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Hi, I'm a 17yo self-learning composer. Looking for all kinds of advice and feedbacks. I composed this piece a year ago. I also open to all learning opportunities / recommendations. This is the youtube video, enjoy!

Variations on Dies Irae.mp3 I haven't quite been feeling the compositional drive recently, but I did try writing something for one of the informal group competitions over on MuseScore that I'd thought I'd share here as well. I would have definitely liked to write more variations but I was kinda lazy and went with three, which I hope contrast well with each other. I'm always revising my work, so is there anything that you like/dislike about this? As a pianist, I'm also not good at composing for string instruments (this is my...second ever attempt at a string quartet work?) and would be happy to receive feedback on my string writing too! I feel like I may have been too enthusiastic with the slurs and probably should remove a bunch of them... Variations on Dies Irae.pdf

And... I am done! Thank you and good job to everyone who has joined the competition! I am looking forward for the Christmas Competition!

Do you want to take some maths lessons from me? PLEASE............................................................ Anyways, to my scorings: Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 7 7 8 7 10 9 7 8 Average: 7.875 Average

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 10 9 6.5 9.5 7.5 7.5 8 7.5 Nice! Very good. Average: 8.1875 Above Average

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 8 9 9 10 7 0 6 6 DO YOU HAVE 10 FINGERS ON YOUR RIGHT HAND? AND WHAT IS YOUR HANDSPAN? WHERE ARE YOU FROM TO CALL THIS A NATIONAL DANCE?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!??!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? ANyWaYs,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, AveRaGE: 6.875 And also I think I got brain damage, so maybe 6.5.

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 8 8 6.5 9.5 10 8.5 9 9 Average: 8.5625 Above Average

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 7.5 6.5 8 8.5 10 (nice!) 6.5 7 8 Average: 7.75 Average

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 8.5 7 6.5 8 7.5 7 6 5 Average: 6.9375 Below Average

The harmony and colours I get from this are gorgeous (bar 12 tickles my brain, but all the movements from chord to chord are exquisite), as well as the appearance and disappearance and reappearance of that 'swinging-pendulum' motif, as Henry pointed out. I'm getting extra ideas for what other textures to put in my slow movements with what you've presented in b. 40 🙂, and I have to say that the piano strings from b. 52 onwards are an excellent touch. Seeing that this is just an intermezzo, I'm sure the other movements are just as interesting! I wonder how this fits into the ballet...

This is just a reminder post for those wishing to receive an "Ardent Reviewer" badge that by Monday 11:59 pm PST you might still need to review some works! @Omicronrg9, @Wieland Handke, @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, @chopin, and myself @PeterthePapercomPoser have reviewed all the entries (minus their own) and will receive the "Ardent Reviewer" badge! @TristanTheTristan - you still need to review Thatguy's piece and the last five pieces in the list. @HoYin Cheung - you've only reviewed two pieces. Do you still intend to review the rest? @UncleRed99 - you still need to review Omicronrg9's piece and the last six pieces in the list. @Kvothe - you still need to review Maxthemusicenthusiast's piece and UncleRed99's piece. @MK_Piano - you still need to review sebastian Pafundo's, Maxthemusicenthusiast's, Kvothe's, Thatguy v2.0's, and the last five pieces. @Thatguy v2.0 - you still need to review Micah's and Dima's pieces. @therealAJGS - you still need to review Maxthemusicenthusiast's, TristanTheTristan's, and the last two pieces. @Cosmia - you've only reviewed three pieces. Do you still intend to review the rest? Of course, we're all grateful for your time and your willingness to review however much you want to! Thank you for making this competition fun and instructional for everyone!

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As for christmas event, I am usually busy around that time, so I probably opt out.

There used to be more reviewers, but it seems it seems they have moved on. 😞 Also, at times, activity at is rather slow. Young composer strive for quick feedback. That they can improve. No feed back will not help them. 😞

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 6.5 10 10 10 10 9 9 10 Ah, this piece is right up my alley. I could tell this is perhaps Ravel inspired, and this is a style I really enjoy. Id say that the melody is weak, or just missing, however, you do a great job at still keeping things very interesting, purely with your structure and harmony. Speaking of harmony, amazing and well done! The mood of the piece brings on a sense of high tension and release. Technically, this is hard to play, but given my experience with piano and this type of style, its very doable, especially at this slower tempo. Does it remind me Halloween though? This is definitely more "art style" music, however, it offers chilling sections, with some released tension. After all, in horror situations, no one's being chased for the whole movie, right? There always is a sense of reprieve! Melody: While there are some instances of motifs, I found this to be more of a mood piece. But you are able to keep it interesting. This is due to your structure, and harmony. Harmony & Structure: This is where you shine, your harmony is what drives this piece, but the structure is what keeps everything legible and easy to follow. Originality and Score Presentation: Score is beautiful, nice use of cross staves to keep the music easier to read, and tuplets help group your rhythms. Playability: Very difficult to perform, but clearly laid out and with a lot of practice, there should be no problems here. The second movement could be trickier because you have more key changes. Execution of challenge: Eerie atmosphere, tension buildup and release. Great elements to get into the Halloween spirit! Taste: I absolutely love this style, I started getting into Ravel which influenced some of my later compositions. I feel like you do an excellent job at capturing this style.

