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Thanks for your feedback. I'm here to have peers pointing at flaws that I have not noticed yet. This way I can improve faster. I don't consider figuration as a true accompaniment, like the counterpoint in bass. The aim of the exercise is to keep the (imposed) figuration (in the middle voice) mostly constant throughout the piece, so that it doesn't distract from the melody and the counterpoint. All but with some changes at key points, to avoid monotony. Which I did. I found that 3 variations of the motive with that fast & complex figuration was enough. All my exercises so far are without dynamics or accents, and for sure they lack it and are just exercises, not finished pieces. Yes there was a lot of harmonic potential to develop from this motive. In the same exercise, I had 2 other figurations to apply with that motive, but it is this figuration that made a strong effect on me. So I wanted to explore and develop the harmony the way it makes sense to me.

Hi everyone, I finished a new piano piece called Cloud Ame and wanted to share. I hope you enjoy listening and welcome any feedback! Thank you

Nick, I really like this arrangement and am looking for something with this instrumentation for an upcoming concert. Could I purchase a copy from you? Thanks, -Christopher

Hello I've recently decided to take orchestration seriously. Just as I did with counterpoint back in the day... Yes, although I study on my own, I have always been self-taught, at some point you need guidance from an expert. So I am taking a course in orchestration. It is really for a very small group (only four people), which means the feedback is very powerful, as each person's work is reviewed in depth. I've learned a lot about the classical style (paradigm: Mozart). Why and for what purpose each thing is used. And here I share my version (reviewed by my teacher) of the orchestration of the first movement of Mozart's Piano Sonata No. 5. Now I'm working on Mendelssohn.

Hello This aria could very well be in a Baroque opera. It's a shame that the sounds are so strange. It sounds like it's from the 90s with the new age style, when they did covers of classics. It sounds like electronic music.

A beautiful piece with particularly harmonious interest. It needs to be completed with dynamics and accents. With that, the fact that the accompaniment pattern does not vary would not be such a problem, as it is a little monotonous as it stands.

Another very effective example of contemporary techniques. This mixture and intersection of modes reminds me of Bartók. The truth is that many people think that anything goes in these styles. You take two scales/modes at random and start writing things. That's not the case at all. It's mentally difficult (unless you have a lot of experience as a musician and composer) to imagine how two different modes can clash/converge simultaneously... And then you have to write with great care and attention. Chapter 2 of this book is very dense! Thank you for your exercises, which are making me reread all that material.

I made it a reference from the predator franchise. I never really watched a lot of the movies, but basically the main idea is that he collects the skull of his enemies as trophies.

Me too! (Soon)

I see why it is Skull Collector By the time I get it, My head is already a skull.

That is a good idea! Add Platinium Collector.

I've returned to Chapter 2 of Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" which is about Scale Materials, Polytonality and Polymodality. The prompt was "15. Create an original two-octave-scale harmonic texture in a scherzino for piano, four hands." I chose to use C major and C# Dorian as my composite two-octave-scale. Thanks for listening and I hope that you enjoy and let me know what you think!

This may be a good idea... for example if a member collects some number of manually awarded badges they get an extra badge for it like Bronze/Silver/Gold Collector or something like that!

There gonna be this one guy who’s probably treating the badges like Pokémon

Yeah, this is one of those hypothetical late night thoughts I had. Honestly, this is more of a inspirational completion thing that someone would do where they are inspired by one of the badges to write a piece of music purposefully trying to get that badge

I'm not sure I follow. There's already so many manually awardable badges .. surely you're not suggesting that someone could ever get them all?! . . .

I don’t know if this exists yet or if it’s possible that you would make it exist, but this idea is called the. “ skull collector award.” it’s for collecting all possible specialty badges from compositions. (when I mean by specialty badges, I meant the manually awarded badges that you would usually get by writing a certain piece of music that excels in something). I feel that it will be more complete with the competition awards, but that would just make it impossible due to seasonality. This award would be permanently awarded to those who completed all possible badges before any updates meaning that if someone received the badge one day and the following day added three more other badges than they would still keep the award.

Thank you Peter, I become the first recipient of this badge!!!!!! 😍

I present to you the new badge - The Colossus of Prora

“Good evening, dear friends. Here is the scherzo from my third Sonata. I hope you like it.”

LoL I'm wrong, Thatguy doesn't get the badge to be a better self!! 😜

The badge was already there! Even Thatguy himself got Better than Thatguy badge lol!

Some parts are now used as living space, shops, etc. now, though. I am fully aware of it's history, and it is already thought of and I have a good reason for that choice. You see, it hurts to analyse long works...

Hallo @PeterthePapercomPoser, I have created a PNG which could be used as basis for a badge. Some considerations: The original photo can be found at Wikimedia Commons under https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:20-07-06-Prora-RalfR-DJI_0120.jpg. Please check whether it can be used concerning the license conditions. I have nothing against a „Collossus of Prora“ badge, but I would remind that this building did not have the best reputation because of its „problematic“ history. Originally erected by the Nazis as a huge holiday resort for their „Kraft durch Freude“ (Strength Through Joy) project. After World War II it was used a long time as military barracks, first by the Soviet Army, than by the East German Volksarmee. Since the mid-1990s, it stood empty for a long time and was exposed to decay and vandalism. Now it is (at least partly) renovated and houses a hotel, apartments etc. A more detailed overview can be found at Wikipedia under https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prora.