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This was fantastic to listen to! Your first submission was fun, but I feel like this one offers a lot more color and character. Excellent usage of all the instruments. The piece moved along, was extremely focused and had good momentum. I also feel like every note served a purpose. Well done.

What a great piece, and very soothing. A perfect way to calm one's nerves during the stress of this holiday!

Nice blending of styles, and a fun little catchy tune. Love the animated Santa graphic haha.

Thanks for letting us know this is AI generated / assisted. This is very catchy, and a fun, non typical style for a religious tune. Also, some nice lyrics you have.

Definitely reminds me of Tchaikovsky, and ballet style music. I can picture this piece being played in a Broadway musical.

What a great ear training challenge. Great playing btw. You HAVE to listen to this a few times to pick up on things though. For example, 1:10 to 1:45 I think represents the "Oh what fun it is to ride in a one horse open sleigh" part of the song, and the same goes for around 2:25, which I think is a bit more obvious. This was awesome!

This is incredibly coherent for 8 voices. Normally I would say something about the strict key, but in this case, it doesn't matter. This makes the few times you do change much more noticeable. Plus the musicality is in the voices! When I listened to this again without the score, the music became even clearer to me, because my mind was not overwhelmed by all those voices visually. This was absolutely beautiful.

This reminds me of town theme in some of those old school rpg games. Great melody, great pacing and cheery. Very nice!

Listened to the whole piece. This is a very deep composition with various themes and fun styles throughout. This must have taken you awhile to create!

A nice swing to it. Love the occasional brass at the beginning, and nice looping!

Another little one-minute instrumental carol to add to the ones I've written previously.

This is my second (and „official“) submission to the YCF 2025 Christmas Event. Disclaimer: I must admit that my first submission „The empty church“ is based on the same material like this one, to be more precisely, it is literally the Basso Continuo part of this pastorale. Taking into account how many discussions arose concerning the usage of AI, I would be willing to withdraw „The empty church“ from the event on demand if anyone claims that he/she does not want to review the same material twice. However, I spent a lot of time in realizing the Basso Continuo part and now enjoy it so much that I have decided to give it its own score and video, making it a piece in its own right.

Merry Christmas, dear fellow composers! This is my second (and „official“) submission to the YCF 2025 Christmas Event. It is a Christmas Pastorale played by a small Baroque orchestra with the typical instruments of shepherds, such as flutes, violines, a lute and a „surprise instrument“. Although the instrumentation is somewhat more colorful or mixed, I think the inspiration from the famous “Sinfonia” from Bach's Christmas Oratorio is easily recognizable. The piece is based on my Prelude in E major I composed four years ago, already having that Christmas Pastorale style in mind. I’m glad that I now could realize the orchestration and be able to share it in this way.

Composed during the past couple of days. The quality varies considerably:

A piece with its own appeal. It reminds me of Satie in those broken open chords. I think the central part strays from his style. In any case, everyone can write as they please.

It is a strange minuet. The voices run parallel almost the entire time (except at the end, which sounds like music from another era). In a more or less gallant style, one expects a melody accompanied by counterpoint at will. In bar 67, something recognisable appears...

Nice piece and good sound of the instrument.

Hello! Here is the recording of two movements from my Sonatine in C. This piece was composed for two friends of mine in my theory class at conservatory, and we had a lot of fun putting the thing together. While not my largest or most important piece, it was an exercise in a kind of neoclassicist compositional style I've otherwise left behind. The middle movement of the piece wasn't performed due to time constraints on this recital, which is unfortunate because it forms the harmonic and metric hinge between the outer movements. Hopefully I will have a complete recording of the piece soon! In the mean time, I would love anyone's thoughts on the piece if y'all are willing to share! Score video

I share with you a musical quote from the book Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson by Gary Lachman who himself was a founding member of the rock group Blondie. The book is a biography of Colin Wilson, the author of The New Existentialism - a book I previously quoted above, as well as other famous titles such as The Outsider.

Hi! Here are my Two Lullabies for voice and piano. I finished them a couple of days ago for a high school friend of mine. The audio is a MIDI mockup -- I'm just looking for some feedback on the emotional affect of the pieces. Does the trajectory from the first (poem by Dunbar) to the second (poem by Blake) read on its own, or does it require an explanation? I would also love some thoughts on the harmony in this little set...

I thought about the rain, it just so happens to have rained last night and your piece fits today's mood spectacularly? If you want to develop that streak further, look no other way than Takemitsu's Rain named pieces: Rain Tree for three percussionists, Rain spell for mixed ensemble, Rain coming for chamber orchestra, Garden rain for brass

Love it!

Reminds me of Disney, and of Delius' A Mass of Life:

Here is my first submission (of two) to the YCF 2025 Christmas Event.

This is my first submission (of two) to the YCF 2025 Christmas Event. We are all awaiting (or at least the children do wait for) Christmas Eve. Since there are still a few days to go, the time should be peaceful and quiet – despite the stress and noise as it is in reality. Thus, the idea behind this piece is to imagine the night before Christmas, the church where crowds of people will gather tomorrow to celebrate Christmas Eve. The church is empty, or seems to be empty, but there are three musicians playing a piece that is reminiscent of either night music or a final rehearsal before the upcoming concert.