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after a long hiatus, I'm back. during this hiatus I wrote a piece which I consider my best yet, a string quartet in a classical/ early romantic style, I wrote it very quickly for a module in the summer of last year (which is why there are so many repeats, it had to be a certain length of time, and I was very pleased with the result. let me know what you think and what you recommend

Very nice. Reminds me a lot of the final movement of Beethoven's string quartet no. 4 also in C minor.

A cool rondo form (or is it sonata-rondo??) piece! The theme is interesting and varied enough throughout to not be boring. There is much contrast and interplay between the various members of the quartet and plenty of variation in phrase lengths that keep things interesting. Plenty of different subdivisions are also in play. There is also some wonderful cello countermelodies in the chorale-like sections in the major mode. The G.P. and accelerando before the ending coda is a nice touch. A criticism is that the slow solo violin descent is too square sounding in the rendition (which a real violinist might bring much more expression to). Also - I think I've seen you write in C minor much too often (methinks it's a bad habit for a composer to get too used to writing in any particular key - I can provide some more advice on how to prevent this from happening if you want). Overall - great job!

Very clever and enjoyable. Mark

AND quintuple stops?! LoL - How many strings is the viola da gamba you're writing for supposed to have? And I guess since it's fretted all those chords are easier to play than would be the case with any other traditional bowed string instrument? The music is I guess very much in the spirit of a partita - nice job and thanks for sharing!

I enjoyed the music ... have you checked all the double and triple stops with a violist? Mark