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Thanks guys. I just wanted the Shortest Christmas Piece award 😉! It probably took me longer to create the video than it did the actual composition haha. But hey, you guys get to see what Music Jotter is like in action. I'll be composing more once Music Jotter is ready for beta testing (soon).

🎄🌲🎄🌲---=== It's time for our annual Christmas Music Event!!! ===--- 🎄🌲🎄🌲 It's that season of the year again and time to write music in your adored wintry (or summery for those in the southern hemisphere), Christmas-y, Hanukkah-y, or Kwanzaa-y style! The only rule is that this is not a competition!!! So please review the pieces casually, only using the competition reviewing template on those who have expressed a desire/interest in having their music reviewed in this way! 🎅 In this event - anything goes! Submit music in the spirit of the holiday season of any duration or instrumentation! There will be badges given out for all the participants, of course! We will also give out "Ardent Reviewer" badges for those who take it upon themselves to review all the participants' music! You do not have to review any AI-generated works in order to receive the "Ardent Reviewer" badge. This thread will double as the submissions thread as well as the event announcement. Please post only links to your music posted elsewhere in the forum (so that it may be properly reviewed in its own dedicated topic). The following members have thus far expressed interest in participating: @PeterthePapercomPoser @Monarcheon @TristanTheTristan @AngelCityOutlaw @PCC @Crescent Roulade @Mooravioli @Wieland Handke @gaspard @therealAJGS @Vavrinec @Vonias @HoYin Cheung @Musicman_3254 @raymond doerr @Tunndy The event opens on Black Friday, right after Thanksgiving! And closes on December 31st! Excited to see what we all come up with this year! It is now 2026 and the Christmas Music Event is closed to further submissions! Check out the conclusion of the event here:

I started this piece this morning and managed to finish it this evening! My inspiration was to write a fast Christmas piece as my pieces lately have all veered towards the same slow tempo. The form of the Scherzo is ternary and the overall form is Scherzo - Trio - Scherzo. Thanks for listening and I'd appreciate any of your comments, suggestions, critiques or observations!

From 2023. computer with the original music score died from water damage unfortunately so there is no score. This was the most Christmas like song on my channel that I could find.

To be honest, I had to quickly look up the Bible to make sure which verse John 14:6 is—yes, that's right. You have a mission and used a rock-song to spread the gospel – possibly reaching people who are not familiar with classical music. For me – considering me being a religious person, too – I prefer the quieter approach, meaning that an oratorio like Haendel’s Messiah or Bach's Christmas Oratorio touches me more than every sermon. Thus the YCF 2025 Christmas event is the perfect place to share pieces reminding to the birth of Christ, as many submissions with their carols, pastorals, motettes etc. are. Concerning the piece, I don’t want to reiterate the discussion about using AI. Yes, I must admit that I’m impressed of the result one can achieve by the usage of, for example, Suno. It sounds „perfect“ and will appeal to those whose tastes it suits. Just one quote: Since I’m relatively new on the Young Composers Forum, too, I have learned (I think this is correct) that the purpose of the forum is not only to share submissions, but to review them and give feedback, which is what each of us composers wants and needs. Thus, reaching a rank of or beyond an „Elite Composer“ is not necessarily depending on posting numerous outstanding works, but also on consistently and patiently listening to the submitted works and providing insightful and polite feedback. I can assure you that everyone can trust that shortly after a publication, there will be feedback from the “hosts” or “moderators”, especially @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu and @PeterthePapercomPoser, even if no one else bothers to review the piece. And stating that the „service by clicking a button“ is a bit poor in comparison with those spending dozens of hours in composing, arranging, engraving etc. should not be considered as „blasphemy“, but is due to the heated debate surrounding the use of AI.

