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We just want you to reply something related to the posted music, so you don't need to twist our views, thanks. Henry

Hello again, my dear friends, Here is another piece I wrote yesterday. Music of the moment. It’s one of those inspirations where you sit at the piano and it just comes out all at once, and I must say I truly loved this particular piece. Very Schubert-like, as always, but I believe I’ve also added my own touch. I hope you enjoy it.

You are welcome. As a composer, it is important to know what influences us. Chopin is another great early to mid romantic composer. I recommend listening and studying his works. 🙂 But be prepared to dive deeper into chromaticism.

As Bhko mentioned, I, truly, feel that you capture Schuman and Schubert in this solo work. Both were excellent piano writers at their time. They knew how to use the piano as character and as instrument. Here, you have illustrated that. Many do not know that piano isn't just instrument. I love the 3 against 2. It creates lovely cross rhythm. The subtle chromatism, which colors the theme, is always nice to hear. 🙂 Over all...kudos

I'm a year late to the conversation, but if anyone was interested in moving over to Musescore Studio 4.5, for ($Free.99), in a recent patch (The 4.5.0 update), they added a finale function that I'm sure those of you who used finale would appreciate. The old "Input by Duration" writing mode. arrow keys up/down change pitch within the scale of the selected key signature, and simply pressing 1-7 gives you all note durations and typing a number will result in writing a note at the selected pitch, as the corresponding duration to whatever number was pressed. They also included a percussion table-input method (Which can be reverted to legacy input, via the preferences menu), which allows for both midi or mouse input. Also helps if you use a touch screen laptop device, with it having larger action buttons on screen, reducing mis-inputs from the inaccuracy of using a finger tip. They don't have things like Tempo tap or anything like that (Which I wish they'd add at some point.) But whatever functions that you want to have in the software, all you need to do is submit a request via Github. The Open Source Development team is very responsive and attentive to user requests, from my experience. They've worked very hard on a software that's 100% free to use without any sort of adware or inconvenient issues, once you set it all up. They even have a sound-library store via MuseHub but their in-house VST sounds are quite natural as they are. Personally I've mixed their in-house library with both Spitfire LABS and MuseHub's Vienna Brass library. (+ a Spitfire Felt Piano sound from MuseHub as well). Some of the sounds available on their library shop, I feel, need a lot of attention, but if you ever purchase one and are not satisfied with it, the refund process is very fast and easy to complete. I don't know. I know musescore can often be overlooked simply because it's a free open source software that many amateurs use, but I've been a user since MS2, and I have to say, it's been able to do 9/10 of the things I've wanted it to do, and then some. There's plenty of tools for professional engraving, and if there isn't a tool directly available for what you want to do, there's so many properties that can be edited for each element on the page, that you can make things move where you'd like them to go. My only complaint is that the program isn't that good at correcting accidentals with the "Optimize Inharmonic Spelling" function... It will simply change them all to b / bb or # / x markings depending on the key signature of the section selected. Other than that, I don't have many gripes at all about it. I've used Finale, Trial version, a handful of times, have test run Dorico and Sibelius through my peers, and after spending a couple hours on each, I still desired to use MS4.5. Either because it feels natural after so many years of using it, or, because in my opinion, it's a better program. Either way, I stand by it.. lol

I'm late seeing this post in here, but @Alex Weidmann if you hadn't already found it, I assume you're looking to condense scores in MS4.5. Way to do that easily is to click Format > Page Settings... > Scaling > Staff Space (sp): ___ (Down for smaller staves, up for larger staves).

I will be lazy on this forum, because I think the mods want it to be some kind of academic thesis! Archived! I am 56, with two theory and composition degrees! Too academic and pedantic for me to comment too much! Try this... Three Roads Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight