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Hello my friends. Im new here . My friend Henry told me about this forum so im glad that i am here with you . Here a bagatelle that i want to share. Bagatelle in B major. I hope you like it https://youtu.be/oIjmE8spNak?si=nf4Rw0C4RrNsjRYM Here my youtube channel so you can check all my compositions. https://www.youtube.com/@VasilisMichael87 Thank you very much

Hi, I'm new here on this forum. I've been making music as a hobby for many years, first mostly guitar (fusion) with keyboard and a DAW (studio one) and in the last couple of years more and more "classical" or rather symphonic music, first in a DAW, but now mostly in Dorico as i like the workflow much better. I've self-studied a lot of theory from books and youtube-videos. These are 3 of my latest compositions. I tend to make something I would call a "fantasy", as I like to let my mind flow and let the themes and ideas flow. Maybe it results in a mess, I'm not sure...😀 I'm writing in Dorico with Noteperformer and I'm using the standard sounds, except the strings where I'm using Spitfire BBC core. The Purple Fields Blue Jelly Eight Crows in a Tree

peter, It is unfortunate to hear that this work did not appeal to you much(sad trumpet noises*). I think I actually did a lot to include the main theme in much of my work: the melody from m. 9 reappears in m. 30, m. 44 and m. 48(as an inversion). The B section itself is based on the same theme, while the C slap-tongue section utilizes a different material. I guess the theme isn’t as easy to follow since it has a quirky meter and twists + turns. Thank you for commenting on my use of extended techniques tho, always good to exploit my performers fullest potential(apart from the percussion).

VARIATION 2 has been fully scored!!! yipiieeee much more rhythm heavy, orchestration is much more heavier, theme is still very much recognizable, just under different context

Kudos on finishing your first orchestral composition. As other have said, you are quoting others. I hear Venus! To me, this is beautiful. 🙂

I used this prompt: At 84 BPM, this 7-minute track fuses atonal, serialist synth pulses and evolving textures, building slowly with sparse, shifting patterns. Verses feature minimalist motifs and precise percussion, while choruses unleash glitchy break core and DnB drums—rapid, fragmented, and hyper-detailed. It's a secret for now, but I created a website that generates atonal fugues at the press of a button: Projects - David Harper Then, with the generated midi file, I upload to Suno.com - it began picking up on atonal, serialism, and explicitly, Schoenberg.

Hello @K. A. Frayre! Welcome to the forum! I haven't listened to your music yet, but I have seen that you put each page of the score as JPG here, and the resolution is very clear. Would you instead upload the pdf file of the score so that viewers can look into the details in your music more easily? Also, it saves up space for your post haha. Thx for joining our forum! Henry

I've been working on a piece based on musical language from the eastern Hemisphere, and just wanted some feedback on it, if possible. I plan to make it 10+ minutes long, and would like to see if I could add or fix things before I start working on the 2nd movement. Here's a link to the score video: And higher quality images of the score:

horror 1 (not 3, sorry) chase rework rework (yes, that's a thing.)

hi @PeterthePapercomPoser thank you for the feedback as always! I agree with you it should be cut-time. No wonder it felt a little strange.. haha. I use a combination of Musescore and Dorico.

To break up the computer-assisted music a bit, here is a very different one composed in a more traditional fashion:

Hey @Alex Weidmann! So this is the piece you wrote that was inspired by "To Zanarkand" from Final Fantasy X? It's not bad! When I listen to the original piano piece, and compare it to yours the first thing that I notice is that, in the original the melody is brought out more in high relief. You can do this too if you use MS Basic Piano soundfont and offset the velocity values of the melody to about 32 higher than the rest to really bring it out of the overall texture. There are plenty of great emotive harmonic moments in your piece that get lost among the mind numbing narrative of imbalanced piano noodling. When you don't bring out the melody, the listener doesn't know what to listen for and retreats into a passive listening mode, which is what I think is happening here. That's my advice - thanks for sharing!

Hi to all. This piano work was inspired by Nobuo Uematsu's music from Final Fantasy X. I feel like it's not a great piece, probably because it's been revised too many times, and sounds disjointed as a result. But interested to know what you think!

jesus christ why does it autofix ": P" to 😛

Hi again @kaiyunmusic! What a wonderfully sweet and relaxing piece! The musical content itself is great and I wouldn't change a thing about it! My only critique is with how you notated this. I would notate it like this instead: Your version is essentially in cut-time (or otherwise known as 2/2) while this version is in 4/4. What program do you use? If you wanted to convert your score to look like this you could select all of your notes and there should be some option somewhere for diminution by half or "paste at half duration" or something. Thanks for sharing!

hey hey! i've been composing for around three months I think, and I would like to hear some feedback of my stuff 😛

Thanks! but I don't really want to. I'm not really into old/1800 music, and I don't use discord.

Hello! I finished a new piano song that I had fun playing and started as a sketch last summer. I'm happy to finish it! I hope you enjoy ~

That's actually easy to change. When the first note of the phrase is selected, Control-T brings up the little speaker icon above the staff. Then you click on it, and select "classic phrasing". (Why they've chosen to have portamento phrasing by default is beyond me!)

