HELLOOOO!!
It has been a while since i don't post here so it's nice to be back, today i bring you guys a small Ricercar with a very simple subject.
I done this piece while i was bored and i had nothing to do, so i just started writing, but i didn't finish it at first, i only finished a few days later.
The instrumentation is: Cornetto, Renaissance slide trumpet, Tenor Sackbut, Dulcian.
I hope you enjoy!

Las Chicas Locas.pdf

how about this?

Jazzical Piano Trio.pdf

assessment3.pdf

"I've tried my best to correct all the wrong notes in the score, but I'm wondering if the problem lies with the virtual instrument or with the notes themselves. Has anyone experienced this? Will it play similarly without major differences on real acoustic instruments?"

Link to the score: https://musescore.com/user/118018538/scores/35528798

Here's short lament I composed for solo Oboe .... when some notes during my warm up tweaked my interest.

As always comments always appreciated.

Mark

(Oboe is computer generated...although I have played it 😉)

Oboe Lament6-30-26.pdf

A link to the score: https://musescore.com/user/118018538/scores/35329313

Little fugue i wrote today in the north german baroque style. First musical output in years. Simple in harmony, joyful and melodic in theme and counterpoint. Scored for four voices, work well enough with organ or strings.

Fuga in G.pdf

Chmbr- DearOctober.pdf

00:00 Movement I.

07:27 Movement II.

13:22 Movement III.

Od. G. - String Quartet No. 1 [2026-05-29_06-41-34] .pdf

the video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1c3EQ6aE9k/?vd_source=95e0ca6d098d75738c935e50eaa3ac41

Suddenly, my thoughts are filled with loss. It’s not painful exactly, nor is it something I want to erase. But it carries a quiet melancholy, releasing the sadness, anger, and tension I’ve accumulated over time. In a strange way, this grief becomes a kind of relief. A way to let go of everything I’ve been holding in.

Still, it lingers. It loops in my mind. Eventually, I have to let it go so I can rest. I have to keep living. I can’t stay immersed in sorrow forever. So I walk along the river, letting the sounds of the water drown out my thoughts. I walk until my legs are sore, until exhaustion replaces emotion. Then I go home, lie down, and finally sleep—my grief forgotten, at least for the night.

Also this piece was one of the few I actually (somewhat) planned ahead. This is what I had planned

"Walk to forget Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone, 1 Percussion, Violin, Viola, Violoncello. This piece is intended to in some way, describe my experience of grief, specifically while trying to fall asleep.

Some nights, like the night this piece is based off of, I struggle to fall asleep. Stress, homework, expectations, all pile on top of each other, and this pressure releases grief. Suddenly my mind is occupied by grief and loss. It’s not painful, or something I want to forget. But it’s melancholic, it releases the sadness, anger, and stress I’ve felt over time. This grief is actually a chance to release all my struggles. But it goes on and on. At some point, I must forget my grief again, so I may sleep. I must go on with my life, and cannot wallow in my grief. So I walk along the river, till the sounds swallow my mind. I walk until my legs are tired and that’s all I can think about. So I go home, go to bed, and have forgotten my grief, and everything that caused it, and sleep.

So how do I convey this in a piece of music? I need a theme/motif for grief: I imagine something in the alto saxophone. I think introducing it with a poking/prodding motive, like a repeated note, taken from instrument to instrument. An idea that represents the stress of life, poking my brain to the edge. This I’m not sure will work with the time constraint, and I may just begin at the next part.

Then a swell and complete change to the grief motive. In this context, I imagine something legato and sostenuto, non-triatic and lacking “home”. I think the alto saxophone should appear in the high register for the first time, everyone should be in a higher register than before, which might make the prodding motive earlier less effective, but this grief motive more effective. The grief motive must have a rhythmic element to it, so that it is recognizable as key centers change, and the pitches can be moved around functionally, to allow moments of tonal beauty amongst the quartel nature of the motive. There also needs to be a nature element, an ostinato to represent walking, and getting distracted by the wind, the stars, the river. The grief motive slowly becomes less and less present until it is taken over by the nature motives.

Then we sleep. A meditative ending."

Izaak Thoms Walk Final.pdf

🤣

I would also like to dedicate this fugue as a birthday present to my dear friend Julia as well, whose family has been going through exceedingly difficult times for more than one year now. Since the loss of a very special loved one has taken a severe toll on us all, my sincerest hope now is that she and her family can start anew and rebuild their lives from the ashes of their grief, even when all hope for a better future seems gone forever and endless mourning seems to be the only thing left to live for.

Bach himself was no stranger to painful, heart-wrenching losses. Even as he lost both parents at age 10, his first wife at 35, and in line with the astronomical infant mortality rates of his era, more than half of his 20 children during childhood, he was likely reassured that his dedication to God alone through his music would be worthy of a place in Heaven for all those he loved and whose safety he prayed for daily.

This key of F-sharp minor in our currently standardized A = 440 tuning always evoked in me a far greater sense of mourning in the wake of tragedy than any other. Perhaps because of this reason I felt naturally drawn to it when thinking of those precious loved ones we may have lost along the way, the precious, cherished moments that will never again come to pass, and the longing memories broken by the sudden wound their departure left forever imprinted in our hearts.

Scrolling video link (YouTube)

Fugue in F-sharp minor for String Quartet.pdf

Here's my new study.

Have a good Easter 🙂

Marc

01 - Conducteur - Quatuor pour flûte et cordes.pdf

This was made using musescore

here is the pdf.

here is the link

I hope you enjoy!

This one. It is 'A hundred birds saluting the phoenix', as the trills and tremolos can be interpreted as bird-songs.

The piece is in A Major, (A Dur), and approximately 1 minute 20 seconds long. (I think.) It contains 78 bars of music.

The instrumentation is Guzheng, Dizi and Erhu. (古筝，笛子，二胡。)

Please enjoy!

https://musescore.com/user/96214813/scores/34228625

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Chinese Fuge.pdf

Here's my submission to the Spring competition; overall while composing this I did a lot on like, 5 different days, because I kept forgetting about it and then working on It! the instruments I chose are: Guitar, Piano, Violin, and Cello. I tried to make it (sort of?) Interesting with my Instrument choice which of I forgot to put the 5th one. Its a little short, but It'll do. I mostly did this for fun and have no intent on winning.

oh, and also I misspelled the MP3 file. Great.

Percussion five has a lot of handmade instrument specifically for this work

. The alcoholics shekere; is just a bucket with crushed up beer, cans, or soda cans is meant to be played in a similar style to a traditional shekere

. the facidrum; faci- Latin for bundle, a bundle of resident sticks attached and tied up to a frame

. Chopping block; a semi resonant piece of wood meant to be played like a table and a practice pad

All of the other instruments should be self-explanatory

Keep note that since because this was written in musescore bunch of playback loopholes has been exploited, although that there are more than five staves these are to represent each instrument in the set up rather than the actual part parts of represented by the groups that are bracketed. This is to create custom percussion set ups, and to satisfy an easier workflow with sound fonts.

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Sacrificed to the wilderness.pdf

Thanks for listening! https://flat.io/score/6a24e52b10804a8298f36fb4-track-1-demo