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ello everybody, I've spent many months working on three short new piano pieces for beginning to intermediate students. These are originally intended for children to play, but could also be for beginning adults. In these pieces, I've also tried to discover my own voice and style, do let me know how I've done in those areas. Other feedback related to technique, harmony and playability would be much appreciated. Poem 1: "based on a theme by Beethoven", updated score Poem 2: "the quirky detective", updated score Poem 3: "the crazed capybara", score

Hi!!! This a different post from the usual, I trieed making collage art and I kinda liked so I decided to translate it to music! Its my first time writing incidental music but I believe I achieved the mood I wanted to express!!! https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NKk3dLrDa8q4Rh_rVZ-36o9bmbVITTU3/view?usp=drive_link

Hello everyone, I'll give this forum a try - discovered it after watching Henry Ng's video on the 2nd movement of his 2nd piano sonata. Here are the first three movements of my first symphony (and my first piece of decent quality, hence C. 1). If anyone is interested, one can follow my channel to see when the fourth movement will be up. Comments and feedback are always appreciated.

You can see from the above posts in this same topic haha!

Nocturne written by me, any and all feedback is appreciated

Hi @Alant! I like your revised version more than the original, with more variation making it more interesting and unleashing more potential, sharing @user011235's thoughts. I thought it might be better if this version (which can sound a little more harsh than the original) can have the tenderness from the first combined/weaved into here - wld there be a gd way for this you might consider?

Hi @Mooravioli, I think these are good pieces for learning and practicing children and young adults. especially for younger children/early beginners, maybe there can be an even easier version: - physically (and maybe even in terms of sight reading), by simplifying the ornaments, chords and thickness of chords - or have the optional parts/notes marked out, so that players who cant reach some notes still can play with ease without them or with more reachable alternatives. Liked the pieces and subbed to your channel in YT!

Hi Mooravioli, I really enjoy your harmonic language in these works. It sounds quite jazzy and reminds me of Ravel at times.

This sounds like minecraft music, and i mean that in the best way possible. Very pretty, and so is your collage art!

Hey @Mooravioli, I relisten to your waltz and man there's so many bittersweet moment here. The opening LH figure reminds me of the 2nd mov of Chopin's 2nd Piano Sonata. Very nice change of register in b.83! Like the improvisation at the end too! Thx for your update! Henry

Hey Pabio, Out of the meaingless drama, let's move on to the music itself: I enjoy this one thoroughly Pabio! I feel like you are really allowing yourself to express yourself fully here. The most lovely thing is that you still maintain your control of counterpoint and you are really using those counterpoint for great emotional effect here. All the dissonances are so well handled and I love all those Mahlerian dissonances, and to be honest your prelude here really reminds me some of the first movement of Beethoven's mop.131 with the sadness and tragedy you portray here, It also reminds me Ivan's great prelude posted not long ago: Thx for sharing this great expression! Henry

Hi @user011235! I like the classical style sonatina, very Mozartean. I love the energy in it. For it I would probably stay long in a single key in the development section like you did here, as the music lingers in Bb minor b.21-47, almost the same length as the repeated exposition! I would probably keep modulating for more harmonic moving forward. The 12th interval in the LH of b.31 would be too big for pianist to be played together. I would also prevent the augmented seconds such as in b.35, since it sounds a bit weird under a classical style sonantina personally haha. The retransition in b.54 is quite short for me as well for a dominant preparation back to Eb major tonic! Despite being nitpicky I like this. Thx for sharing! Henry

Really nice! I would just suggest more dynamic markings but otherwise if someone told me this was a lost piece by Mozart found in some dusty music library in Vienna, I'd believe them.

Here is a real performance of the revised version

Very tender piece and performance, well done. My only suggestion would be to add a little more variety. A ton of variety isn't necessary in a short piece like this, where the whole thing feels like a single thought. But i would have liked to hear a little change from the pattern of simply one melody note every half measure. And I would've liked to hear those sixteenth notes last more than one measure. I felt like they had more to say.

(Sorry for the viola clef mistake...) Hello again. After 2-3 months with a considerable mental block I managed to start doing some progress and last night I composed a piece with this newly found creativity. This piece is a reflection of some of the feelings I haven't been unable to express in the past weeks. I wasn't expecting to create it, I just sat down and started playing with some harmonies. But luckily it turned out to be one of my most expressive pieces in my opinion, even if it is just a miniature. I hope you enjoy it!

It depends entirely on the people participating and their willingness to separate themselves from their own ideas, so that attacking an idea isn't attacking THEM, as an individual. This also helps to just admit when you got something wrong, or more importantly, when you misunderstood someone's position, which is a lot more common. The thing is, there's also the type of people who think that the discussion forum is their personal blog, which makes things really hard since they have no interest in, well, discussing. It's parroting a position, or being highly combative. This kind of zero-sum mentality ends poorly for both the thread and the community in general. There's a reason why in the guidelines I wrote 12 years ago there's this bit: This is a reference to an actual dude who showed up once and that was his main argument. He'd basically invade miscellaneous threads and post about how it's all garbage except for music written before 1740 (or some other highly specific date, I don't remember exactly.) He got banned shortly after for being disruptive. We've had this, and we've had all sorts of stuff over the years. But in the end, like I said before, if we're civil and nice to each other, we can get over all that stuff and have a good community that values and respects its members, even if people disagree on things. Back then we had quite a variety of different people holding different view points, and besides some banter, we were all still there. And for the few of us who remain, I really wish we can get something like that going again.

You appear to have to much time on your hands ?