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I was inspired by both Blackmore's Night and the "Kingdom Dance" piece from Tangled and I think I've come up with something that is sort of between the two styles. This one has some live performances from myself too. Hope you like it and let me know what you think

A friend of mine and I wrote this.

Hi, very nice indeed. I agree with Luis, the register feels more apropiaty for a Oboe or a second violin. The weakest part for me is the final cadence. It feels like something is missing there. If you add one measure before the end, it sounds more satisfiying to me. Basically you skip the tonic for a VI instead and then II6-V-I with a perfect authentic cadence. It feels a much stronger arrival feeling in my opinion. I'm looking forward for the next movements of your sonata 😉

This piece sounds nice with good counterpoint. But I thing the flute is not in its most brilliant register.

That's actually very common for sonatinas, to have more of a bridging passage in minor than a true development. Sonatina in C by Clementi for example(the very famous sonatina for beginners) has a bridging passage in the first movement that is in C minor briefly instead of a true development. Even some full sonatas(namely the Moonlight Sonata and its first movement) have a similar structure to the typical sonatina form. And you certainly met your goal. It is easily listenable, simple, but not so simple that it becomes boring, and definitely playable(I'd say it's at about the same difficulty level as the K 545 sonata, though that's just from listening).