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Hi @kaiyunmusic ! Great job with this piece! It's bittersweet-ness is exquisite! I especially love the creative use of hand crossing to give the piece some sparkle in the high range despite keeping the melody in the alto range. The half-cadence at the end is a perfect way to end the piece with a longing for more. Thanks for sharing!

I really love the new feature of showing the views of a pdf file. Also the vintage brown color is back! Really love it. Henry

Hi @Wieland Handke ! I concur that the listening experience is greatly enhanced by the color coding in the score to let the listener know what to listen for! Perhaps the most interesting part for me was when the subject gets shifted by a half-note within the measure. I do have to say that there were many discordant moments in the fugue where I felt harmonically ungrounded - but the ending was satisfactory so I guess all's well that ends well! Would you say that this is an example of a ricercar rather than a fugue though? I think ricercars are more known for slow note values. Thanks for sharing!

Hi @Luis Hernández ! Nice job on this orchestration! I did notice an apparent mistake in the horn parts in measure 6 - the top note should be (I think) a concert D (written A) since the harmony there is a G major chord. Overall though I think you really include a lot of fun interplay between the parts! I think it was very clever of you to fragment some of the phrases into question and answer contrapuntal roles. Like for example the interplay between the 1st and 2nd Violins in measures 28 - 29 is really a very creative orchestration decision! Thanks for sharing and I hope to hear more orchestrations!

Hello Yenne Lee First of all,Your Guitar rendition is Exceptional & Meticulously flawless Concert Material , followed by a Huge amount of Applause. Regarding The Style of "Bossa Nova" , it isn't Fixed to one Tempo Only it can Vary . The Original Composition Tempo Above was Approx 194 BPM Where as the Composition Below is Approx 85 BPM Id be interested to here your "Orchestra" behind your Flawless Guitar Renditions posted here one day.

This forum update was a big one, which is why I put it off for a year. But I have about 90% of things back. As of now, I just made another update. MP3s and PDFs are back and with improvements. We have proper view counts now (finally!). I will be working on getting our old colors back, and don't worry, the logo will be back too. Hopefully I can also bring back the chatbox, I just need a few more days. Another major update which has been quite hidden, is the integration of a new music notation software that I've been working on for some time. That's why I had to update the forum, I'm getting ready for a release of Version 1 soon. The early adopters of Music Jotter will be migrating here and I'll be using the forums for issues and customer management. I'll also be opening up a subscriber tier (The forum will always remain free but the subscriber tier helps me develop Music Jotter, for those interested in the new technology). Overall, this forum software also should be a lot faster, so hopefully we see some improvements with speed!

Yes, congrats on the software refresh. But i also want to echo that it used to have the look/feel of a creative, low-key, grassroots composer’s group. Though the cartoon images were a little corny, i appreciated the vibe. Now it looks/feels like a cold office. If that’s because its taking time to reupload style, then you guys are probably already on it.

Hello everyone, I don’t know whether this is the correct section to post concerning „technical problems“ and suggestions, but I’ll try it. Congratulations to the software refresh of the Young Composers Forum! However, since I’m working in the software branch, I know that customers can sometimes be a nuisance because they’re the first to notice what isn’t working or seems not to be working, or when something has changed from what they’re used to. So I'll have to get used to the new layout first. What I really miss – and I am sure I’m not the first one and that the staff will be already on working around that problem – is, that the attachments, i.e. the PDF files with the scores and the MP3 files with the recordings seem to be lost, which is a big problem for reviewers. Apart from that „bug report“, I noticed that there are a number of placeholders which await to be replaced by real pictures to make the forum „colored again“. Since I’m working for a while on my own website – which I would to present to the members of the forum, too, once published – I have done a lot of „artwork“ during the last few month, so that I could contribute a few pictures as well, if appreciated.

Interestingly enough, I'm playing Wave (Bossa Nova) by Antônio Carlos Jobim with my orchestra. My comment with the composition that it has a "disco" feel to it rather than a "Jazzy Lazy" quality.

We already have "Counterpoint Wizard" badge for it! I myself receive it twice lol! We have the badge "Amorous Romanticist" for it, though no one ever receives the badge lol! What is featured in an outstanding Prokofiev writing lol? Only @Thatguy v2.0 himself can be better than himself until Thatguy vUlimited.0 lol Henry

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Thank you so much my dear friend. I’m glad that you like it 🙏

Checking in, writer's block getting the better of me. Have some ideas, and I worked on stuff but barely got past the first few notes. Just have to not give up.

