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Keats? I would NEVER set his little epitaph "This Living Hand;" very creepy, seeing as he died very young from Tuberculosis...or Gerard Manley Hopkins' "Terrible Sonnets:" they are quite terrible indeed, even though he is my favorite poet.

THIS is still at the top of the page? I think it is a decent setting. Maybe I should write more English Poetry settings. I could certainly set German, do some Lieder...not fluent in the Sprache, just working on basic conversational German, so I would have to analyze a German poem first before I could set it.

Actually decided that I have a soft spot for this little joke piece; very funny!🤣

Yes, the house mice I can never get rid of like to chew up my manuscripts for bedding; at least they have good "taste" in music! That's from my Bb Major Requiem; it is already in the computer. 😉That is from probably the weakest movement in that piece, anyway. My two pet rats are too polite to munch on my scores. One of them likes to hunt, slaughter, and devour any mouse he can catch though, Baby, my friend Jackie's rat, really.

My friend Jackie, piano sonata dedicee, had some wheezing and shortness of breath, she mentioned needing a new Albuterol inhaler, and I think she was worried enough about it to call EMS, but she does not live with me now, just down the street. I am more worried about her right now than music, though I am looking at some music just to take my mind off the situation until I know she is ok. No intimate relationship between us; I am eighteen years older, and very ugly in my old age!

Anyway, I dashed off this muck in two hours!🤣I guess it's not horrible for two hours. I am a pretty fast composer, but I need more than two hours!

Yes, full harmonic analysis of the entire Heiliger Dankegesang, full accounting of all non-harmonic tones! I don't mess with that sort of thing any more...🙃You should see my old study score of the late Beethoven quartets; I have trouble even reading the tiny, faded pencil.

Piece isn't great, at the time I thought it was for the fellow's dead grandmother, not sure the dying grandmother story was true now, though...☹️However, Kyrylo WAS a very intelligent, nice young man of 22. He could even make out Middle English and thought it was really cool, General Prologue of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, helped me with the few, three dozen or so Russian words I know! He didn't even ask for that much money, but I can't, and wouldn't have, given it to him. I can't come up with $900 ready cash! I just have my retirement account, and I sure as hell don't want to cash that out early and pay all those taxes! Loved my guitar Symphony-Concerto, and was shocked when I told him how long it takes to write something like that, 4-6 months...🫢Malenkey Malchik was quite impressed...

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Oh, you will reach the point where you don't even need to think of analysis anymore. Use the accidentals that are easiest; even if the music is complicated, make it as easy to read as possible.

Thank you! I am glad you found the notation and layout satisfying as well. I had some troubles to notate the atonal accidentals in the atonal section and in the went for what looked more beautiful and easier to read when playing. I only composed one piece in Amaj a couple of years ago. From then on, somehow I have only been able to compose mostly pieces in minor 😅 Thanks again, @Churchcantor !

Thak you so much @SergeOfArniVillage , I am really glad you liked it! I also considered mixing both sections but, to be honest, the main reason I started with the tonal section was because I lacked skills and ideas to keep the atonal section going. So before mixing atonal and tonal ideas I think I will need to learn much more about atonality (what makes it work and different techniques). Thanks for commenting!

Anyway, I really don't have anything else to post tonight, so you all are all safe.

Good Lord, Peter, the rules were because of me? I'M FAMOUS!🤩

I just do it without meaning to, been a while since I was in school, academic protocol...

By the way, we formulated these rules in response to your posts and activity on this forum. And that is because nobody else really has ever used (or rather abused LoL) the forum the way you are before and we felt the need to protect the forum from this kind of posting and "content".

Yes, just a haaainus aanalogy!🤣

nice a*alogy lol

Certainly nothing against you, Henry Ng, but it seems unnecessarily a*al sometimes, and I don't mean to offend your protocol.

It's good you take note of that. Henry

Hi, 林家興. First, I don't know how this piece hasn't received any comments in two months. It is absolutely delightful, from start to finish! Smooth and spunky, all at the same time. I'm not sure if this is a live recording or not, but the playback was terrific. I love jazzy melodies and chord progressions... and the way you pull off the key change so smoothly to the complement (from Ab to D) is very impressive. Hats off to you! Amazing piece. So glad you shared it with us (and I'm glad your brother liked it)! Best, Jordan

Hi, Izaak. I must say, I was transfixed listening to this piece! The sustained harmonies, the silky textures, the pulsating rhythms: it was masterfully crafted. Few things bring me more joy than experiencing a composer who's expressing himself in his own voice - and that's exactly what I felt here. In my opinion, you accomplished what you set out to do with this piece. It was at once anxious and grief-filled and restless, and yet somehow still very moving. Thank you so much for sharing with us! Best, Jordan

OK, whatever.

Hi @Churchcantor , I split your post from @Fruit hunter 's original post: I do this because we want to follow the rules in our forum etiquette: In rule 2b it says: We have this rule because by posting your own music under other members' post, it will 1) divert the original intention when the member wants some feedback on their own music rather than your music 2) causing your music to lose chances to be reviewed since it is posted under other members' posts 3) It is impolite to do so. I know that you only want to respond to other members' posts without malice. But you also need to know that this may cause some disturbance and dismay to them since you repeatedly post your own works to other members' posts without much discussion, thus they won't have much gain from your posting of your own work as a response. It would be better for you to just create your own post for your own work and then quote it under other members' posts. You are also to be reminded that if you keep posting your own piece of music to other members' posts in the way you do this time, you may receive warning points for that. Hope you understand that we clearly don't want to issue warning points to any members. Henry

Jesus, but you have a lot of time on your hands! Like me when I was actually in school as a Music Composition major. Carry on! I once got an A for a paper on Beethoven's Heiliger Dankegesang, in college. 🤣