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oh wow! I'll definitely listen to this later when I have time... Thx for joining the forum! Henry

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Hello everyone, I'll give this forum a try - discovered it after watching Henry Ng's video on the 2nd movement of his 2nd piano sonata. Here are the first three movements of my first symphony (and my first piece of decent quality, hence C. 1). If anyone is interested, one can follow my channel to see when the fourth movement will be up. Comments and feedback are always appreciated.

This sounds like minecraft music, and i mean that in the best way possible. Very pretty, and so is your collage art!

@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu Thank you for the review! Ugh i knowwww i just love it so much. I'll have to find a way to get a similar sound but playable... I'm afraid i don't hear what you mean - which one is the augmented second in that bar? I just see minor thirds I know i really wrote myself into a corner in those places haha Thanks again for the feedback, i'll keep all this in mind for future pieces!

Just thought I'd post an earlier version of this piece, performed by me on my electric piano. Sorry the sound quality's so awful! You can hear the piano keys clattering throughout. Think the rubato is better though? This version is mostly Uematsu's original, with some of my own added material.

I think not more than you, he can’t give likes to all the pieces as you do haha.

His majestic late quartets are regarded as indecipherable, uncorrected horrors too. Idiotic critics. Sometimes you really don’t have to care what others said towards your music. My C sharp minor Piano Sonata was called random not only once but so what, they don’t Kurt it and I quite don’t care to be honest hahahaha.

Most people here are students, and it's the end of the semester. They're busy, but luckily, we have decades-old-posts to keep you entertained. Cheers, friend! 💋

YOUR DOING IT AGAIN....................LEAVE ME ALONE............................Your the one Spamming ME. Its obvious why theres been a dramatic decrease in forum activity, and people resorting to answer Decade -Old-Posts. As a Moderator your Judgments are Flawed.

Ah, sorry, didn't mean to hurt your feelings. If I thought you should be banned, I would have done it already. Also, I'm not sure you know what spam is 🙂

From day 1 , you have been following me around like a Puppy.................I dont Mind , he he.............. Tributes & Recreations to Composers living or Dead, are posted Thoughout This Forum since it was Launched, & mine are no different. If your intention is to get me Banned...........................then ask The ADMINS, i think there the only ones qualified to make that Decision. But regarding my posts being Spammy ?....................

what?

You appear to have to much time on your hands ?

laziness

I lol'd at the ending 😄 Congrats, this is now begrudgingly stuck in my head. How dare you craft such an invasive little earworm 😛

Hey there Your posts are becoming a bit spammy. Maybe try going into greater (or just some) detail of the purpose of your posts. What are you doing to other people's music that makes it post worthy? If it's production technique, I'd mention the steps involved. I mean, we have youtube to listen to these tracks already. #composesomethingoriginal

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@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu No problem I don't think it is careless at all haha! Yes I'm using Musescore 4! Might try some of the librairies they added on musehub in the future but for this project I sticked to the regular musesounds.

Hi @Jonathanm! I relisten the whole piece according to yout analysis. Now following your analysis the motives are quite apparent, sorry for my carelessness haha! Probably if you can leave the score here the thematic coherence can be more easily spotted on, as the image in the YT video is a bit blurred haha! Or you can provide the analysis under your video as well, it isn't boring at all, in the contrary it helps us to get more deeply into the music! Btw I want to ask, do you use Musescore 4 here for the audio? Feel free to review othet members' works here as well! Thx for sharing and joining us! Henry

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@FILMSCORE Thank you very much for your messages! I am teaching piano at the moment, but I have to be honnest... right now I'm not sure where composition is going to lead me. I don't think I want to work in the film industry but never say never! Have a great day Jonathan

@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu Thank you very much for your nice comment! I understand why many parts feel all new from a listener perspective and that is something I have to work on. From my perspective they are not and I can provide a very short analyse. The introduction motive at bar 1 with the strings is the same that start the first cellos solo which is then reused in the fanfare theme. It is reused in some other places but sometime transformed a little bit. At B you have the main theme that you can hear until the clarinet solo. The idea of the introduction is repeated in the begining of G, which then lead to a longer lyrical section at H, which is reminescent of the first cello solo of the piece, altough pretty different I concede! Then this lead to another fanfare section where the brass reuse the same motive from the initial fanfare and the strings have a mix of this motive and the main theme. This lead to the real return of the main theme at J, which is pretty similar to B. For the rest of the piece you can hear these two motives almost everywhere but again it is not striking I concede. F section, as well as the bass clarinet solo, are based on the melodic material from the transition b.38-43. (Sorry for this long message I hope you were not too bored by this analyse... 😅)! Thanks again and have a great day Jonathan

Definitely. That's important too. i think I was suggesting more that if a composer matches your preferences and listening expectations because they truly resonate with you and that's just the music they compose when they're focusing on what's beautiful for them, this would lead to a more satisfying experience of both composing and listening than if the composer was putting aside what they find beautiful in order to specifically meet your expectations. I suspect there's not a lot of difference between what we're both saying.

Yeah. Well thats a big big philosophical difference. While I certainly regard music (at its best) as a form of self expression, there is a tremendous amount of theory and historical experience to learn and draw from. Or not. Myself, I've never regarded music as anything less than a shared communication between composer/musicans and an audience -- I have expectations and likes/dislikes when I select/listen to music. I only assume others are the same. So, while as a practical matter I write for myself, I would like to think I am communing with this vast spring of muscial history and ideas to the extent that I strive to understand and learn from it. Does it make me uncomfortable? Absolutely. But I can attest that in the uneasiness, the growth happens.