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Thanks! I can't figure out what you mean by "3rd TS"? Google says it might have something to do with 3/4 time signature which I don't think is what you meant. Or that it could have something to do with the Three French Hens in "The 12 Days of Christmas" song? Thanks for your review!

Hello everyone, as I work on a solo piece, I though I would share my favorite Piano works: 1. Pictures at the exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky! 2. Beethoven Sonatas. 3. Bach works for the keyboard 4. Chopin's preludes, waltz, etc. 5. Rachmoninov preludes, musical moments.. 6. Ravel and debusy (I have to group them together) 7. Brahms, Schubert, and Schumann There are more: but this is just one layer. I would like to hear yours.

Nice piece! Really appreciate your effort! It seems like the 3rd TS sometimes, but very Haydn, and perhaps some Mozart and Beethoven.

Haha. Thanks my friend

I may write a short piece for Xmas too Please count me in too!

@Vonias did you use Cantai?

Why hello there @J. Lee Graham! And we are off: In the first four bars, the sentences has been established between the interaction of the strings and the oboe. The presentation in b1-2 then continual b3-4 followed liquidation that leads into the transition. Yes, we all know it is peculiar term. Schoenberg was the first to coin it. Then we all learned. *sigh*. The transition, I think, starts at b13? Do you us a MC? nope. MC is denied. This happens in sonata form. We do not hear when the Secondary starts; it just a smooth transition. Then we have the closing section, which wraps the exposition. I like how it brings us to start. The devoplment is nice reminder of the themes from the expo. it is never stays on a key. Nice job. Over all, I say,..this a great start.

@Vasilis Michael What a nice treat this is to see a handwritten draft of your sonata! I wish I saw. Alas, I did not. Oh well. I still enjoy the humor behind it. Can wait to see what is next.

I've had this idea of composing music all my life, but I really haven't thought of it in terms of just jumping into it, but instead thought you just go to music academy to learn those things. I'm currently studying for a math degree and don't think I'll have time to learn music the usual way, so I thought about learning. Maybe from courses on the internet? Or is there a site that teaches all these things. My focus is just composing classical music, focusing on piano. Any recommendations on where to start?

This is a music about a girl left behind by her father after he was killed by a gang along with their entire settlement raided and people killed and some captured but the girl escaped and is now alone and tries to find refuge looking for people that will accommodate and she can trust.

Italian? That sounds pretty cool and posh, haha. Appreciate it! ^_^

hello wow another WIP?? and you havent even finished that symphonic variations and the piano suite?? well thankfully this piece is done, and i just need to fully score the thing and do some finishing touches. this is a vocal work for soprano, oboe, tenor sax., celesta, piano, violin, viola, and cello. the song is from an internet ARG/webseries, called Interloper, based around the Source game engine. i took the song's original melody and just develop the ever living fck out of it. vocal is from a voice synthesizer, singer: Sonata (http://utau.wikidot.com/utau:sonata) the form is....eh...yeah. but hopefully it's coherent. -------------------------------------------------------- INTRODUCTION. (b. 1-121) > introduces the themes, containing three sections: 1st (b. 1-44) and 3rd (b. 97-121) sections are the same. the 2nd section (b. 45-96) is a variation/development of a motif from the previous section (the first three notes). i call it the "Look to the sky" motif, very important, appears everywhere. the oboe part of the 3rd section (b. 103) introduces the B section as a counterpoint. TRANSITION (b. 122-136), variation of intro first section. A. (b. 137-204) > pretty much the combination of the intro's three sections. vocal entrance (b. 151). 2nd section of the intro are woven and augmented between the vocal melodies. sax part at b. 180 is the B section, again, as a counter point. the vocal part sings a lot of the motif's variation. TRANSITION (b. 205-219), same as the previous one, different instrumentation -------------------------------------------------------- and that's the end for this WIP. lemme know what ya think! (ost starts at 29:50, lyrics appear at 30:09)

since this part is rigid, very busy with the eighth notes, and has fragmented melody, maybe the next section could be in higher register, dominated by sustained chords, with a longer legato melody for contrast? or it could go the other direction and be very heavy, lower register-y stuff. and thenn maybe for the repetition, you could combine the two characteristics of both sections into one: having the driving force of the eighth notes while simultaneously have the underlying sustained harmony. this is just my interpretation however, just options that i've thrown spontaneously. but i hope they could help!

i really love the interplay between the instruments here. the way the themes and counterpoints are bounced around the three instruments is also really playful. the ending tied the piece neatly and satisfyingly. it matched the vibe of the whole piece well. it's cool how you used the two modes (mixolydian and pentatonic minor) to differentiate between the sections. i especially really like the second theme. thanks for sharing !!!

sounds like a video game theme. cool.

