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Just finished my first String Quartet. I'd love your thoughts on it (constructive, though, please....), but most of all I need feedback on the score. I'm new to scoring (and have no musical training) and so am not confident at all with it. I'm especially worried about the notation around articulations/accents. I'd really like to know how much of it needs to change in order to make it playable by a real-life String Quartet. Track 26 - String Quartet no.1 - FULL VERSION (Jan-Mar 2026).mp3Track 26 - String Quartet no.1 - Score.pdf You can also listen and read the score at Track 26 - String Quartet no.1 (Jan-March 2026) -

My story is a bit different - I started at 52 - less then 2 years ago - with no musical training whatsoever (apart from badly strumming a guitar for a while in my later 20s...). I seem to be very prolific though - my first String Quartet that I've just finished is my 26th piece since July 2024....

To Beautiful not be scored to Film.

I get it! It's a choral arrangement, similar to the setting my college choir used! No need to worry about hand size. I just put it in piano score because I did it in two minutes.

I meant as in hand size.

To Conclude: This Intro-Outro theme, is also being held "ON-ICE"

Both | INTRO-OUTRO | enter-exit concepts, were requested to sound similar for the shows continuity . Both were rejected by MEDSTAR TELEVISION and replaced by the Signature-Sound below. However they were kept on file,with interest regarding a different Franchise in Future productions.

I feel like theme number one fits more of this style. You are choosing the second theme feels like something straight out of a video game and it sounds like more of a medieval battle theme. I see the audio effect of bass boosting certain instruments, or adding some form of distortion, especially on the horns and what sounds to be strings on the melody

Well, not really! And the German title was just for fun; my German is dreadful. It's the extracted organ part of the Sanctus, minus a couple measures, from my Missa Sabrina Fair (a parody mass based on motives from a song by my brother) and it just occurred to me that it makes a decent solo organ piece! Anyone care to registrate it for me? 😄 Well. helps to post the score! Orgelstück in G-Dur Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Organ | Noteflight

A church organ, a clavinet, and two human voices join each other in this composition of mine: https://soundcloud.com/user-321964225/captain-rosemurt-vii

Rachmaninoff? Look at my piano writing! Naw, I keep it simple. Great pianist/composers can write that "busy" stuff. Thank you for the compliment: I LOVE Rachmaninoff.

Thanks! (P. S. On the first beat, second bar, it should be tonic mode on the bass, and also, are you rachmaninoff?)

Hi there Nathan! Welcome to the forum, I do have some comments for you on this work. However, I prefer to keep it simple and annotate the score itself versus trying to type it all out in a single and concise comment. Lovely work so far and It'll interesting to see the other movements.

Thanks for the comments! It would be a fun idea, however, in my own think-tank, I wanted to do a solo piano version instead lol. I am not sure if I have the endurance to try and work out a big orchestral version. If I do, it'd only be for the second movement as I can clearly hear an oboe or F Horn in the texture. It's an interesting idea, and who knows, maybe one day 🤷‍♂️

Crystal Waters Remix | Festival. A Tribute to the late Whitney Houston, recorded in 2020, Electro-Swing style. Houston Remix 2020.mp3

How very magnificent! It’s quite humble in its build, yet is grand and marvelous! I would just consider opening up your instrumentation, it would be great in a big orchestra.

Ps if any one you play an instrument in this composition or any string (viola, violin, cello, bass) and would be open to recording even an excerpt of this it would mean a lot.

Hey guys! So over the weekend I composed the first movement of my composition “Philly”. This first movement takes place is the serene and turbid wold of north western Philadelphia. I remember as a young child living there and walking in the cloud scaped hills, as well as getting lots of donuts and pickles during the weekend. I hope you’ll look into my composition and give me feedback. I’ve already submitted it to a few ensembles which I doubt will perform it but eventually I’d love to get it performed by an ensemble in Philadelphia. Take a listen and a look! Audio: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15NoNQ7O-ghsDeWHVtaEqCI8skRZ8HZYA/view?usp=drivesdk Score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ri86LSqV7lzbPePIhvZUfSWYBEHnRsw6/view?usp=drivesdk

I wasn't that convinced at first, but over time it progressed into a very beautiful piece overall. I wouldn't categorize it as truly ambient, but I see the whole Aphex Twin-esque electronic vicinity to that definition of ambient. Certainly it is very cinematic. I wouldn't mind listening to an EP of this and similar works.