@ferrum.wav What daw do you use?

The score goes only up to measure 36, you can disregard the rest

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 10 8 10 10 10 9.5 10 9 VERY fun melody, highly original, clear structure and clearly able to create that Halloween vibe in a fun whimsical way! And I love the way you are able make use of your instruments to your advantage to help progress the piece. The breaks in your music also feel natural, and help build the suspense. Melody and Harmony: Beautiful melody, it's perfect! The supporting harmony is fun, clear, and helps move things along. Form and originality: Your music reads like a book, it has a clear intro, body and ending. The natural breaks are equivalent to paragraphs, and you build suspense this way much like a novel. Score Presentation & Playability: Good structure, clear music notation, reasonable tempo and natural breaks all contribute to the high score presentation + playability metric. Execution and taste: Personally I enjoyed the full piece, and the general mood reminds me a lot of a lighthearted Halloween dance! The breaks in this piece also contribute to the mood changes, which helps accentuate your catchy melody.

yeah i could see that actually. a large part of the main theme consists of a downward sequence of the motif. yet, the part that teases it repeats the motif a lot too. so, i get not catching the first statement of the main theme. though i've tried to signal it by putting it after the climax of the intro with dynamic and textural contrast this is actually parts of my weakness i've been trying to work on: letting themes breathe more with rests or signalling the end of a part clearly. the time limit is also a factor here cus i'd give longer rests to more sections if there was more time.

hahahaha, OH THE SHAME WILL BE SEEN

Your caliber of writing deserves to be entered with all the others, you're great! Thanks for the recommendation, I'll check out his music

Hi! Drive links are fine, but you can also just drag your files here and they will be automatically shown. Welcome to the forums! In fact it seems like a work with five movements according to the PDF itself, but the OP submitted 3 here. Multi-movement works are fine, it's a shame you had to split it up. Do not hesitate on publishing the rest anyways! On the engraving plane, I would recommended you to mark the beginning of each movement with its subtitle. Just a detail, but a neat one if you ask me! There are some overlaps here and there but overall the score seems idiomatic for strings. Other users, better acquainted with these instruments may disagree or agree, but I see that you let them "breathe" (except at some spots, e.g: M19-25 on the Scherzando, Violin I, but still probably not too difficult to get) and that you have not written anything incredibly difficult. Articulations are detailed, harmonics are marked, there's a good use of dynamics... First movement starts off decently, but what I liked the most was the groove that it takes sometimes. Wish it had lasted more! This movement alone could have been enough as an entry for the competition, and I find it more or less appealing after a few listens! The second movement also has this groovy feeling that appears and disappears. It takes a bit of time to actually get started and make full use of that swing! This also happened to a degree in the prior movement, you seemed to intentionally try to make the piece not too rooted in that catchy rhythmic pattern. Not sure if it was the best choice or if the way to avoid it was optimal. The third one was the most tense and there were some really GOOD moments in there, but I can't get off the impression that you added unnecessary passages to increase that tension. It may be just me, though. All in all, a great submission. Many thanks for showing it here 🙂 and good luck in the polls! Best regards, Daniel–Ø.

Yeah, I've settled on making it readable for me, and it could always be spelled differently for certain instruments and spots if the need ever arose. The diminshed scale stuff was fun though, I have decent experience with the whole-half dim. scale but not so much with the half-whole. Very different colors harmonically 🙂 Nice, I'll check it out! I don't remember, it's been so long since I've seen those movies haha. I only remember Marty playing guitar 😄 Thanks Peter! Some of the technique stuff I wanted to do my samples wouldn't allow, but I liked the way the glissandos turned out. This piece made me realize I need to keep practicing string writing, I was afraid of double stops and playability at such a fast tempo. With more time and study, I would have been more fearless with it, but I still like the way it turned out. I'm glad it evoked such scary imagery for you!

@Thatguy v2.0Thank you so much, really nice of you to say! This was my first submission ever, I have not participated in any competitions before, which is why I love the fact it's informal and open to such wonderful community of individuals, so I wanted to try it out to get more encouragement for applying haha. When it comes to recording - the piano part is played by one of my collegues and my favorite composer of this age: Veljko Nenadić, If you like exploring contemporary music I highly recommend ( https://www.youtube.com/c/VeljkoNenadić ). The strings were added afterwards and they are midi. ^^

it is a mix and it's all free: flute, contrabassoon: Symphonic Sounds (Flute SSO, Contrabassoon SSO) violin: VSCO-2-CE-1.1.0 (Versillian Community Chamber Orchestra) cello: Virtual Playing Orchestra 3 (for the tremolo i used the orchestral one cus i couldnt find one for solo cello) piano: Yamaha C5 Grand-v2.4 do keep in mind that i also manually edit the velocity of every single note and add reverb but yoursss is my favoriteee, i actually got a bit creeped out listening to it. but yeah your description of my style is pretty accurate, no matter how many times i've tried to tone down the wildness, the wildness creeps back thanks for the comments !!!