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Hallo my friends! In these days some of you have been uploading works for the Shakesperean YC-summer competition. They are all amazing. I'm surprised how a general theme provides inspiration for so different musical approaches. I still have to listen to some of them (some are large works). Meanwhile, I bring here a little nocturne. Usually, I write music at nights, I like it, and if I don't feel sleepy, I prefer to stay up and do something. This nocturne is in the simple form AA' with a brief transition in the middle.

Found this article listing the top 25 film schools... We get so many people here trying to decide where to apply to study composition for film, this might be helpful. A school with a good film program AND a good music composition program would probably be a good place to be. Here's the film school list. See if there's anywhere on it that you're also thinking about because of it's music program. http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lists/best-film-schools-2016-top-920344/item/usc-25-film-schools-2016-920351 Cheers! pate ceramics

Very good ! Like Luis, I like that you explain the hidden meaning of the piece. I find this to be beautiful, in a way, I never experienced before, in your compositions.

Austenite, thanks so much for your comments. I am also not a fan of Elizabethan music. I never seek it out, I don't keep any on hand, and I have no desire at all to study it or start listening to it now. But for this competition I never would have gotten the idea to write in such a style. But it was fun! And I learned a lot about the harp. I don't know if you know this, but Beethoven was an excellent improviser and he often had to play the salons and sometimes share the stage with dilettantes and one trick ponies that somehow had gained favor with the aristocracy. So in a sort of 19th century "battle of the bands" Beethoven followed one such rising star on the piano. The crowd loved him - the dilettante - then it was Beethoven's turn. He grabbed a cellist's music, put it on the piano and turned it upside down. Then he played its crude little melody and improvised on it for fifteen minutes. Well, everyone knew what had just happened. Beethoven just proved that he could take a piece of crap and make something good out of it. This kind of thing inspires me because it's not the source material that is important. It's what happens when its developed. Inspiring, right?