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This is my submission for the Landscapes competition. For my landscape I have chosen this photo I took a few years ago while on vacation on Whidbey Island, which sits on the Puget Sound near Seattle. It's written for Oboe, Bassoon, and Harp. I wanted to capture the quiet, stillness of the moment with music that is very simple and delicate. Morning On Whidbey Island.mp3 Morning On Whidbey Island - Score.pdf

Thanks for the listen and the kind words!

Dear friend, thank you very much for your kind words—I’m glad you liked it. The piano is the Pianoteq 9 plugin. Sometimes the compression or the microphones might not be properly adjusted, so it can sound a bit muddled, but Pianoteq is the best there is when it comes to software. Also, I’m the one playing. I record it using the GarageBand program.

I really enjoyed it. And it reminded me of Ives’s sonatas, although he didn’t improvise. Certainly, given its length and the fact that it’s improvised, it’s phenomenal. It never loses its direction or its appeal.

A beautiful piece that strikes me as being in the neoclassical style. It’s always lovely to see handwritten sheet music. I’m not sure if it’s a live performance or a virtual instrument; these days, anything is possible. The sound is a bit ‘muddled’ for my taste in a style like this.

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you've been on this forum since 2009, and yet i cannot find ANY of your composition mp3 uploads to evaluate ? Even your Your Youtube Channel has ZERO content ? So how can any one take your advice seriously , if there's nothing to judge it by ?

Hey everyone!! I’ve been deep into some bigger projects lately (I actually got live performances of my music and I'm composing even more!), but I didn’t want these melodies to just sit untouched, so I brought a few of them together into a four-part waltz & coda — some sections orchestrated, others still in their original piano form. It’s a bit of a mix of ideas and moments, all gathered into one piece. I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed putting it together!!

String Quintet in F#m.pdf Fm fun.mp3 I LOVE this figure...was thinking I might go all, "Un Sospiro" with this and have a melody happening at the bottom of the figure Chord.mp3 I need something kind of flashy and shocking there...not just a regular V7 in minor, so I'll have to keep experimenting w/ it. Maybe C7 to F maj

Which book are you referring to?

what book are you quoting from?

HI there, I truly appreciate your effort in writing an full orchestral version of this, However, I suggest you with string orchestra first! That way, you have constraint. You can still have a can still drum kit. Next we need to address score prep (layout and engraving); While you have the correct layout of the score, the notation is hard to read. Keep this in mind: you want the score to be polish as possible! Behind bars is excellent book. Berklee has a book, too! For instance, the piano part is impossible to read!

Sir Pickles of Mercury hereby declares his entrance into the Grand Competition. (also: happy five years on the forum to me!!!!)

No, they are not allowed since you need a trio Quartet, or a quintet .chamber Orchestra’s or in this case what you may be referring to as a string orchestra at minimum could contain at least up to nine players. Two per part other than double bass since they rarely get Div.

So are chamber orchestras allowed?

Thanx The Choir was created to sound similar ,to the Film " In the Beginning " The Creation of the 1st Human-Prototype The Score was not created in a DAW, it was exported from the system,as a MIDI File, into the "MuseScore Studio 4" I dont like the DAWS as the " Lego-Brick concept " slowed me down to much. https://youtu.be/ao5VegZ4JD8?t=547

It sounds fantastic, very cinematic. The backing vocals are a bit odd, but that’s always the case with virtual ones. The score—I imagine it was created in a DAW because it’s a bit… in that style.

Wieland, thank you for taking the time to comment on my work. Your interest is much appreciated. Mark

Hello @MJFOBOE , even if this lovely string trio is only the second of your compositions that I’m going to comment, I think that I can already recognize your personal style: Playful pieces which seem to be „easy“ on the first glance, but are well crafted and have a feeling of people talking and interacting together (the other piece I reviewed was „Mother and son“). I like the independence of the voices – each one being its own personality. And even it isn’t „strict counterpoint“, I can see how the piece is developed from a few recurring motifs making it memorable and varied.

Hello @Some Guy That writes Music , I enjoyed the piece, considering that a nine-voice string arrangement has the potential for an enormous richness in texture, like that of a motet. Thus, it would be great to listen it played by a large string orchestra or by a small ensemble consisting of only one instrument per voice. I like the dissonances and somewhat unexpected harmony progressions, giving the piece its unique, modern character. But I would agree with @danishali903 's comments that there are some aspects which could be improved: I think, there is potential to further enrich the texture. Even if you’ve already developed the voices independently, there are often pairs or groups of instruments with the same rhythmic pattern and the same direction in voice leading. Contrary motion in voice leading makes the dialogue between the melodic lines more interesting and, on the other hand, helps to avoid parallels (which I have not checked and I do not expect that you to have produced ones). I would also appreciate to have more suspensions. This would give you more variation in the rhythmic pattern and allows you to create smoother harmonic transitions, which would soften the dissonances somewhat (and you could then introduce even more of them…) At some points, I also preferred more rhythmic variety in the bass. Why not contrast the long, tied notes with pizzicato sections?

Sometimes I just sit down at the keyboard and just let my fingers go wherever they want to. Most of the time I fail to capture any of that and immediately forget what I did. Today however, I just happened to be recording and captured what I played. I thought this wasn’t that bad and decided to share it. Hope you enjoy my playing around on the keys. Stream of consciousness.mp3

Atonal Cluster | V.I.P. Symphony Orchestra An eerie Chord | so mysterious, strange, unexpected as to send a chill up the spine. Atonal cluster.mp3 ★Atonal cluster.pdf

I've heard those before; even after writing music for 38 years, it sounds impossible to a non-pianist! Easy trick to it, I suppose.

Oh! Really easy scale down.