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Apologies for the extremely delayed message. I have been meaning to get back to you! But life has been crazy. I appreciate you listening and your feedback! I don't have a lot of what I'd call true music theory knowledge. My dad is a musician, so music has always been in my life. And I played cello through elementary and middle school. But in terms of formal training outside of that...I have none other than what I've learned from listening to classical and soundtracks. Also, glad to hear it encompasses the idea well!

It's been far too long since I've been able to sit down and dedicate any length of time to a piece. Life has just gotten busy, so...this evening while having some free time I decided to sit down and try to finish this piece! It's a suite of themes that I decided to string together and call..."The Return Home". Some portions of it have a grand sound that I relate to a Lord of the Rings feeling (but not nearly as impressive in my opinion). The piano takes a fairly lead role amongst the symphony. With features in there from woodwinds, choir, and a few others. I hope you enjoy the listen! I've enjoyed spending my time working on this one and personally feel that the stretched out approach may have improved the end piece. Allowing me to come back every few days and listen again with fresh ears. Tweak and change. And this is where it remains now! As always, this was put together in FL Studio using a variety of VSTs. BBCSO Discover, LABS, a couple Spitfire Originals. Looking forward to hearing some feedback!

Hi again @Aw Ke Shen, I don't think this is pop at all. As a moderator I'm tempted to just move it into the piano/solo keyboard forum since I think that's where it really belongs - but it might just be me so if you want me to move it just let me know. I perceive this as almost Grieg-like. Despite using lots of repetition this once again impresses me with the amount of variation; canonic imitation, changing subdivisions, change of register. And the melody is very beautiful in it's simplicity and especially prone to being varied in multiple ways while still being audibly related to the original. The only thing that's missing is a key change. The melody/harmony is also a good example of how parallel 5ths in this style of writing don't automatically destroy independence of voices. Thanks for sharing!

( another ) One of my rare few piano piece that I think ( ? ) is at least fairly Pop-like in nature. What do those of y'all into pop think? Wld y'all like a piece like that? https://musescore.com/user/62605720/scores/16419340

I agree with @MisterWesley , and I would add that it's good to pay attention to the proportion of a cadenza to concerti of varying lengths. When I hear "2 mins and 15 seconds", I think that is a perfectly reasonable length on average but I do not know the length of the rest of your work/movement, and you may be able to get away with shorter or longer. I would suggest specifically comparing your work to well known works of about the same length, and maybe in the style and time period you're emulating (if you are). I hope that's helpful. 🙂

Rhapsody in Blue

(I hope I'm doing this in the correct place. If not, apologies.) For those of you who're always on the path of expanding your orchestration palette and technique, you may be interested to check out the first volume of my Orchestration In Depth series of digital books, for Apple Books, which are viewable in the Apple Books reader on MacOS, iPad, and iPhone, and with a little extra effort, on Windows, too, according to my understanding. This particular book focuses exclusively on scoring and composing for Timpani for many types of settings and purposes. I honestly don't think there has ever been anything on the market for composers quite like this book or this series. If you click on View in Apple Books, you should be able to click the sample button to see some random pages. Here is the link: https://books.apple.com/us/book/orchestration-in-depth-timpani/id6502035004

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IM 11 AND I PLAY THE FRENCH HORN!!! What are some of you simplest yet favourite pieces?

Creating a violin sonata in the Romantic style sounds like a wonderful project! Remember to enjoy the creative process and let your passion for music guide you as you compose your violin sonata. Good luck!

thank you so much! it means so much to me, probably one of the highest compliments ive gotten on a piece of mine. im really glad you enjoyed it, feels like my hard work has been put to good use.

Hi @sned! What a wonderful quirky piece this is! It has so much character - very often it reminds me of Prokofiev. I haven't heard the piece in a long time but for some reason his "Love of Three Oranges" comes to mind. Or maybe his "Romeo and Juliet" is kinda bold in the same way as the finale of this piece. I am glad that working backwards was an effective strategy for you! I have recently been using a work ethic where I work on any and all parts of my composition at once - only at the end do I actually try to fit the parts together into something that makes sense. At that point it's somewhat like fitting together puzzle pieces LoL. I like how adventurous this piece is both melodically and harmonically. You really take the listener on a journey! As for what to name it - "The Birth, Life, and Death of a Giant" is my suggestion. Take it or leave it though - it's your piece. But for me it does seem to suggest some mysterious character - something akin to "The Sorcerer's Apprentice". Thanks for sharing! Imo it's a masterpiece.

yeah, via the title you may gather that i have not decided on a name for this piece. i may say that ive been working on this piece for half a year now, but in reality it's been about 4 years since i began work on the piece. i initially started backwards, writing the coda section, but i wrote it as if it were the beginning section, but sounded very much like a natural ending to a piece it just didn't really work out, and for all 4 years, i had been working, actively and inactively, on trying to find out how to flesh this out into a full work, until i had the fantastic idea to stick at the end of the piece and figure out what comes before it. it's the first time i've ever worked "backwards" on a piece, but it's been quite rewarding, i very much enjoyed figuring out how to connect the themes of the end to the rest of the piece, and the joy of finally being able to use that piece i wrote four years ago is a sense of joy that's not very easily put into words lol. but anyways, open to criticism, specific and general. feel free to access the kinda rough and ready score i've provided, there may be a bunch of errors, but anyone else who's able to offer engraving feedback please do!

énouement- "The bittersweetness of having arrived here in the future, finally learning the answers to how things turned out but being unable to tell your past self." Please let me know how this turned out! My goal is to eventually have a composition for each of the "obscure sorrows."

I wrote this piece ten years ago, but just went through and made an mp3 with myself singing all the parts. (Pardon my bass line, and thank you autotune for allowing me to fake a bass part). In the last days, When the land is rolled up, And the seas are poured out, And every thing is put away, Come and sit with me, my old friend, And we'll watch are the stars are turned out, One by one.

Everything after the introduction is just a blueprint. All the material is here, I just need to expand on it. This piece will only be 5 mins long. Let me know what you think! Also, glissandi don't work with tremelos, so the playback is a bit broken.

This is my finihsed competition piece although I haven’t submitted it yet bc i need to get the score in pdf format. It’s really a single movement but you see timestamps because of the programmatic nature of the music. i also recroded it in pieces just to make it easier on myself performance-wise. It should be playable on any keyboard instrument. Edit: Attaching a pdf score.

Great job. Congratulations)

I just finished composing all movements my first full Sonata, please take a look. 🙂

Sorry, but the piece is clearly unplayable for piano solo. Maybe you're not familiar with keyboard playing?

Completing such a project is no small feat, and it's worth celebrating this milestone in your musical journey.