listen to ALL of my music, not a little Shostakovich-when-drunk-on-vodka piece! I am thoroughly trained, but not as good as Beethoven! Can you not take a little joke? I am NO TROLL; just a talented but not "Genius" neoclassical composer! 🤣 Barcarolle Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Piano/Keyboard | Noteflight 1996, age 27, in some bar or coffeeshop on East Boulevard, in Charlotte, NC. I think it is pretty cool given all that!

Once a spammer is identified, banning them is as easy as pressing a button.

It’s obvious the guy is trolling us. He thrives on attention. His music - intentionally or not - is trash. He repeatedly comments on his own posts to maintain maximum visibility. If that’s his game, don’t feed his energy. Ban if you must, but - dare i say - he will just make a new account.

I can play that song fairly well on Electric, fretless bass, but can't handle those constant high G Sharps vocally, without a microphone, at least! 🤣

The Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music (Live in Isolation)

I do not understand why you are confused, Henry Ng, a composer surely as good as I am! I am just concerned about my friend, but she is quite fine now. She will come tomorrow and help me clean the house! Why is this so big a deal, to have a good friendship with a member of the opposite sex, when we have both agreed that it shouldn't be sexual? There is more to life than THAT, though it is very useful, Wirklich auf Deutsch, for reproduction. We are very loving friends, but only that. She is sort of my Muse, lately though. I could almost swear that she wrote 40% of my only, and fairly decent piano sonata in 38 years of writing music, even though she can't read music herself. Sure, I, like anyone, have sexual desires myself sometimes, but not for her: our love is pure friendship, and purer than all that, even if we drink some beer together sometimes, and laugh at silly things!

Hi to all. I've now completed my orchestration of all three movements of "The Hour Glass" (originally for piano solo). This second movement was the hardest of all to orchestrate: so any tips on how to make it better would be very welcome! I found it especially difficult to create suitable harmonies for a string bed to go underneath the intricate arpeggios in the harp. Not sure I've done it very well. Also, some of the chromaticism in the harp part may be unplayable, because of the pedals? Haven't got around to adding slurs and phrasing yet, and as usual, my dynamics are designed for midi only. Frank Bridge - The Dew Fairy #28.mp3 Frank Bridge - The Dew Fairy #28.pdf

Anyway, carry on! I will listen to these even from a cursory glance very good piano pieces in their entirety when I can truly pay proper attention to them, and you have my word on that.

Jackie is just fine, but I feel like something fun, like good Classic Rock right now, to calm my nerves!

Hello, glad to be here. I love listening to music. However, since I couldn't attend a music university or take lessons and didn't try to learn by myself, I couldn't learn music notation. Now, I feel how important it is to learn notation. Therefore, I want to ask how I can learn music notation. I want to learn it on my own while occasionally asking for help on this forum. First, I want to start with free resources, but my search returned too many websites and YouTube channels, leaving me totally confused about which one to choose. If you have some time, I would be so happy to receive your advice about how I can start to learn it and how to go to the next step. By the way, I would like to say that you all compose such good music. My hat is always off to you. Thank you. Best, Lithl.

It's like when you steal and get caught and then you tell the police, "just return it to the owner and it's fine!". Do you think it's proper when you don't bear consequence for posting all these irrelevant content as a harassment to the forum?

It is YOUR responsibility to keep your posts appropriate not ours. We are not paid moderators, and we do not have to babysit and police everything you do. ALL the other users on this forum understand this and are able to police themselves and use their own good judgment - but you do not, hence why we are considering banning you.

I think you are taking this far too seriously. Just delete the posts you do not like! You are driving me towards buying some beer, getting a bit tipsy, and just listening to something technically proficient yet fun, like Gilbert and Sullivan! Would like to hang out with Jackie, but it is about to storm, and she is very busy with online managerial school, 4.0 average, and I don't want to bother her! Really...

This is what you don't understand. This kind of sharing in this forum is inappropriate. We are currently voting whether to ban you from the forum. You do not understand basic personal boundaries. You are over-exposing yourself and the personal details of your life - things that nobody on the website should have to read through and care about if they are coming here to listen to music and get feedback on their music. The nature of your relationships irl are TOTALLY IRRELEVANT.

Well, if you don't care, that is fine, but it is a deep, non-sexual friendship, and she has been having a profound influence on my music lately. Personal relationships, romantic or not, can have a profound effect on one's art; look at Beethoven! He had deep friendships with women, even if they did not find him attractive in that way.

What are you talking about? Henry was referring to the consequences of continuing to post the details of your personal life in the forum. Nobody cares about the nature of your relationships! That's the problem - you keep talking about things that have no bearing on music and is totally irrelevant and meaningless to other members posts!