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Looks very good from a brief glance, and I will listen later. I have one piano piece with a Cyrillic, Ukrainian title, Dlya Kyrila, Для Кирила, but Kyrylo, though very intelligent, turned out to be a scammer, but he only wanted $900. I was in no danger; I just can't put my hands on that much ready cash anyway! Got a piano piece out of the "affair," and it is hardly my best.

A magnificent and delightful fugue. The string quartet is phenomenal here.

It’s always a pleasure to give my opinion (I don’t think it’s quite right to say ‘judge’...) on the works of my fellow musicians. And these competitions make you listen to the pieces more carefully.

I have some good examples for concert music Richard Meyer Soon Hee Newbold Brian Balmages Randall Standridge John Mackey Robert Sheldon Frank Ticheli and much more

= Sharing Musicians(Artists) and Works = I want to know a lot of musicians and works. But it's impossible to know them all just by searching on my own. So, sharing them with people who have different backgrounds and interests may lead to expanding our knowledge. Any kind of genre is welcome (the more diverse, the better!). Ex: Avant-Garde, Classical, Electronic, Ethnic, Local or Country music, Film Music, Jazz, Pop, Rock... I mean everything! Here are my examples: Ryoji Ikeda (+/-) Snarky Puppy (Somni) Richard D James (Drukqs) Venetian Snares (Rossz Csillag Alatt Született) Edgard Varese (Déserts) Stevie Wonder (Journey Through The Secret Life Of Plants) Baaba Maal (Gidelam) György Ligeti (Poème Symphonique) Jon Batiste (Beethoven Blues Für Elise - Reverie)

I used VDL. or virual drumline

𝑪𝑶𝑵𝑪𝑬𝑹𝑻𝑶 𝑨𝑳𝑳𝑬𝑮𝑹𝑶© by: V.I.P.EXCLUSIVE™...............Cheerful.............Just like Me CONCERTO ALLEGRO.mp3 CONCERTO ALLEGRO.mid CONCERTO ALLEGRO.pdf

I got a lot of my syncopation from Brahms, but a lot from Rock, GOOD Rock! The syncopated melody of a GOOD Rock song mirrors natural human speech better, because natural human speech is syncopated! Just TIE THOSE NOTES UP! They will escape, eventually....Remember: if it is syncopated all the time, it is NOT syncopated, and straight quarters will sound like syncopation!😁

Cool piece! I love how your atonal technique makes these "glassy" sounding chords, thin and angular, and the juxtaposition with a more traditional tonal sound is neat. I really think you could absolutely take this idea farther. For example, you have the sections completely separated -- I wonder what would happen if the atonal sections had moments of consonance, and/or vice versa? This atonality is quite gentle and agreeable, and consequently, I think it would be relatively easy to mix the two. Thank you for sharing!

400 views? Now I HAVE to complete the little piece; will probably be 2-3 minutes, when I feel like writing, anyway. 😉

That's quite some percussion section, wow! Are you perhaps using the Berlin Percussion library to get all those sounds? There's quite a few instruments I've never heard of before. Will have to look them up...

I'll get to the other prelude eventually. It is a cool polychord! (Thank you, Peter.)

I'm just a random passerby, but I just wanted to say I thoroughly enjoyed listening to this! It's refreshing to hear a work that looks so complicated on paper, sound so simple and easily understood. And to be clear, that's a sign of masterful compositional skills. Honestly, inspiring, and this gives me a lot to think about. Thank you for sharing!

I really can't listen, it makes me too sad; the humanity... ...but a great quartet in very little time. I mean, the dude beat Mozart Speed and still wrote a great, but sad quartet! Shosty was the most handsome of modern Russian composers, not that I love him in that way...🤣

Yes, my MASTERPIECE! Sounds like Shostakovich, on a bad day...☹️ ...like too much Vodka and strong Russian cigarettes! Lived to 69 or so anyway...I LOVE Shosty! Moi griazniy malenkey malchik... (My dirty little boy.) Dmitri Shostakovich - String Quartet No. 8 Three days for this quartet, after viewing the firebombed ruins of Dresden. The German Leute did not commit the crimes of the Nazis!

Hi @Fruit hunter ! I think the introduction does a good job of creating a mood/vibe and sets the expectation for the rest of the piece. The introduction is static in harmony but active in melody. Then you seem to develop the piece with a wide array of percussion instruments that create a cinematic portrait of "the creature". There are short motifs that recur throughout the piece in the harp and pitched percussion instruments and even woodblocks which is cool. Then, before the 4-minute mark you start a sort of simple chorale that's very affecting. This calm and tranquil lull quickly builds into a sustained intensity that is very powerful! The harp motif from the beginning returns near the latter half of the piece before a percussion frenzy and foreboding strings. The intensity rises perhaps to its highest pitch before the 10-minute mark. The hurried ending seems contrived, and I think a soft fade out could have been a more artistic choice. The piece overall seems to start in F# minor and end in B minor so I can't say that it didn't modulate or take the listener anywhere harmonically, but it seems to have done the minimum amount of adventuring through different keys that it could while sustaining the moods it was trying to convey - that's my only critique though without looking at the score. Thanks for sharing!

I can tell you all that this little misunderstanding, interchange, will force me to complete this piece, piano prelude. It will be good when I get to it, but probably not my best. 🙃

Ah ok

Sehr Gut, for now. I don't want to insult ANYBODY, let alone a site admin, but I have a weird sense of humor; you can hear it in my music sometimes!

Thanks, Peter. I don't want to get suspended again, and your music is very proficient and good, based on what I have read or heard.

Well, I am a BIT drunk, but still lucid. Can we forget about this trivial minor disagreement? We are BOTH composers after all, and some composers can be a**h$les without meaning to, like Herr Mozart.

Honestly I think you are drunk and you don't know what you are doing and saying LoL

Where did I say you were attacking me? I don't see what there is to reconcile about.

Jesus, Peter, I am not attacking you! You are a very good fellow composer! It's just like sometimes you can't take a joke, take it as a personal insult, and I don't mean to do that. Can we reconcile? And I am not a mod or an admin. Forgive my amateurishness, if my posts are not always exactly in the right place.

Thank you? I think? I didn't take things personally at all. Actually I thought your Space Nerd piece was quite good and idiosyncratic. That's why I made a dedicated topic for it. Plus all original pieces of music are supposed to have their own dedicated topics per the forum code of conduct and etiquette. Since I am a site admin I was just doing some moderating by making sure that your posts are in their right place in the forum.