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I still think it's the best piano piece I ever wrote, in 38 years. I am 56. When are they going to kick me off this site for not being a "Young Composer?" Young at heart, I guess.

Hi all! As the Halloween season creeps closer, I decided to produce a small, ultra-short film rooted in my love of the holiday. A couple years ago I produced a similar short featuring some of these same characters, which I did also share on here. This is a pseudo-sequel to that video as well. I would love to hear your thoughts, feedback, and such! I did submit this to a local film festival and will hear back soon on if my submission was accepted. It was fun trying to play with some different things sonically, especially with the introduction of the theremin into the mix. While trying to go from an almost cartoony sound and look at the beginning, to a more sinister one at the end. Hope you enjoy the watch/listen!

Henry, you may play this piece with the repeats or not, but I do think it is more temporarily balanced WITH the repeats.

Let it come naturally. "When the gentlemen can think of nothing else to say, and can go no further, they swiftly call in a diminished seventh chord, and their troubles are soon ended." Beethoven.

...or a better singer!

Orchestrate this:

Schumann orchestration? Contrary to legend, Schumann was not a bad orchestrator. Workaday, like Brahms. Not a colorist like Mahler, Ravel, let's see...Rimsky -Korsakov? Just keep working, but only when you feel like it. That would be my advice, and it is what I do. Great exercise to orchestrate a Schumann piano piece, and piano music in general is hard to orchestrate.

Thanks! there are like two mistakes before the bass comes in but it's kinda lowkey.. Yeah maybe it could benefit from a change of rhythm in the bass. I kinda like that it sounds simple in the piano version but surely as an orchestral piece it would be more serious and complex.

This is so unique in such a familiar format. I see see this representing a chaotic character for sure! And I don't think you're using microtones here but for some reason it sounds like you are lol. Very fun to listen to, and great job at keeping it interesting throughout.

Hi, I don't know about Jewish influences, maybe the phrasing suggests that. This could be related to Finnish 20th century romanticism (such as Oskar Merikanto) or finnish folk songs (unless I'm mistaken).

@therealAJGS so far i've finished 9 variations, theme, 1 - 5 is the first section, 6 - 9 is the 2nd section (9 is just an orcrhestration of "The Legend"), and after is the finale, which i haven't started anything yet. the whole piece currently sits at 17 minutes. i plan to do 3 - 5 rapid ones after the 2nd section.

how many variations are you going to make?

Lovely and simple

Sounds great at least for as much as what the title suggests. Jewish influence?

Thanks Peter, I'll give that a try. In the meantime, I've made a few tweaks to the piece, and added some extra material. Hopefully this makes the transitions sound a bit smoother.

Also some description of Variation 3: It's in 3/4. Tempo will be a metric modulation: the quarter note will be the same length as the 8th note from the 2nd variation.

Yeah I really want to emphasize the note repetitions and use the toms again, also the motif at the end with the xylophone is the transition towards the next variation. I'll be using that motif a lot (comes from the first 5 notes of the theme, and is the first 5 notes of "The Legend," whose materials appear a lot in "Dark Sanctuary," makes sense in the context of chapter 4). Dude you've been consistently commenting on my progress and I appreciate every single one of 'em!!!!

Hello my friend @PeterthePapercomPoser Thank you so much for your attention. You are totally right. Schubert and Schumann are the composers who influences me most. But in general all my compositions my goal is to create my own voice through my influences. Also my sonatas in Binary form is where I think my own voice shine. Inspired from scarlatti sonatas I put also and my other influences. Mozart , schubert etc . So my goal is to write as many I can . Ill try to post some of them today and Ill be glad for you to check it. Yes I play all my compositions . I have pianoteq8 plugin so I record myself through garageband 🙂 Thank you so much again and I'm glad that you like my little bagatelle 🙂

This one was intended as a kind of character piece. Honestly, I was watching the new season of Wednesday Addams and the music from the show inspired this. LoL There's dynamics in this that hopefully a Clavichord would be better able to perform. Thanks to @Alex Weidmann for his input about how to get the Violin to play classic phrasing rather than portamento! I would appreciate any kind of feedback, comment, critique, suggestion or observation that you may have. Thanks for listening and I hope that you enjoy!

wait how is this possible.. I had the same idea but instead of ghosts experimented animals. I'm going to make a horror game out of it. (the same one "this song took me 2 months, here's what happened" and "horror" was from)

Very good! Make a symphony out of the thing!

Hi! thanks for the reply. I kind of am but with the two instruments at the start i tried to give the illusion one of the instrument's melody's was different than it actually was.

Only Weber could write for clarinet. A bit of late Mozart and Brahms. Carry on!

Hi @therealAJGS! This sounds really spooky and unnerving because of the harmony. It seems like maybe you are combining sounds without really any regard for what harmonies they might create together. The harmony is what makes the mood/vibe of the song what it's meant to be, not the instruments or the samples. It does sound kinda ambient though with the high reverb. Thanks for sharing!

Hi @shirz! I didn't hear any mistakes in the beginning. I definitely can imagine it orchestrated and it kinda reminds me of the epic and heroic main theme from Chrono Trigger that plays after the title screen. Although I think in an orchestration, there should be some kind of change of texture to give the ear a break from the constant bass notes. Leaving some parts out at strategic places for a pause would give a welcome relief. Great job and thanks for sharing!