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This is my 200th work, and i find incredible that i managed to come this far in sucha small time. For my 200th work i decided to make my bread and butter, Galliards! This is for Crumhorn consort, Recorder consort, Rackett, Bassoon, Percussion and Harpsichord. Enjoy! ❤️

I've concocted yet another short microtonal experiment, this time inspired by @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu's Violin Sonata he wrote recently for his friend @expert21. I wanted to continue this with a B section in another key/meter before returning to the A material, but it ended up sounding pretty conclusive to me at the end. But let me know what you think! Maybe I'll make another movement? I would appreciate any comments, suggestions, critiques or just observations you may have! This is entirely in 24 tet. Thanks for listening!

Ah interesting. I mentioned the lumatone since their performers might be looking for new music from current composers... it would be cool if someone performed or recorded for you! Couldn't hurt to market it for a wider audience and all

Thanks! The thing is that the piece plays 2 times, one wich just the crumhorns and then the tutti. It was very common to do that in early suites like Banchetto Musicale from Schein. Or any other dance ment to be played in concertato manner (many instruments).

Afaik a lumatone is mostly used as a midi controller (even though I think it has its own built-in sound also). There is no synth sound that I would prefer to piano that wouldn't just function as a substitute for a string ensemble. Maybe I could just write for a solo instrument with string orchestra? With this piece, I conceived of it as a piece for solo monophonic (acoustic) instrument and accompanying polyphonic (acoustic) instrument, kinda like for the Dreamscapes competition. You're welcome! I'm glad you're benefitting from it! I'm actually using microtones very lightly in this. I use some microtonal passing and neighboring tones in addition to sub-minor 3rds and sub-minor 7ths. But I definitely consider this a microtonal-lite style in that it's both easy to apply and not that complex to understand. Thanks for your reply!

Nice! I really wanna try to write more accessible music and I think this one is a good try! Yeah an advertisement on what I’m writing!

Are you happy with the microtonal piano sounds? I wonder if using some sort of E-piano or synth would give your pieces something different to offer, as you could mimic a lumatone or whatever else is out there. I know there are microtonal harpsichords and pianos, but they're so unpractical. I just checked fiverr and no one offers lumatone lol. Dang. I'm just brainstorming because you clearly have so much interest in microtonal music, I'm just trying to think of other outlets available. I've kind of vicariously lived through your microtonal studies, silently judging what I like and dislike about it's uses for my own music, so thank you for that haha 😄 The music overall felt comical and maybe slightly cheesy, but I think that's just the nature of using so many microtones within your harmonic context. That's not to say I didn't like it, it was fun 🙂 Nice job Peter, looking forward to hearing more ...or maybe something big you have brewing in the works...

This music makes me ye olde happy, thanks for sharing! I love when the rest of the instruments come in about halfway through... for me you could shave off a bunch before that and treat it like an intro 🙂

Hi @PeterthePapercomPoser Thank you for the comment! I hope this work is not too complicated and bitter to you. Yes, my music is usually highly thematic and is usually evolving. This way of writing give me a balance (which I hope to achieve) where coherence between different passages while constantly giving changes/ energy to the music like a living creature - instead of very structured development. It really does. After all those dramas, I just want some "peace" to settle the piece, and prepare the audience to the next movement. Another technical considerations is that, I realize there might be frequent pedal changes to play the written chords, but I don't want 2 harps to play there. So I wrote the passage in a minimal way. Yes, Dorico with NotePerformer. Any good suggestion to avoid that issue lol

This is amazing! it kinda reminds me of pirates of the Caribbean. i cant believe you've made 200 songs! keep it up!

cool.

Very nice, in some parts it kinda sound like an old recording. Very good!

I've actually made two songs (seious and energy discharge) made out of only deltarune instruments from chapters 1 and 2! (Note: I cant make one for chapters 3 or 4 because there's no .sf2 online)

this is really great! it's nice to see another deltarune fan on this website. I think this captures the original vibe while putting in your own personality!

Hi all! These are the three inner movements of my new piano partita. There is also an introductory movement and a final, stylized gigue. I had some difficulties in exporting a MIDI rendering for those two movements, so they are not included here. There are strong thematic and sectional connections across each movement, so they do make a little less sense this way than they would in full context. Just bear that in mind while listening. I'd love any thoughts on the music, the piece is for a good friend of mine and I'd like to give it to them in tip-top shape! PARTITA 2-4.pdf

Hi @HoYin Cheung! This one is quite contrapuntally complex! The motivic ideas and counterpoint are sound. And there is a clear hierarchy of importance and different elements are brought in and out of the foreground dynamically like a kaleidoscope. There is a natural ebb and flow and a sense of flourishing at every moment of the piece's duration. It is surprising how thematic the piece actually is once I listen again and pay attention, despite the challenging harmonic language and sometimes cacophonous orchestration, with elements seemingly chaotically interrupting each other. The reduction in instrumental forces towards the end really helps to bring the piece towards its conclusion. And it looks/sounds like your harp writing towards the end is quite possible and even easy for the harp to play! Looking back over the score, I notice that the 16th notes runs in measure 28 - 30 in the winds don't seem to be audible (at least I couldn't hear them). Presumably you rendered this score with NotePerformer? Thanks for sharing - I enjoyed it!

i made a song out of only instruments used in deltarune chapter 1 in fl studio.