Bravo! What a pleasure to come back to take a look at the forum and find a whole beautiful sonata ready for a wonderful listen. Thanks, @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu As usual I wish I jotted down notes to articulate a nice meaningful helpful constructive and honest critique, but I haven't, so here's my superficial impressions. Wow! Dancing letters, and bird calls, and Beethoven quotes and spirit, and pentatonicisms, and random pauses, and self-citations, and myriad more things, all packaged in an incredibly cohesive and consistent dialogue that both stays within the confines of classical forms and pushes the envelope. At the same time?!? how do you do this? With mastery and an uncanny passion for c sharp minor, I guess? There are so many bits and parts that I loved (the andantino variation, the way the second movement - that to me started meh - grew on me maybe especially with the wonderful g flat section, the smartness of the scherzo, the interesting comfort of the first movement, where first and second theme look so alike, and yet are so different...), and not a lot that I did not enjoy (I remember a forte section in the second movement that seemed to me was compromising the balance of the movement, something in the general architecture of scherzo that did not persuade me, except that the middle section makes anything forgiven). Speaking of the mid section of the scherzo, that is such an interesting way to stay within the form, and yet - but with elegance and taste - step outside of it, a little self-referential joke about musical forms themselves, smart but also elegant and pretty to listen to, cerebral but lovely to the ear. Bravo! It is a real joy to listen to this, thanks again!

@PeterthePapercomPoser Thank you for the comment! At first thought I would like a gradual build up from the piano part, so I made the texture thinner and let the piano play first. Perhaps a short introduction will work. An example I can think of is Rachmaninoff's version of Liebesleid. Let me try and share again:)

Is that the secret manual for understanding this Scherzo 🤪

I might as well publicize the Google sheet since you're not the first to mention it: Scherzo Index

Yo Peter! Sorry I have been late to the party, due to laziness lol. Although I have listened to your excerpts tons of times, this is the first time I listen to a movement in full and with score. I must say, it sounds even more fascinating with a score at hand! I thoroughly enjoy this even though I have zero exposure to FF world, thx to my strict mum (time to blame your mum for a miserable childhood when you fail yourself in your real life lol!) I cannot and will not distinguish those 8 themes haha, just like Wanger's Leitmotifs which I can never remember their originals when they reappear at all lol. My most familiar theme is probably the Terra's theme because it usually starts a variation in imitation. I think this one really fits for a Scherzo. It sounds like an adventure and joyous wanderings but there is dark power underneath though not very apparent at the moment I guess. Btw, what are the short forms for the code of each of the 8 themes in the rehersal markings? The whole orchestration for me is fascinating and I will for sure steal something from here to my orchestration variations on your themes lol. lemme just take note of some spots I like: Beginning: I love all those imitations for the Terra Theme, it sounds like each team member is following the team's footstep into a journey to fxxk off the monster or final big boss, and the stretto treatment of the imitation gives excitement right at the beginning. The marching rhythm underneath with Timpani, Tuba, Cello and Double Bass is a pattern I should steal, though I may use add a bass drum to the snare drum as well. I also love both the Dorian C# and Phyrgian F natural in your themes as it really adds the folkore colour in the work. b.21 R Var.3: Love the very low register oboe, sounds dark to me. Since I'm also using harps in writing your variation, will you also follow the performance practice to the pedals the harp is using at the moment? You know what, I always get headached when I need to check whether the pedal notes of the harp is right. b.42 ES: Love the wind sextet setting, and then the string quartet plus horn setting. Sad the weird Musecore string sound sample which ruins the melody by always sliding ludicrously! b.72 FP Var.2: Love you start introducing the polyrhythm in flute in b.81, which will be used later for climax. Also, I really love the parallel fifth bass in b.89 as it sounds so prefectly disturbing! b.97 EA: I absolutely love the buildup here with both the tempo acceleration, tremolo, shorter and closer notes and more dissonances. I like the cilmax in b.117 esp. with the electric bass. Though, will it be great to add some brass here as well? It sounds a bit thin for a fff dynamic here for me personally. b.117 Scherzo beginning: I love the beginning. Though maybe for me I would also add a harp and a piano playing the low E here for that particular timbre, if there's not cost adding them haha. The new theme sound so peaceful, but the BD theme sounds greatly weird haha. I love the tremolo beneath and also your modulation to other keys here in b.170, since the music more or less stays in the tonal centre E for couple of minutes and it's the right time to add new things into it. And that G-Bb reinterpreted as G-A# to F#-B in flute, wow. b.180 L Var.3: Nice counterpoint between winds and horn themes even I forget where do the themes come from at all, and nice clash in b.183. b.196 FA: I really love the modulations here towards the hexatonic keys, they don't sound cliche as in many film music. The harmonic colour here is fascinating! Though, I may add a cresc. to ffffffff before the rests in b.207 and 211. b.218 AS Var.1: Nice relaxation! Nice imitation throughout as well. The polyrhythm from b.81 reappears as well. And that goddamn modulation to Db major in b.258!! It sounds so magical and refreshed after all those sharp key areas! But, it's so short!!!! And ruined immediately by the Kafka theme. Love the outburst of hextaonic G# minor and F minor at the end. It sounds unfinished which it should be for there are movements to follow. I remember Peter has an entire excel spreadsheet for all the themes he uses in each of the variation LoL!!!!!!!!!!!! Honestly I didn't remember any details in it due to my lazy nature lol. Very enjoyable! Looking forward to your other movements!! Henry