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I stood it. It's not bad at all, but a bit directionless to my taste. I suppose that it happens a lot more than I realise with incidental music? I don't know. There were bits that I liked more, others not so much. Again, if I had to point something out, it would be the lack of dynamics throghout the whole piece. A new dimension of nuances awaits there. Hope noteflight would improve the playback system, but it's not that bad anyway if you've enjoyed OSTs from 90s-00s videogames. In fact it kind of rings a bell in that regard. Despite of the seemingly random pauses, the music itself has some continuity. I liked specially the M84-M92. But a question arises: why keeping the key of this piece if it diverts that far away from it? I myself do that as well, but I'm just curious about your thoughts. Finally, I did like the add9 in that Eb at the end. It's a bit contrasting, sounds like the bad trip is over. Regards!

Average: 8.25 Above Average

Average: 7.875 Standard

I think that this is great! I really like rondo form. That is an advantage for you. Seems like a scherzo, but not scary or sinister.

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Español/Spanish ¡Hola! ¡Bienvenidos a los Foros de Jóvenes Compositores! En fin, siempre me gusta empezar por lo positivo. Has usado distintos niveles de dinámica y disonancia (estoy empezando a ver un patrón). Encuentro una secuencia clara que se repite a lo largo de la música. ¡Muy bien!

Very original piece of music.

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I gave a high level of originality because it has very original thoughts, like a beautiful mess. YOU EVEN WROTE A SHORT PARAGRAPH ABOUT THE MUSIC?! Definitely 10 out of 10. Beautiful melodies. ABA is Boring...

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@PeterthePapercomPoser Kind of hurts, but I see where you're coming from

Hi again @Tunndy! I've watched all your "orchasrations" so far and I have to ask: are you learning anything from this process? It seems like all you're doing is importing midi's of the piano pieces into an orchestra template and copying and pasting the different parts into various instruments, essentially just doubling the parts, mostly in the same register as the original. But there's so much more to orchestration. In your orchestrations, you always include the piano part in the final finished orchestration, but I think a real test of whether you can effectively turn piano pieces into orchestra pieces would be if you excluded the piano from the orchestration. Let's see if the orchestration can stand on its own, without the piano! There were plenty of opportunities in this piece to use the string orchestra really dynamically, to create something that is quite different from the original piano piece. Like when Debussy stacks the F and Ab dyads in various registers, each an octave higher than the previous: I think you could have used the string orchestra really dynamically here by using the Violas, 2nd Violins, and 1st Violins to sustain those dyads and create a rich chord. That's just one example. But I don't think you're learning any of these techniques with the way you're orchestrating these pieces. And, honestly, I find your "orchastration" videos kinda cringe. 😕 Thanks for sharing though and if you do learn something from doing this then by all means, keep going!

English/Inglés Hi there! Welcome to the Forums of Young Composers! Anyways, I always like to start with the positives. You have used various amounts of dynamics, and dissonance (I am starting to see a pattern here). I find a clear sequence that is repeated throughout the music. Very good!

Nice Quintet! I find a lot of dissonance used, nice! Sadly, it is slightly boring to me. Otherwise, it is good!

https://musescore.com/user/96214813/scores/28339009. This is my work. It is a theme of variations piece of music. It has a length of exactly 5 minutes. It consists of an introducion, a theme, and thirteen variations (coda in last variation). It is written for two pianos and a violin, and it also has a cadenza for both types of instruments.

i'll join i guess.

@Maxthemusicenthusiast has also submitted music!

I do hereby proclaim mine intent to partake in this noble contest.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1TZJ7a6jue0wpKBrUJ4AWOg8HYsBcfwSd?usp=sharing This is my submission for the 2025 Halloween Composition Competition, Woodwind Quintet No. 1. When I composed the fast section of the piece, it had a bossa nova feel. I liked this feel enough to want to develop it further. I decided to slow it down in sketch form, and the result was something that sounded like a happy-go-lucky, yet sinister, ice cream truck.

I declare my intent to participate in this competition.

Hey @gaspard! Nice Saltarellos! I know tennis is listed as one of your hobbies, but why does it always seem like you're dressed in tennis clothes when you record your videos? LoL! First one - I like how quickly you can cycle through different seemingly unrelated keys in this kind of style of writing. I like the timbral change in the second one that you bring about by the change from the very low to the very high register of the instrument. But besides the sudden register change in the beginning all the other changes are done very smoothly. The third one has some cool canonic imitation between the hands. Thanks for sharing!

I don’t have the score for all three of these so bear with me. unfortunately my videography sucks too and i think i often record in a way that makes the instrument sound pingy. anyway, tell me which one you hate the least