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I was just listening to some of the dances I've composed when I realized that I don't yet have a Sarabande written so I decided to write one! I wrote this in basically like two days on paper. A Sarabande is a slow dance originating in Spain. It's usually in binary or variations form, without any pick-ups, in 3/4 or 3/2 meter and stresses the 2nd beat. I hope you enjoy this one as I had fun writing it! I've been told it modulates somewhat unexpectedly sometimes - but I didn't intend to keep it strictly Baroque by any means. I just wanted to preserve the dance rhythms and write something that could actually be danced to. Thanks for listening and I'd appreciate any feedback you're willing to give!

Its been exactly 1 year since I started to get into composing... since I am a self taught composer who comes from a sting background, I lack the knowledge of good orchestration when it comes to Brass and Woodwind sections. lol The following is a piece I've been working on for almost 2 months and I've realized ,when looking at the sore, that the Woodwind section seems a bit naked and stripped away from its potential. If you can, please leave suggestions on what I can implement or scratch from the piece in order to make it more solidified!!

Here I bring you a new piece I composed long ago. I plan to keep uploading the old ones I did, for now listen this one that I composed for a special person to say good morning!:

Hey all, My friend introduced me to this forum and so he suggested me to give this a shot so here goes nothing! I attached below a piece of mine called "The White Space" as well as some explanations for some of the things and notations in it. I know there are some areas that need improvement, but my teacher doesn't really provide the most clearest of feedback, so was wondering if y'all could me out? (Also, the time limit for this is around 5 mins and so yeah use that information if it helps? bleh) Anyways, cheers, and happy composing!

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Congratulations! Very nice and pleasant piece. I'm not a pro, hence I can't give you a technical opinion, but for my taste it is a very enjoyable sarabande. Cheers.

Thank you for your kind comments! You're right that Sarabande's being usually so slow, include much more written out ornamentation using 32nd and sometimes even 64th notes but that usually happens in the instrumental versions of the dances that don't try to preserve the dance rhythms and instead use the dance forms to create new pieces for a given instrument that don't sound very dance-like (at least in my experience). What I didn't mention is that I spent the last 2 weeks searching aimlessly and with a dearth of inspiration for the next thing that I might compose. I am glad that I have a large variety of different dances to fall back on (there's also plenty of dances one could compose that aren't part of the traditional Baroque Dance Suite such as the Tango or the Equadorian Pasillo ... and then there's the more ancient dances like the pavane, galliarde etc.) One could also try to modernize the old dances somehow .. ??? Anyways - I'm glad I just found something to compose!

Really enjoyable! The piece is indeed a good one to dance to! The unexpected modulations did not bother me at all and I think the whole piece flowed really nicely. In my case, instead of variety on the dynamics, I missed some variety in the rhythm during the second part (like some few bars in which tension was created by an instrument playing consistently in 32nd notes). Really nice and impressive that you composed it so fast!

Thanks! No - unfortunately I just didn't write any dynamics into this piece besides the obligatory balance of the various voices. I'm somewhat happy with how the piece turned out even without dynamics. I think I am used to not necessarily having dynamics in these dances because the dynamic range of various instruments that would usually perform them was either non-existent or miniscule (such as the lute and harpsichord for example). Although I guess I could have given some of the phrases more meaning by including crescendos or decrescendos. I know my Gavotte in C does have dynamics and it's much improved thanks to them so I should probably have thought about dynamics when writing this piece. Anyways - thanks for listening and for your comments!

Very elegant! It's a lot like when romantic composers dabble in baroque forms, producing very interesting results. I like it. I just wish it had some more diverse dynamics than just mf-f, but perhaps you were planning on adding more later? Anyway, nice piece! I enjoyed it very much!

This is incredible

Hi, Jorge. Really impressive! I like your minuet to begin with and orchestrating it was a nice touch! I really like the interplay between the strings and the woodwind. Overall it has the character of a movie score, I can imagine a scene from the beginning of a kids movie.