This score was conceived on the idea of building a chord using an interval pattern built as: Root (Any note) > Perfect 5th > Perfect 5th (from the prev. note) > # Semi Tone > Perfect 5th. I found that this gives you (X)min9 every time, regardless of what note you start it on. But built with intervals like this gives it a very wide, open, airy, ethereal sound that I just couldn't get enough of. Additionally, there is some personalized nuance included in the direction and theming of this piece, that is intended to depict a feeling of melancholy, mixed with a sense of hopefulness; It tells a story of losing one's purpose within their life, and struggling to find their way back to a specific goal again. I am having a difficult time sticking myself to a certain structure/form, and struggling to find more direction as to where this piece could go... Any suggestions or comments are highly appreciated :) 32468483.mp3 Aurora.pdf

Thanks for the comments! I must admit, nothing was intentional 😅. If I recreated a theme, then it was purely by coincidence. The most obvious one to me is the Mendelssohn D-minor Trio main theme. I didn't mean to use the same opening intervals, as I originally started this work at 1:00am and was just feeling the half-asleep burst of creativity do it's thing lol. I personally used Khachaturian as my basis in the Development section. It did only take me three days to finish and once I settled on the Rondo form, I admit I just took the easy way of CTRL+C. This said, It did give me inspiration to do more with the whole theme, and I did sketch out a way to make this a three movement suite. "A Suite for the Dead" would be the WiP title. When it comes time to ship the finished product, I would want to reorchestrate a majority of this work. To be honesty, the more I listen to it, while as catchy as it can be, it gets stale outside of the harmonic changes. The more I grow as a composer, the more I have the feeling I can do more with this work too. Thanks again for the comments and I would love to chat in more detail about it sometime.

Hey @Alex Weidmann ! I love this orchestration - you've included lots of clever voice exchanges between the flute, oboe and clarinet that really create a kind of klangfarbenmelodie out of Mendelssohn's original piece. So great job there! I personally like your choices of pitched percussion in this piece - in my opinion the xylophone has too sharp of an attack and brings to mind Saint-Seans' usage in the Danse Macabre where it very effectively symbolizes the dancing of the skeletons and percussive effect of bones hitting the instrument instead of mallets. Vibraphone and glockenspiel are much more mellow and sparkly (respectively speaking) which I think is appropriate for this piece! Thanks for sharing!

Hey @MichaelJohn ! What a harmonically rich, bittersweet piece! It's full of longing and emotion and full of tons of creative harmonic choices. The harmonic identity also seems kind of ambiguous to me. The piece clearly starts in D minor and that's corroborated by the key signature, but you end in F major which is a nice hopeful ending! But I actually feel that most of the piece is in G Dorian. Very interesting - and you use plenty of F add4 chords which I really love the flavor of as a kind of backdoor cadence into G minor. Thanks for sharing this gem and I am grateful that you managed to create a good looking score as I really was able to appreciate the piece much more and deeply with the score. Thanks again!

Hey @MK_Piano ! This is a nice macabre movement. I find that you have a tendency (2:59) to imitate Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata accompaniment - I think you also did this in your Halloween piece. I also recognize the melody that's playing there - I could swear that it's a quote from another Beethoven work - possibly Symphony No.6? I don't know if that was intentional. My overall impression of the piece is that there's definitely identifiable main themes in it - some of them aren't original, and there's also lots of repetition by changing the instrumentation/orchestration of the occurrence of the themes. But I did enjoy listening to this grotesque and dark piece about death! Thanks for sharing!