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If you pay attention, there are no mega large chords. It is supposed to be played with both hands.

Thank you Pabio, I do not suffer much except emotionally, and much less than those who were engulfed in the fire and residents there. I don't think you are insensitive and disrepectful towards the victims at all, so you don't have to blame yourself for it. Thank you so much for your condolences and dedication. I wish you have a good day. Henry

@Kvothe Very cool! Loved the exposition. Especially got a kick out of the col legno in the lower parts, and the Dies Irae quote gave me a chuckle. You did leave me wanting a more definitive ending, but that's okay. Awesome!

Greetings all! Hot off the presses, here is my latest piece, my Oboe Quartet in D, for Oboe, Violin, Viola, and 'Cello. It's in four movements and lasts about 17 minutes. I don't have any accounting for why I decided to write this piece. I was just sitting there one day after I finished a Divertimento for woodwinds and had let some space come between - several weeks without writing - and the idea for the opening movement came to me out of the blue. I started writing, and it came pretty easily. The whole thing took about a month intermittently. I'm a violist, not an oboist. A couple of weeks ago I made a post asking for some guidance as to the limitations of the oboe, and got some good answers. After doing some research on my own additionally, and checking with a friend of mine who plays Classical Oboe, I've made some calculated demands in the upper register of the instrument that I'm hoping won't be too taxing on a Classical instrument. It certainly should present no problems to a player on a modern instrument. I did my best to provide reasonable opportunities for breath - the last movement being the most demanding in this way, but circular breathing may be a good option - as well as quite a number of rests to allow the player to rest his/her embouchure. I've done my best without selling myself short, and I hope it shows. I hope you enjoy this. I look forward to your comments. Thanks! - Composed: November 13 - December 6, 2025 at Austin. - Instrumentation: Oboe, Violin, Viola, Violoncello. - Style: Classical, ca. 1790-1800 - Duration: 17:15 - Electronic Rendering by Finale 27 music notation software’s "Human Playback" with NotePerformer 4 artificial intelligence assisted interpretation.

@TheGreatEscaper: This prelude highly reminds me of Rachmaninov piano writings. He often uses writes in a manner that colorful and chiromantic. He loves to use his free forms pieces to either as program pieces "Little red riddle hood" or collection preludes "Prelude in C# minor". Either way, he loves to create stories through music. Even Debussy and Ravel noticed and wrote preludes were full of colorful harmonies and rich melodic materials. One does not have to same amount as Bach! He wrote two sets of 24 in every key followed by fugues. After that, every composer followed him. Bach must be the role model for us (there were others, but Bach started it). I disagrees. I loved how the dancer in this prelude enters and creates her musical moment while she dances to court musicians playing. Again, that is something that Rachmaninov would do. He wrote musical moments, too. As @PeterthePapercomPoser , it does feel like Mazurka. Chopin wrote many of them! P.s. I hope I do see more of your works. Please take your time. No rush. Thankful for sharing, Kvothe.

Why does it say the video is not avaible?

I am trying to start mine. If anyone is interested, please check out the announcement thread.

Greetings Henry. Indeed I had expected the similarities between the primary subject of BWV 1080 and the ones used here would end up seeming far too glaring. Perhaps it may serve as a testament to the versatile simplicity of this kind of subjects, whence far greater complexity may be properly built upon. In any case, another fair reminder of Bach's genius and the omnipresent influence of his fugal developments. With that out of the way, I must apologize for not replying sooner with regards to the recent calamity. I wholeheartedly hope none of your acquaintances were directly affected by the fire. I initially hesitated to properly dedicate it to the victims due to its magnitude and devastation, and especially because of the gruesome suffering, mourning, affliction and grief so many families and friends of the deceased must be going through, for which this humble composition of mine could never properly stand up to provide nearly enough consolation. However, I should have realized sooner that not acknowledging it at all would be far more insensitive and disrespectful towards the victims and their loved ones. As such, albeit rather late, the dedication has been included in the score document. My utmost condolences. 節哀順變。

What I said is that there is no way AI generated "just a recording" of his piece. When I googled, even when I asked ChatGPT, there is no AI presently that can generate an accurate — "1:1" as OP says — mockup recording. If there was, Spitfire would be closing their doors right now. He also says he prompted it. Okay well, do you actually believe he sat there and typed out an entire note-for-note description and it rendered it? If you believe that, then prompt the AI (he doesn't say which he used) and if you don't get the exact same result, then you know he's lying. I can't get Suno to generate a solo drone, never mind a precise multi-voice harmony for choir that is 1:1 what I'd write. What has most likely happened here, is he is passing off an AI generated track as "his" work because it fit the "vision" he had or something and is providing you with a transcription. Until someone provides evidence and can replicate this piece with the same prompts or software, there is no reason to believe otherwise.

