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In your comment following my score analysis last week, you sent photos of an excerpt from a book detailing some orchestration stuff. Kvothe was asking if you know what book the photos were from.

I didn't quote a book, I'm sorry I'm lost

Seeing as my schedule will open up in the next few weeks, I suppose I will participate :)

The output is fantastic, you did a great job with the production quality. But when you post in these forums though, please be mindful and respectful of other people's critiques or opinions. Unless you specifically tell us otherwise in your post, you are essentially inviting us to be critical. And @Kvothe 's observation about your sheet music is 100%. It's clear you sequenced this in some other program though, and it appears you are using MuseScore for the output of the sequenced output. This would explain the engraving issues. With that said, the music itself, is beautiful! It instantly brings me back to the 80s!

This piece of music did it’s a really good job, capturing the quietness and beauty of the given landscape. It’s not really my cup of tea, but it’s relaxing and it gives the atmospheric feeling that you’re actually there. Melodic material. 7.5 Chords and texture 6.7 Structure 7.4 Originality 8.2 Engraving 9.7 Orchestration and playability 7 Execution 9.86 taste 5.2 Total 7.69

I would check out this out: The mist and this: Waltz Those only two pieces. There are other solo piano pieces on here. So stop now while you ahead. I have concert next week! Do you?

The one you quoted.

Very Good Well Done You've Set a Standard that's Hard to compete with.... By using only 3 Instruments, you've been able to create an inspiring, "MOOD".

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