Even if you call it an orchestral miniature (and it is short, indeed), it is a wonderful, well structured and perfectly orchestrated piece that I could listen multiple times in a loop! It brings up a number of imaginations in my mind, closely related with the Christmas time: • It could be serve perfectly as a soundtrack of a fairy tale movie that the entire family could watch together, • I imagine it being played at a Christmas market with an ice rink in the middle (the trio section, mm. 17-32), • it also cites the imagination of the „one-horse open sleigh dashing thru the snow“ (mm. 33-48), • and, of course, the snowflakes (main theme, mm. 1-7). One of my absolute favorites in this 2025 Christmas event!

It’s just a fun fact that I grew up in a little German town called Pulsnitz being famous (at least in parts of Germany) of its centuries-old tradition of gingerbread making. But honestly, I just know how they taste like, I never cared about what they might „sound“ like. Now listening to it, it reminds me of a musical box which is a typical handcrafted Christmas accessory. So it really puts me in the Christmas spirit by combining its cheerful sound, despite its repetitions, with the smell of mulled wine, grilled sausages, and even gingerbread at a Christmas market.

I would have so much fun with this tool. But you wrote a fun song with bold key changing and fun harmony. I like how the violin creates friction, but only through your modulations. You then normalize the harmony once SATB comes in. You are right, the lyrics are sometimes a bit garbled, but I would say it's about 90% accurate. It doesn't matter though, most people will get the idea. The lyrics may be less accurate than Suno in terms of vocals, but the trade-off is that you get 100% compositional freedom.

Fun depiction of such an ancient carol. Love how the soprano has a mind of its own though; we can basically call this the disruptor. It blends nicely, but also ads some friction to this well harmonized tune.

Yeah, that one would surely be awarded the „Shortest Christmas Piece“ badge (haha), thus it isn’t easy to come up with a long review on that. Even though it's certainly just for fun, such a mashup shows the potential of „simple melodies“ and how much one can do with an easy piece using counterpoint, harmonization, instrumentation, etc. Thanks for making this fun Christmas event possible, and a happy and successful New Year 2026.

We still have until Thursday, January 1st, 2026 before the Christmas Event closes! So get your reviews in to receive the "2025 Christmas Reviewer" Award! - (you don't have to review AI generated works to receive this badge) And all the participants will be receiving the "2025 Christmas Participant" award! -

Thank you comment! I can see what you by cadence. I will get there: i promise.

Mike this one is funny! The mashup doesn't sound too off together and well fitted to the Xmas mood haha. Henry

Hi @Crescent Roulade! This Christmas piece gives me a Chinese feeling because of its use of pentatonic notes. I do enjoy this little piece! Like @PeterthePapercomPoser said I perceive the melody to begin rather on beat than in syncopation, and in 4/4 time than 8/4 time. Thx for joining the event! Henry

Ohhh, so short but so expressive... I'm a huge fan of these mashups!

It’s a really lovely piece and it gives me Christmas vibes for some reason. Even if it’s not perfectly written, that percussion set sounds amazing.

Thanks Wieland, That’s just one of my albums, my other album is more chill. I plan on using my lyrics combined with Suno, to reach many different genres from quiet to loud since everyone has different tastes. I also publish my music so when I am dead, it will exist all the way to the day that God judges the world and creates a new heaven and a new earth. I spend hours and days writing my lyrics and setting up Suno to generate songs for me until I feel like the song is good, so even though I just press a button. There’s a lot more buttons, thoughts, feelings and time being spent before that final button is pushed to generate a song. I called Henry blasphemous because he used the Lords’ Name in vain and he was mocking me using the Lord. To me, any time somebody uses the Lords’ Name and they aren’t praising Him, praying to Him, sharing His word or anything along those lines, that person is using His Name in a vain way. That is why I called Henry blasphemous because not only was he not doing any of those things, he was assuming what God thinks and is speaking for Him concerning on the work that I am doing. I hope that clears up any misunderstandings. Here is one of my other songs of a different genre from my album Genesis. It’s a story album and this song is the ending.

can't meet deadline sorry