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Hello, all! Here's my most recent composition. This is a more sonorous piano piece, less "dissonant" perhaps, though it's still based on the symmetrical scales of the prelude I posted recently. The title means "silver nocturne," and is intended to be liquid and smooth and placid, like rippling moonlight on a quiet lake. It will likely become incorporated as a "slow" movement into a larger work. The work features motivic, rather than thematic, development; you will notice the same motif weave in and out of the sections. Please let me know what you think of this. I'd love feedback of any kind! (This is a live recording so I do apologize for some of the choppiness in advance.) Happy listening!

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Another favorite, from PC land: Civilation 4's "Baba Yetu."

A bitter-sweet (can't think of a good word 😅) violin. Critique and suggestions are much appreciated!

The opening theme about the cuban revolution. Fidel Castro is in the mountains forming a coalition. A free and just Cuba is on the horizon

Hey all, this is kind of a dream pop/rock sort of song I wrote. Let me know what you think and cheers

Kudos on finishing this intro movement. Don't give up on completing this! Keep us updated my guy, well done.

My all time favorite story line from any video game I've ever played. Half way through was a pretty big twist.

Hi, I'm a violist. This is actually a nice solo piece for viola, great job! (We don't have much in the repertoire.) I played through it before I commented. My only complaint is the L.H. pizz passage (m. 25-30). It's hard enough to play a L.H. pizz on one string, let alone 3, all while sustaining notes on the A string. It's playable, yes, but you're asking quite a lot from the left hand there. The physics of playing the viola—a story for another day—can present a challenge when more than one note is required in a piece of music. Simultaneously bowing a note on the A string and plucking a note on the C string will probably only sound even close to sufficiently good if played by violists with larger-than-average hands. If it were me, I would rewrite that passage altogether. From a stylistic standpoint, I don't feel that it fits in well, anyway.

Thank you Joshua for your feedback. I am very pleased that you like the piece. As far as more interplay between the instruments is concerned, I have already provided comments about that in the replies to other people. Particulary, I realise that I should have given the piano a larger role in the melodies.

Excellent start. Stands well in its own right.

thanks man, I was trying to portray the happiness of the people of cuba while the coalition was forming.

The piano part puts me in a cheerful mood, it's so playful and wacky, in a good way!! 😄

ya lucky I only got 2nd now ThatGuy is in the mix??

Please, don’t worry lol, last time was just luck

I'll enter as an entrant

See - I knew it was done as is! If not you would have had to change the way it ends to somehow extend or lead into another section! Great job ... this shows quite a bit of personality!

No. 1 - While this starts quite desolate it quickly grows into quite a jubilant and dynamic piece! I just thought that in some places the continuous accents on the melodic chords in the right hand kind of overload the ear and I would have toned down the thickness of some chords or judiciously remove a few of the accents (maybe the ones on the weak beats aren't as necessary?) in order save the ear from fatigue. No. 2 - This one sounds more devastated throughout although there are moments where hope shines through. I think you use the pauses very effectively in this piece. The emptiness is filled with expectation and meaning. I think I also have the same complaint as in the previous one about the heavy sounding chords. I don't know if you're working in a DAW or not so I don't know if you have the capability to do this but a pianist would naturally bring out the top note in a melodic chord while playing the rest of the chord softer. Also left hand chords would naturally be played at a softer dynamic but maybe you intended as is to give it more of that devastated feel so feel free to ignore. No. 3 - Nice use of parallel 5ths - I liked that passage! I do have to say that you seem to stray far from cliche in these pieces. Great ending! No. 4 - This one is quite bleak. One thing that I haven't mentioned yet is your consistently creative use of harmony in these. I noticed some quasi-octatonic scales used or maybe more like C altered scale with an added G. The figurations in this are also quite original and you always manage to bring out the melody or that off-beat descending motif. Well done! No. 5 - I like how this one develops - it takes the simple melody you introduce in the middle and adds a bunch of chromatic figurations before thickening the texture - well conceived! This one sounded and felt like more of an etude as well. No. 6 - This one was a bit heavy for my taste. Too many chords for me. Also it doesn't feel finished to me - the cadence at the end doesn't sound convincing nor final enough. Overall this is quite a collection! I've only listened one time through each of these so I don't really detect the references to each other that you might have intended - they do seem like they could be stand-alone pieces. Also, are some of these live performances? Especially the last couple of ones sound really realistic although the rubato in the first one sounds kind of contrived and lacks finesse (in my opinion). On the whole these were an enjoyable listening experience! Thanks for sharing!

I really like the soundtrack to "god of war"

I thought it would be fun to make a "symphony" in a latin style, excited to start making the more tense sections as the reality of the cuban revolution sets in.

I'm a sucker for Cuban music. If you're not cubano... well, you do a great imitation. I love the maj7 chords with a splash of 6th in there, makes my soul flutter. And the flamenco-style piano entry is just ¡perfecto! Also, great use of bongos and maracas to give it that percussive splash. The brass fall at the end was fantastic. Thanks for sharing—I hope you're able to finish this!

Lovely work. I really like how “placid” and smooth the 3rds and 4ths are in places like mss. 17 and 18, and how that contrasts with the little “pinpricks” of the more jagged harmonies like in mss. 28 and 29. It all flows really well.

Hello Jordan! This piece is very evocative in the sense it set out to be, so kudos for that! This is an interesting point, as you can see something quite similar in Debussy's "des pas sur la neige". The dynamic range on the piece is very shallow, and it tries to produce the image of walking on a snowy setting. I don't know if this limits the "nightyness" of the piece, however, as I think the interpreter of the piece has plenty of space to bring out the colors he/she desires. Also about color, I like how there is constant interplay between sections with very consonant harmonies to some that are a bit more crunchy. It really puts into perspective how beautiful a simple, consonant passage might sound like. M. 54 might need some cleaning. (funny that it happend on m 54, as the whole discussion in this post is about 5/4 time signatures) Anyways, great nocturne : )

I added a cello accompaniment

Thank you for listening and commenting. I did end up rewriting it with the cross voice correction and an alternative bass that sounds less terraced but after printing it out I deleted it off my phone, I wish I uploaded it now. It didn't occur to me at the time to just use articulation to get that staccato rhythm, I agree it would be easier to read and less fussy. 🙂

Nice topic! I like the Shadowgate soundtrack because it's eerie, mystical and has a little jazzy harmonics here and there: I also did a keyboard cover of another Shadowgate song here: And I love Metroid soundtrack, as one of my music college mate said "It doesn't sound like anything else". Perfectly fitted for the NES platform with three individual parts, interesting harmonic lines and counterparts.

Thanks, you guys, for encouragement and help. I uploaded it on YouTube with sounds from Logic Pro X to give it a little more life:

I would like to enter as an entrant

gotta just stop thinking and let it happen

I decided to make a calm and cozy melody because that's fun! 😄 Critique is very welcome!

Nice . i really like the mood . with the harmonica at the beginning it could definitly be sountrack to a Western (sunset and so on .. 🙂 )

Very nice. This kind of harmony it's natural to me. I think it's a mistake talking all the time about consonance and dissonance. In fact, in these (and all) languages it's a matter of tension and relief, and COLOR. On the other hand, when you take or build up a scale and use it to write a piece like this, it's not atonality. Better, as you said, modality. it's just a mode you have chosen, and you make believe it's real and coherent. And it sounds genuine, unique. The parts are convincing.