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Damn, five measures or so is enough to tell me you know already how to write for strings. I could probably teach you something about double-stops and chords, but not much else. As the Germans say, Kein Problem! I'll listen to the rest later. You are a fine Neoclassical composer.

Oh, I guess my favorite violin concerto is either Tchaikovsky's or Mendelssohn's.

Well, who wrote perfectly for violin; Paganini? Violinist, play it! Liszt for piano? Even world-class pianists have to leave out a note or two.

I love Beethovens violin concerto. Actually is my favourite violin concerto. 🙂 Ok I'll post my 2 minuets here if you want to check and let me know .

Sure, post one! Even MY favorite composer, Beethoven, could not always write perfectly for violin, so of course I can't either. His violin concerto is a masterpiece, but has too many scales and arpeggios.

Thank you so much, my dear friend, for your willingness. For the time being, it’s not necessary, because I don’t really have the luxury of time to dedicate to it. With two small children and work, the time I have for composing is extremely limited. At most, I have 2 hours, and those are at midnight. In the meantime, I’ve written two minuets for string quartet and a divertimento for winds, again in a Mozartian style. If you’d like, I can post them and you can tell me your opinion. For a first attempt, I did quite well—it was a respectable effort.

And you say you love chamber music but are scared because you feel you are unfamiliar with the instruments as compared to piano, which you play very well and tastefully? I could teach you to write for violin in an afternoon, with both of us sharing a few beers! Guitar is harder, but I keep writing guitar music anyway.

Thank you so much my dear friend. I'm so glad that you like it 🙏

Good Lord, but you can write a waltz, a good one I mean! Highlight of my morning so far.

A drum band in the streets some dancing an a guy with an electric guitar

I don't really know what's considered virtuosic in the bassoon? Maybe lots of big rapid leaps across the register break? Apparently Vivaldi wrote 39 bassoon concerti! So they may be a good place to start for inspiration. Meanwhile I've added some new material for the bassoon, so it's more prominent. Not quite sure what to do with the new coda? Maybe it could be longer; or perhaps keep it short and sweet?

Corrections have been made, both on this regard and the counterpoint of the coda. Thank you both kindly for pointing it out.

In fact, I am not! I was considered as a child prodigy even by my teachers though.

Thought I would share this as an ongoing project. I will be jumping into the development section soon. This is my first serious work for full scale orchestra. As many will know from my other work I tend to focus on chamber music. I hope it is engaging (I have been experimenting a little how I can keep the listener on edge with sudden, unexpected harmonic shifts and contrasting dynamics).

Well, this is a nice piece! Not my usual cup of tea, but I like it anyway. Are you Asian? Don't mean to be racial; we are all human! Just sounds that way, pentatonic. Orchestration very good.

Well, that sounds like Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; a German singing in French. I'm sure he had some French, probably more than me, mon tres cher ami! Of course, the pronunciation is correct: He was a musician, after all!😆

I only listened to so far the first few measures of each, and all I can say so far is that both will be competent compositions! I can look at a score even without trying to hear it in my head and tell just by the layout if the counterpoint, part writing is correct, after 38 years of writing music. This is no criticism of you by any means, but the unnatural exaggeration of dynamics in music software programs is one of the reasons that while my paper manuscripts have dynamics, expression marks, and bowings for string instruments, etc, I never mess with these when I enter music into my site, Noteflight. I will revisit these, my interest is perked. You are obviously trained.

The low A is not present on the Oboe .... You can score it for Oboe D'Amore which has a low A in the scale or as been said English Horn. Maark

You could try musescore. It allows you to write 'interpretations' by hiding notes. You could also have it really plain by not adding anything. Controls are all simple. It is also completely free. The layout could be changed. Sadly, It is laggy when you write over 500 bars for me.

Thank you! It does!

The string pizz. reminded me of this. It's kind of unrelated, but you might dig it if I haven't already shown it to you lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dPpbYlW0pQ&list=PL1649A3A736810FFC&index=4 This is really cool, I think the instrumentation is wise as well. It doesn't have the sense of wonder like the Donkey Kong music, it's more foreboding to me. Maybe like exploring the wreckage of a sunken ship, or scanning for alien-like creatures at the depths of the ocean floor. Very mysterious and tranquil, but still the sense of danger. I think the lumatone gets a bit repetitive, maybe it's just me? I suppose some spots you could crank the dynamics way down, or break up the flow of it during one of the string parts. I'm just imagining it being looped, but if it's background enough I think it works. The part itself IS very cool, it really works with the microtonal writing. Idiomatic and picturesque. Just initial impressions! I'm still not convinced of microtonal music, but I admire your journey and like your writing style with it. 🙂

Wanting to create a washy-choral sounding prelude for the ensemble to play before my Oboe comes in... I have Fm/Ab - Dbm6/Ab- Abmaj7 - Cm7-Fm9 - any ideas to keep this sound going?

I am so pleased you enjoyed the work!!!! I'll correct the oversight .................. Mark

Any tips or suggestions?