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My favorite Scherzi would have to be this: Chopin: Scherzo Op.20 No.1 in B minor I love the thematic materials that chopin uses in this one. How those themes transform throughout the entire composition. It just amazing.

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Luigi Cherubini - String Quartet No. 1 in Eb major - Scherzo

Whichever path you feel would be best for you, take it! If you need advice or assistance moving forward, DM me. I wouldn’t mind hopping in a Discord call with you and working on it together 🙂

Very good advice here. Thank you for your feedback. I’m overjoyed and very thankful that you enjoyed many aspects of the piece, AND pointed them out to me. It helps to know what I’ve done right and what I can subsequently improve upon later. I hope you get a great restful night of sleep! Thanks, Omicron!

Uh. Yes 🤣🤣 thank you for your feedback! And I’d have to disagree on the first section, respectfully. I noticed a theme with my compositions, and this one isn’t particularly different from my approach to the rest, when I step back and look at it; I tend to start out with a slow, melodic introduction, that then graduates to a more robust/intense motif, concluding to the originally introduced feel. I was aiming for a suspenseful, and drawn out start to the short story that I was writing here. also thank you for adding in the corrections. I must have missed those on that last pass I made over it to correct accidentals for voice leading accuracy. Thanks Henry!

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Hello there, unfortunately untill today I only have the ability to make from mobile, when it comes to the piano I find the sound very good enough for a mobile app so at this point there is no much problem for me, the thing I want to change is to study the instrument and music theory and master them one day, my time and my wealth at this point are not enough to do, so I'm doing what I'm doing with my own way and thank you a lot for your appreciation for my music!

Hello @M. Gomes Santos, I must say your Toccatina was truly a treat. I thorough enjoy it. Now off to review: Harmony I love how the harmonic colors you choose through this piece. There are well established harmonic points, for sure. I.e. my favorite is at the end of the piece. It is has to such a humorous touch to entire piece. I also love the gliss. Then, you have clusters...here and there. It definitely takes on journey. Form: This is a free form piece. Thus, I can comment on musical structure. But I can say...the melodic form is well thought and flows nicely. Bravo. I truly nothing else to say. You have done great job. I want to hear more. 🙂

Why hello there. I notice you have upload a lot works. However, we can not provide feed back until you give a score. Cheers.

Hello everyone. I have decided to take several steps back from string quartet and write simple minuet for piano. I figured this way it is great way to practice for me to melodic form and counterpoint. Let me know what you think. I am planning to do entire suite of dances! either for solo piano or for something larger. 🙂

Sometimes I put things away for a while. Sometimes I don't come back to them because they really weren't working, but something else will. Oh, well. There's always the next one... 🙂

I have learned a very important lesson. Although it is important to push our creativity, some times it we try too hard we might fail. I need to learn by doing string quartet that pushes my creativity to hard. I need to take small steps. There was no cohesiveness to it. It was compelete mess. 🙂

sounds like it sounds illegal

@UncleRed99 I think what happened i tried too hard to use modern harmony methods and...oi...I am no Stanisnky. I need to start with tonal harmony, first. Thus I agree with @Omicronrg9 I probably either 1) how can savage this sinking sink 2) or write a new piece.

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Hello, Thank you for listening and for your time! I will try to respond to your comments in order: You're right that the second part doesn't have the classic Lento character, but almost none of the slow parts of my compositions adhere to the conventions of Lento 😅 The conclusion was intentionally ambiguous to a certain extent. I wanted a more open ending 🙂 The form is not fixed. Although you may find the composition quite accessible, many people struggle with my compositions. This is mainly due to the irregular rhythms and polyrhythms. I don't usually attach sheet music to the recordings in the interest of preserving the mental health of the listeners, as they are quite chaotic 😂 Anyway, thanks again for your review, I really, really appreciate it!