@MJFOBOE thanks for checking it out. I'll have to look again and see if I can create some more obvious places for breath, especially in the last movement.

You definitely have a style here. I enjoyed the prelude very much! Mark

Hi all, here is a composition I began in 2011. I rediscovered it in my computer files and decided to rework it and give it some new life. Hope you enjoy the work. All comments welcome as usual.

The Oboe writing is very accessible ..... a few judicious breathing places would be welcome though. Mark

This piece has an (Italian) cinematic feel to it ..... paints an interesting moment for sure! Mark

Ok, thank you for your feedback.

Hello! I was working on a piano piece after I had an idea but I didn't have any direction for the song or an idea of what I wanted to do after the main part. It'd be nice if you gave a suggestion. [idk what else to write, have a good day :)]

Hi my dear readers, it's me again. I don't understand many things here, but first things first. Imagine that I say this piece is evidently made by AI. It would be very easy to prove me wrong, @Vonias. Instead of submitting .mid files, a better, more detailed description of the process you followed would have clarified all posters here of what you did and what you have not done with it. Personally I don't care a single bit about that but we'll get to that point later. Please, consider that you are in a place filled by trained & experienced musicians and some of us have passed hundreds of hours listening to pieces just to give feedback out of either a brief or a more in-depth analysis. For some, not specifying that you were helped by an AI to make a better recording of your work and ambiguously describe it or talk about it with phrases like: may very well lead to confusion and even anger among others who consciously decided against using this tools in order to participate in an event in which ultimately your compositional ability is what we want people to show off, review and comment. Various AI tools exist to "help" with that recognition, but they are still in beta (mostly) and their own creators advise against using them as reliable methods. I took the liberty to pass the audio to some, despite you confirmed that the recording is AI: It basically says "Pure AI" 90% and provides a model. Tell me —if you want— if it hit it, this will make this developer's work better. But the thing is that you say everything else is not AI-generated. And this is where we get into trouble here. There are two different pieces here. A pdf submitted along the creation of the post that has little to do with the final mp3 you provided and the score that apparently resembles the mp3, according to you, 1:1? What's exactly the relation between the first and second scores? I can see some, let's say "adventurous" chords in the first score but not that many in the second. First score is half the size, begins with a different voicing. Rhythms don't really coincide, lyrics rest at different places "angel____ vs. an-gel cries___" . Midis are all over the place but you can clearly see the difference. Just pointed out some. What @AngelCityOutlaw is pointing out is mostly in the right direction but: That would not work. You need a seed too. If you do that yourself twice with the same material (and without fixing the seed) you'll get different things if you don't specify the same seed to the model, whatever it be. It happens with music, but also with LLMs and Image & video generators. And there are various tools to treat, import and export midis. Generating high-quality products using it is a whole 'nother story yes, but we ain't talking about one here, this is a <1 minute composition. Finally let me tell you that I don't mind if you just made the whole thing via AI, a part, or whatever. I would prefer you and anybody else in that situation to be honest and clarify things from the beginning to the rest of us who most likely are prone to and will have a listen to your piece, perhaps even giving some also honest feedback in exchange. Regarding that, the audio doesn't seem quite fitting. The strange autotune sound that the AI apparently gives to the singers sometimes and the strange cuts in vibrato feel off. The piece lacks development but it's a short "poem" more or less, right? For more info on this topic of using AI to make/export/import music on many formats, an AI that I have enslaved using a rectangular plastic card that spits money, may show you the way. Or maybe not, who knows: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/can-suno-or-similar-programs-e-2dN_8OipSNCC93.FtFGJoA?sm=d#0 Perhaps I'm late to the party, but these are my two cents. Sorry for my possible typos in advance... I am too sleepy. Regards!

Also something else I need to say about this: So I, and others, can put in hours of work writing the music, orchestration, making detailed mockups, etc. but a guy who writes a Suno prompt and has a "piece" in 5 minutes is treated as equally-valid in this event? It isn't actually even his music. Where is the "fun" in that, exactly? Why even bother? You guys say you want more people to do reviews. What your reviews are going to become if this kind of thing is permitted is a bunch of people being like "Nice prompt bro, but I would've said 'romantic soaring strings' instead of 'cinematic'".

Merry christmas