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Well at least I am always corrected by Peter when I mistype piano as piani (not with a gun tho lol!!) Henry

Hi @user011235! I like this rag! I was actually surprised to hear the 16th notes in this swung. I had to look up whether rags were ever swung or not because the ones I was familiar with were played straight. But it turns out that later rags, after 1920 did in fact incorporate swing time into them even if sometimes only in the right hand syncopations. Great rag though! Makes me think of this Simpsons clip: LoL!! Thanks for sharing.

This canon is based on each of the four contrapuntal transformations of a single dodecaphonic series, initially highlighted in colours corresponding to each of the 12 notes of the tone row. As showcased in the video, said transformations are presented and organized within the melodic line as follows: Original Tone Row - Retrograde - Inverted - Inverted Retrograde. Even though as a perpetual canon it could technically go on forever and always end up in the same pitch, only two complete repetitions of the whole line are shown here: first the one with highlights and labels for each of the transformations amidst the contrapuntal scaffolding, and lastly the one without any of said indicators. A more tonal-sounding plagal-ish cadence has also been included as a small coda at the end, once the cello completely finishes playing the bass line's 2nd repetition. Enjoy! YouTube video link:

Hello My new music, still on a poem by my dear Jules Laforgue. So for voice (mine) and piano. In French with subtitles Still on the edge of tonal music. In the description of the video on Youtube, you can read a small note of intent that I wrote, which gives some keys to the black and sublime poetry of this young man, who died at the age of 27. (and whose cycle is his last). (And this time, thinking of you, I took care to leave the score roughly readable in the video editing)... Thank you for listening, Reviews and comments welcome!

Thanks Henry, I love Hisaishi's music: so that's a great compliment! Watched a You Tube video the other day, about how to write Ghibli style chord progressions. I may decide to perform this in public at an upcoming concert, since it's very nice to play.

Hello everyone, I'm Zhang Wenhao, a singer-songwriter from China. Here I'd like to share with you a laid-back and sultry retro jazz dance song I composed, titled "The Night Is Tantalizing". It tells the story of a couple dancing closely in the dance floor. Welcome to listen. 大家好，我是来自中国的创作歌手张文灏。在这里和大家分享一首我创作的慵懒、暧昧的复古爵士舞曲《夜色撩人》。 这首歌讲述了一对恋人在舞池中相拥着起舞的故事，欢迎大家收听。 歌词如下/The lyrics are as follows： 《夜色撩人》/《The Night Is Tantalizing》 作曲/Composed by：张文灏 Zhang Wenhao 作词/Lyrics by：张文灏 Zhang Wenhao 渐渐浓烈的一股奇异幽香 侧身看见你张开那双 迷人的眼眶 泛着狡黠的目光 夹带渴求的余光 几乎要把我包围光 拥抱着你摇晃在舞池中央 你长发拂过我的耳畔 痒痒的酥爽 泛着诱惑味的香 随舞步层层荡漾 把我淹没在你之上 都怪这夜色太撩人唤醒了沉寂的渴望 心中微弱的火光在这一刻被点亮 此时此刻我只想 舞到地老天荒 和你一起陷在这迷人的晚上

Hey @Alex Weidmann! It’s in no way awful, at least my recording of the 3rd Sonata is Worte with all those tears lol! Besides your playing is nice. Yup I like your rubato! Me neither lol! Maybe we need FF expert @PeterthePapercomPoser or @Thatguy v2.0 or @ferrum.wav here to explain LoL. Nonetheless I enjoy your playing your own work, it really matches your more modal style but here it’s quite like Joe Hisaishi since I watched a lot Miyazaki Animations recently. Those high register and ethereal mood and harmony really makes the music “Above the Clouds”! The ending on C sharp major is quite surprising to me but I enjoy it, making it resemble Japanese anime music more! Thx for sharing your music and your playing! Henry

Hello @张文灏！ Very nice singing and jazzy mood! I like the saxophone interlude after the first chorus. Only one thing: 舞到地老天荒 [Dance Forever] reminds me of the poor girl in the Sacrificial Dance in The Rite of Springs muahaha! Remember to hit the “like” button in the bottom right hand corner of reviewer’s posts so we know that you like our posts haha! Thx for sharing. Henry

@gaspard has asked me to orchestrate another one of his Clavichord pieces and I was happy to oblige! You can view his YouTube video here: Character Select Screen And you can view his score here: It took me about 8 days to do this orchestration and I am presenting here two versions - one that repeats the piece from the beginning and one that doesn't. I hope you enjoy and I'd love to hear any critiques, comments, suggestion or just observations that you may have! This is the 2nd time that I've orchestrated one of @gaspard's Clavichord pieces.

Hi to both @gaspard and my baby Peter, I like both your work! To @gaspard’s original: I love the omnibus progression at the beginning and the virtuosic Toccata after it! The ending reverts to opening texture too nicely. To Peter: Your orchestration is masterful! I really love how you arrange for brass for those opening and ending chords, as you transform the opening to something from a mysterious black hole. I love how you strings for the running notes and especially love those bass drums and snare drums for transforming the original piece to a match, possibly to space lol. The running of harps with diminution gives so much colour to the running which I may steal it to my variation on your themes haha. Your buildup to climax with a gradual crescendo throughout the piece is wonderful too, as well as the punching percussion to enhance the intensity till the end! I feel like this one is much longer than just a minute given how colourful it is. Very nice job Peter! Even I say a lot to Peter’s arrangement, it doesn’t mean I like Gaspard’s clavichord original less lol! Thx both of you for sharing! And thx to Gaspard asking Peter for arrangement so now we can kill two birds with one stone! Henry

Thanks Peter! Lol!!

unfortunately @user011235 there isn’t any video game in progress. That would be amazing though. i wrote the clavichord version thinking it would be a character select music for such a video game though. So interesting to see what @PeterthePapercomPoser does with keyboard scores. The middle part really shines much more in the orchestrated version in my opinion. I used to do orchestration before the obsolescence of finale and I feel like peter has much brighter and friendlier symphonic takes whereas my ideas usually skewed much harsher. And some of the things Peter knows how to do I never got around to learning. The kid knows what he’s doing!

Just thought I'd post an earlier version of this piece, performed by me on my electric piano. Sorry the sound quality's so awful! You can hear the piano keys clattering throughout. Think the rubato is better though? This version is mostly Uematsu's original, with some of my own added material.