Hi @HoYin Cheung! The use of extended technique is flawless and well fitting to the Halloween mood, and the style is very much Bartokian with some very percussive passages (the col legno). I really like the F section. The strings sound very much like an organ itself which fits to be "In a church"! Very professional scoring and engraving as well. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hey Kyle @UncleRed99! I am going to agree what @Omicronrg9 said wholeheartedly, as I enjoy this one very much. This one sounds very seamless in creating the spooky dancing mood of a Halloween in the fast sections. And this one has some sadness in it too. If an accordion (the main instrument of @Omicronrg9) is added in the score it can be a totally beautiful Spanish dance. I really like the opening Andante section for its emotions. However, for a Halloween piece I think it's a bit too beautiful and tragic to be here! I may just cut the entire section out and have it developed as an individual piece, and start this piece right at rehearsal mark B! Or I will at least make the A section a bit more spooky to fit into the festival! The B section is a wonderful mix of sadness, spookiness and a bit of fun with the dance rhythm. B.36 with the polyrhythm even weirdly reminds me of the first movement of Mahler's 2nd!! I absolutely love your usage of Bassoon and bass clarinet. They really enhance the grotesque mood of the piece. Beware of the Cb in b.40, they should be B natural. The C# in b.66 should be Db. Thx very much for sharing this wonderful piece to us Kyle! P.S. I am sure you brain flows into my own Sextet right? Say Yes!!!!! Henry

Hey Damniel my boy @Omicronrg9! This one is goddamn grotesque my man. The beginning is a bit frightening as fitting to a Halloween themed music, nice repeated pizzicato motive used on the violin. But to me what stands out is after the first section in b.31 when an innocent Mozart k.331 like theme appears. Even it starts normal, I still don't believe its apparent naivety, and you mix that apparently naive theme so well with the Halloween grotesque mood with those dissonant but not overly dissonant harmonies, making the music somewhat dragging between naivety and evil like a darkened version of Alice in the Wonderland. This feeling is amazing to portrayed to be honest. I like starting from b.92 all these elements are put tighter together for an even more exciting and wonderful contest of moods. Maybe adding some glissandos in the violin and flutter tongue in flute will make the music even more evil. Thx very much for this weirdly wonderful piece! Henry

Hi @Demertzis! I will say this one is more like a Waltz than an Etude, as this will be too easy for an etude haha! But it's a nice and short G sharp minor waltz nonetheless. Henry

Hi @Petr Kopuletý! The 1st mov sounds very funny with the offbeat rhythms as well as fleeting harmonies. I would hope to the music invite some moments when the rhythm and harmony become more static. In the 2nd movement the interesting rhythm remains though the mood is somewhat a bit less fleeting and volatile. It sounds like a dance to me. I don't think the tempo fits "Lento" marking; it's more Andante to me given how the "con moto" feeling appears here. The 3rd movement reminds me of some Japanese Anime music and somewhat the style of @ferrum.wav's music, with a somewhat more light-hearted style comparing the prior two movements. It even gives me some improvisatory feeling, sometimes with abrupt shifts of mood and rhythm between different sections. The ending sounds inconclusive to me though. Is the music in any musical form? I personally don't find it too demanding to listen to but will welcome your self analysis of your own music haha. I think of your style a less dissonant Prokofiev. Will be great if you can provide a score as well! Great job as an 18-year old! For sure you write better than when I was 18 haha. Thx for sharing your music! Henry

Welp, we have a clear front-runner here. Man, this piece is almost flawless. The only thing that comes to mind I could point out would be that the Segno could be better marked. It's not that the way most software and people usually do it is bad, but I myself found it's quite good (performer-wise, reader-wise and lastly it's a matter of tastes) to mark it with segno bars &/or a rectangle surrounding the segno symbol. Example here: . Just a suggestion. The piece itself as I was sayin' was very enjoyable to me. It's fluid, its structure works, you know how to connect the dots very neatly. The instrument choice is very good as well. I like how you don't need to deviate from tonality to get the spooky feeling you. It reminds me of PvZ OST at times, and at other times, you remind me of another composer whose work I have listened to a lot, Paul F. Page. The instrument entries are very balanced, you're stepping into solid ground! What I liked the most though, the return to the segno al fine. It's seamless. The score is alright, perfectly readable... Little I have found to be worth mentioning (I'm very sleepy though so my writing capabilities are diminished). Some overlaps here and there, misplaced dynamics due to software being stupid by default, but nothing else. Congratulations, UncleRed. My kudos. A long day awaits, may you sleep as well as this piece was enjoyed by my brain. Kind regards!