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Hi all, I wanted to share my latest composition, hoping for some feedback! Enjoy the listening 🙂! Julien PS: Scores and midi files are available here: https://imslp.org/wiki/Tableau_No.5_(Piaser%2C_Julien) tableau 5.mid

Hi all! This is my first post, and I'm looking for a little advice! For context: I've been playing piano for 11+ years and I'm taking AP Music Theory right now. My theory teacher is having us write a composition using traditional 18th-century techniques, with four voices (I've opted for a traditional string quartet). This is my first time ever writing a piece of music for a class (everything else I've done is just playing around on guitar and piano), so I'm super unsure of where to start. I would be incredibly grateful for any advice on how to begin! Best, EB 🙂

Hey there I've listened to this along with your other posts. Very nice start to a theme here. Care to share anything more about this or yourself? It sounds like the start to something, are you looking for feedback on where to go? How to extend? Orchestration treatment? (since this is where you posted, I'll move this to unfinished music) I'm not sure about the Grenade cover, was it a test to replicate as a new orchestration? Feel free to offer some input here as well, as there are fantastic people to get to know that would help a fly find a turd. I get the gist that you're younger, which is great! Lots of people of all ages roam this forum on the prowl for knowledge and advice. Thanks for sharing, and welcome 🙂

Many thanks to you both for your comments. I didn't really think about what mood I was trying to set; just let the piece evolve organically. I'm planning to elaborate the piano part some more, and still need to add all my articulation, expression marks etc... Need to be careful not to over-egg the pudding though! The title is open to interpretation. It could simply be about the contrast between night and day; or perhaps about the cycle of history, alternating between periods of calm and periods of turmoil (sometimes called the Saeculum).

I feel the same way as well... a very interesting, interactive balance - yet each part is not overblown on its own or when together

Yes indeed, the violin part was melancholic, but I find the piano part to be particularly interesting as it balances the melancholy of the violin.

Very melancholically beautiful... a sense of hopelessness yet also acceptance, calm and even hope!

Made another update to this score, to remove yet more schoolboy errors!

Hey Guys, I would like to present my latest metal single, "Faust". Feel free to share your opinion, and leave a comment! Between my thoughts of despair, I made a deal, with the hell, With Mephisto in the night, I traded my soul for endless might. I played with the hell's hot flame, I wanted knowledge, youth, and fame, But the price I paid was high, I will fall down after I reach the sky. Promises of power, promises of gold, But the emptiness within is so cold, Bound by chains of my own horrible desire, I’ll be lost in the realm of eternal fire, oh. Between my thoughts of despair, I made a deal, with the hell, With Mephisto in the night, I traded my soul for endless might. I played with the hell's hot flame, I wanted knowledge, youth, and fame, But the price I paid was high, I will fall down after I reach the sky. Now I roam these streets alone, Haunted by the seeds I've sown, The echoes of my despair ring, In the song the devil sings. Promises of power, promises of gold, But the emptiness within is so cold, Bound by chains of my own horrible desire, I’ll be lost in the realm of eternal fire, oh. I danced with the demon's flame, I wanted knowledge, youth, and fame, But the price I paid was high, This is the ruthless lesson I learned, My name is Faust and I will burn.

That sounds like an exciting project! Original melodies can be elusive, but I'm sure yours will shine through with your unique voice as a composer. Keep up the great work!

The clarinet and piano complements one another very well, whether it is the give and take, question or answer, or use of chords and arpeggios for the piano, or runs in the melodies for the Clarinet. the feeling of general ease is well-balanced with the slightly more mysterious phrases. This works nicely as both as a piece in itself, a background music piece or even a programmatic piece. Have you thought of modulating this to A maj or any other key for contrasts?

I found another pop song that never hits the tonic! It's very well known and cycles through the same four chords throughout the whole song LoL! I also noticed that a lot of these songs that I'm posting have very weak harmonic motion. The chords are as follows: ii | IV | vi | V | (in A major) Ultimate Guitar Tab.com claims that this song is in B minor because it starts on the B minor chord - but if so then the song would be considered in Dorian mode - but to me it doesn't sound like it's in Dorian - it sounds like the D major chord in the second bar is definitely a sub-dominant.

Hey there! Today I submit my latest work. I'm not composing much lately but I managed to come up with this being somehow a reflection of thinking about the happy moments lately. It has some similarity with that highly expressive Rachmaninov style, that somehow represent for me really well this type of feelings. I hope you like it!

Not sure anyone's reading this thread; but wanted to provide a new audio file anyway, to match the last pdf.

That's one vote for @MisterWesley!

Have just updated my score for this one. Removed some glaring errors, and added more expression marks.

I think some of the writing here could be produced with good effect using woodwinds, real woodwinds. These sounds don’t do the writing any favors.

It yields a nice unpredictable surreal effect. There is also the occasional allusion to Impressionism. And at times a layering of more than one, sort of, “style.”

I've corrected a few things, done some minor and medium 🙂 changes, mostly in the development and recapitulation. Maybe needs a short coda? Any suggestions super welcome! Ciao! triopf1.mp3

Yea... wht a waste - I thought of this not long after posting it in YT. I wanted to insert a part w the same melody in A major : ( damnz...

Sure go ahead! - I don't know how to move this other than deleting this and posting it there : (

This song from the musical "The Greatest Showman" recently caught my attention:

i hate to double post, but i thought i should include the new youtube video and edited/refined score of this piece. thanks to @PeterthePapercomPoser for the name!

Same to you!! It has some LOTR feels within! Not throughout the whole piece, but in certain sections! Hope you enjoy the listen!