Oh, I didn’t know the story behind all this. I suppose it’s because Beethoven’s variations overshadowed everything else over time. Your version is very good — I find it has personality and is easy to listen to.

The beauty about music is that even simple things can sound complex or can be just as effective. Before you completely scrap your work (as we all know that is annoying to do), with the theme consider writing a 2-bar version, 4-bar version, and 8-bar version. You already have a motif or material to base from. You can do this separately on a manuscript or other file before the main work too. With the accompaniment parts: To Me, sometimes long sustains in the orchestra translate to when I use the sustain pedal on the piano. Where I take the long harmony I am sustaining from my improv and translate it to paper. The French Horns are great for gestures like this, or even simpler, the strings. (Bassoon + clarinets are good too!) Take whatever harmony, divide between the accompaniment instruments and just hit the harmony every few beats or on the beats. It’s probably the most basic way to pulse harmony.

Hello Marek Please don't despair or feel Broken hearted, for trying hard to make a composition be appreciated, for being Special . It is appreciated and special , because its Totally Unique, your the one who created it. Medicine can taste Horrible, and make you feel ill, but in the Long-Term, it can actually help. and its the same with advice from those who are qualified to give it ,and without payment required, so thats a good thing. This is your First Post, and it was good, but MK's advice can also lead you to better things in future posts , so please don't be too despondent There's even greater scores for you to discover , in your future compositions. i wish you luck. MK.............. Im pleased your post was recognized by PeterthePapercomPoser!

First of all, I want to thank you for the review. - "diminuendo al niente" is exactly what I was looking for, thank you 🙂 Fixing this will be laborious, but relatively simple. - theme - I thought I had a theme, but apparently not, since several people, including you, have confirmed that they didn’t recognize it. This will be difficult to fix, as it disrupts the overall flow and feel of the piece. Actually, I’ll have to redo the whole thing. - accompaniment - This is my nightmare; I’m still struggling with it. Personally, I can’t stand whole notes anymore, but so far I haven’t been able to come up with anything interesting. In any case, thanks again, your review really helped me 🙂 Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

Hey all, Just wanted to let you know my new album "Seize The Night", full of gothic orchestral film music goodness is out on all major music platforms today and the solo cello is played by Grammy-nominated cellist Chloe Mendola (Trans-siberian orchestra, Michael Buble) You can check out a video performance of Chloe playing my piece "The Change" below, along with recordings of "Once Upon A Nightmare", which opens the album and Bloodborne fans will probably enjoy and "Sweet Home Salem", which is the most cello-driven piece on the album. Listen to the rest on Spotify! Hope you all enjoy it and thank you for listening!

Hello again! I just finished my comments and am eager to share. Please find this PDF for your convenience! Go to the end of the score to see the final comments. May anyone else on this thread also consider checking out the comments and share your thoughts! M. Neupauer - The Great Lighthouse (ANNOTATED).Pdf

I was listening to Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations again after quite some time, and I’ve become convinced that, personally, I believe it might be the greatest work ever written for the piano. It filled me with such excitement and inspiration that I sat down at the piano and wrote a variation of my own. Knowing the story behind this theme—that about fifty composers each wrote a variation on it—it felt like a great opportunity to test myself as well. Because of my enthusiasm, in a single sitting of about half an hour I improvised and came up with this charming figurational variation. I hope you enjoy it and appreciate it.

In this case it was about orchestrating the sketch in the image; I might even make a collection of mini orchestral studies with these kinds of things.

I had used musecore to compose this, but I didn't have my headphones plugged in, no audio was coming out of my pc while in the making I think the melodies make more sense than I expexted them, though I would've made the piece faster with richer harmonies if I had done this again

Thirty years ago, I was an accordionist. Now I’m just a hobbyist. Feel free to leave any comments, they might not be so obvious to me 🙂

Yes you are right. I am in the process of writing more variations and have already released a Scherzo on 8 of these themes (I had to keep adding themes LoL). Thanks for your interest/comment!

Yes i understand , but your First line of post states: "I made these 13 mock-ups on 13 themes from Final Fantasy VI intending to use them to familiarize myself with the themes in preparation for writing a big variations piece based on them" So i therefore assumed, you were going to take this project even further , by releasing an Original Composition, some time in the Future.