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I don't know to play the piano well neither music theory. I don't think it'cccccccc2.mp3s a great piece but I wanted to share it..

Trying to make a sort of military-esque composition, and of course nothing is more military than brass and snare. But am I using too much?

So, I decided to finally get around to fully orchestrating my piece for concert band, "Baron von Munchausen" -- string section and all. I was surprised that it took only a few hours of my day today. Most of the work was simply rephrasing the saxophone section as a string section, and adding some new string parts as well. The wind instruments definitely still take center stage, though. I also made some minor tweaks to the harp part and other instruments. It's a fun, adventuresome piece -- hopefully in the spirit of the Baron himself -- and I hope you'll enjoy it. I'd certainly appreciate hearing whatever thoughts pop into your head as you listen. I've attached the original program notes from 2017 along with the updated score. Thanks as always, YC.

@Pns It doesn't sound bad at all, just be more confident and reassured in your music, as far as other people's opinions. At the end of the day, when I write music all I care is that I'm happy with it.

These was beautiful. the only thing I'd is to watch the tempo. with a little more confidence youll be able to keep even time. Thanks again for sharing 🙂

Something like this in m. 13, for example.

Sure thing: you know how in Cynical (the part with the triplets with quarter notes on the bottom at 39) you have the quarter note on its own implying it's held? You use two layers to create the effect; later one is on top to create the triplets, and the second later is the bottom with the quarter note. In Fireplace, you have a bunch of notes tied together to hold the chord instead of using multiple layers like you do in the other ones.

thank you so much! your reply gave me the will to write this :

@Ken320 @SergeOfArniVillage Thanks to the both of you. This suite was my own personal challenge (much like your "Beginner Piano Pieces", Serge) to be a little more compositionally subtle (although the movements certainly aren't easy!).

This one stands out to me a little bit. I don't know if you're intentionally breaking sentence form, but it has varying degrees of success, in my opinion. In section A I think it works well enough with kind of a joke cadential tail. The second portion seems more like a lot of repetition without as much dedication to fragmentary elaboration which made the piece lost a little steam by the end.

Focusing in on Fireplace: I'm not totally sure why you're not using layers for things like 12-23... from your other ones I know you can. I found the modulation back to 30 to be a little heavy handed here. The binary form you have before hand doesn't really have any alterations the second time little "A" goes through which already kind of loses me, then the tonicization repeating sounds more like you didn't really know how to get back to F-sharp, as opposed to a soft return to big A. Other than that, chord choice was lovely, I particularly like B/C# for the stepwise motion.

That was great! You have talent for sure. Naturally inclined to music. Some people just are. Once you learn more music and theory you'll soar in writing. Thank you for sharing:)