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Here my new piano piece in Romantic style. Does a Bagatelle fit with the character? I'm not sure of the title. Any feedbacks are wellcome.

Nice! I definitely get a baroque dance feel from this piece. The melodies are nice and catchy and you develop the motives very well. I think it works fine. An alternative I thought of would be to use the below motive in some kind of cadential form, since it's so important throughout the piece. Perhaps instead of the descending scale at m.64, insert this motive and end on the tonic? Another idea would be to end on a picardy third, since the piece has been solidly minor throughout. I also really like your counterpoint, you do a really good job passing the motives between voices and keeping each part independent and interesting. There are a couple spots, like m.11 and m.15 where the 1st Violins and Cellos move in seconds, but these happen pretty quick and are hard to notice. The only question I have is on the bass notes in m.51 and 53. In m.51 the violins and viola seem to imply a C major chord, but the cello and bass are playing F on the downbeat, would it make sense to have the low voices play C instead? Likewise in m.53 the upper strings seem to imply Bb minor (or maybe G dim?) so maybe have the cello and bass play Bb on the downbeat? This would also allow the bass to ascend chromatically from m.53-55. Is the playback directly from your notation software, or did you use a DAW? They sound a little dry to me, I think a small amount of reverb and maybe some panning would make it sound even better. Thanks for sharing! The only thing I might add is some harpsichord, but maybe that's just me 🙂

@luderart it sounds very nice to me. Though you are moving the basse in paralell octaves with the tipler at times the harmony sounds interesting. I like the low register and the mood. Thanks for sharing!

No one said it was "bad", mate. Just some suggestions on what I think could be improved on 👍

@ClasiCompose Also - I hope you noticed I used Sonatina Symphonic Orchestra to record this. I have to say I'm much more satisfied with the responsiveness of the string ensemble soundfonts. Thanks for referring me to it! It's proved a great help.

Hi pateceramics I remember hearing some of your music from a while ago when I was active here, and from what I can remember it sounds like you've become quite the choral composer. Your score looks beautiful; as someone who doesn't write choral music, it's nice to see it laid out so clear and easy to follow. I really like your use of dynamics. You use the choir well, giving different voices their chance to stand out a bit. I think vocal music suffers the most from midi sound samples, and definitely doesn't do your piece justice. Are you part of a choir or do you know of one that would perform this? Anything written as clearly as your piece shouldn't be too difficult to sight read! I like the toying with the motifs at 35 too. You actually sent me down a rabbit hole when I was looking up the lyrics haha. I don't go to church, but I'm fascinated with religion, especially really old texts. Admittedly I haven't read through Song of Songs all the way through, so it was cool to jump into for a bit. All in all, glad to see and hear that you're still around and writing! Great work, I look forward to more

Lovely! I'd like to know what the words are as well! You use every inch of the standard soprano range here. This piece will be a lovely show piece for many singers, but you would open your works up to more voices and potentially increase the number of performances, and the quality of those performances if you were slightly more conservative in your use of range for future pieces. For singers, the body is the instrument. If you have even a little cold, you tend to lose the extremes of your range for a few days. If you want to go this high, but don't also go quite so low, singers and their pianists can do an emergency transposition down a step if necessary, without bottoming out. You could also provide a transposition in a key suitable for mezzo voice, and pick up a few more performances. This is great!