I am confused @AngelCityOutlaw. First you say that there was no way that Vonias could have generated this using AI and then you withdraw your participation because you only want to participate alongside other human-generated works. ???

Actually can you read clearly on my words? I said: Unless you are the someone, you shouldn’t feel like I’m accusing you. That’s why I say you shouldn’t get overreacted. Henry

I'm withdrawing my participation. Competition or not, if you're putting on essentially a display of music created by members and also giving out site badges for them, then I feel that music should actually be created and produced by the members of the forum. I want my music alongside other human-created works.

Thank you.

Because of controversy surrounding the following piece being generated with the help of artificial intelligence it was at first disqualified from the event. But the staff have since changed their mind and will allow @Vonias to participate:

@Vonias - The staff have discussed this further and come to the following conclusions: 1) The Christmas Music Event is not a competition and there are no rules so there was no prohibition at the outset against AI music being submitted (we will include such a prohibition in future competitions) 2) Anybody trying to get an Ardent Reviewer badge should be warned that AI was used to help in the process of producing any given piece of music and @Vonias does mention this in his description. Therefore we've decided to reinstate your piece in this years Christmas Music Event!

@Kvothe Greetings! Thank you so much for reviewing my piece! I see what you mean about using treble clef more for the higher stuff instead of ledger lines. i do the same thing with high bassoon parts, and I should probably pay more attention to that. As for shifting positions as I've called for, I've written this piece more for a highly proficient player - not a virtuoso necessarily, but the equivalent of someone with a master's degree in performance - and what I've written shouldn't present too much of a problem for a player of that calibre. I'm a violist myself, and I can play this. I've also showed it to another violist, and he found nothing prohibitive about it. Thanks again very much!

Bump 😅

I What AI? I am unaware of any AI currently on the market that is capable of rendering sheet music as high-quality, "1:1" audio. If there was already such a thing, the sample library market would have imploded. But you said you "Prompted" it. Well, I'm similarly unaware of any of the major music AIs being able to deliver anything 1:1 based on a description. If such a thing existed, Suno and whatever the other big one is would already have been trounced. I tried to get these things to generate just a drone all by itself and it couldn't even do that, so I don't believe that, based on a prompt, you got an AI to deliver these complex harmonies and such "1:1" Absolutely no way.

Can you be clear as to what exactly is AI generated? I've used AI to create music using Suno, and it's never this harmonically intricate, not even close. Just clarify for us what role AI had in this piece.

this is actually extreamly impressive I have to say I do wounder how is that chopinish feel achived? because right from the start this feels like something he would write, and I honestly have no idea how you did that

oh that sounds wounderful honestly! now I'm a bit jealous as I am sixteen as well and I don't get close to your level but oh well everyone starts somewhere :3 I'll take into account your correction about the sharps and flats, and maybe I'll extend the piece when I have time, thanks 😄

He's accusing me of just clicking a button to generate music. I think you are missing the point here. There was great effort in creating this piece. If you're looking for reasons to exclude anyone during the holuday season, so be it. Have a merry christmas.

You generated the second score after the fact of the AI-recording. So we don't know if the harmonies and melodies were generated by AI or by you because you could have simply generated them with the AI and then simply transcribed the result to get a score.

Right, but this isn't an AI generated work. The score, and midi are my own. It's an AI generated recording.

The staff have discussed this issue and we have decided that we shouldn't allow AI-generated works into the event. People who are going to try to get the "Ardent Reviewer" badge will be tasked with reviewing all the entries into the event and it would be unfair to require them to review an AI-generated work. This is not bullying.