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Hey everyone! I'm inviting you to check my new piano solo "Wasted Tears"

Hi Jian, I'd say that 4th is dissonant considered in an harmonic superposition rather than as an interval wether it be in the bass or in the soprano. In Fig.73 b. 7 it implies a chord of Fmajor b4-5 it's actually present in the Tenor D to G 4th as a succession of two notes will be part of a lot of leaps inside a chord (from fifth to fundamental) or common chord succession (circle of fifth, cadences etc...) You won't found, however, both notes of a 4th between to voices attacked at the same time. 4th can appear in certain circumstances from passing notes and results from the incompletion of implied chords [A1]. Dissonnances will be aug4th dim5th, maj7, min7 (from memory I've never seen an interval above the octave in Baroque counterpoint or it would result from exeptionals circumstances). I'd say that, maybe not in Fux's rigorous counterpoint, aug5th is possible if resolved towards the interior of the interval [A2]. I hope it is helpful ☔

Hi everyone, I'm in the process of uploading as much of my music as I can on youtube, cuz what good does it do sitting around in my computer huh? Anyway, here's my second piano sonata as it was performed in 2016. It's divided into 3 movements and all three movements are following the typical sonata-form conventions to some degree or another. It took around 4 months to write the score and around 6 months in rehearsal time to get it performed to an acceptable degree. The third movement is specially challenging, but I think it sounds cool. Either way, have fun.

Hello! I wanted to share with you a waltz suite I finished. I made it for a lady who really enjoys having fun, dancing, talkinig, being herself, and overall enjoys life. I will play it for her when the time comes. But for now, I will share it here. Let me know what you think! I hope you enjoy it and it makes you feel like if you were in a 19th century ball. And yes, waltz 3B is inspired by Strauss II Die Fledermaus Overture 🙂 Ps. Ignore my lame attempt in the youtube video when I tried to make a NAXOS video with that image.

Hi everyone! This is a short piece I composed recently. Let me know your thoughts!

Hi! Here are two preludes I've written (working on more). The G minor was written improvised and bears some resemblance to the Chopin Prelude in E minor. The E flat minor was an old sketch that I went back and revisited. Feedback would be wonderful, as it helps me improve my own writing.

Much has been said already although I quite liked the E minor one. You have big hands evidently! These are closer to Chopin or Debussian preludes rather than traditional ones that announced a player was ready to start. They'd play a short, sharp piece to grab the audience attention and stop it talking, coughing etc! Example: Liszt's Transcendental Study No 1. The E minor one came over closer to Debussy than Chopin with the parallel 5ths. The G minor one suffered severe problems of rendering about which PeterthePaperComposer has spoken. It needs judicious pedal and a lot more dynamic variation in the left hand during each bar as well as from bar to bar. When you've tamed your software you can think about this. The tune is good and the harmony varied enough for a piece this length. But I really feel the ending was abrupt. It needs extension by just a few more bars to ramp it down to a final chord. All good then. Hoping you don't mind my saying so, your composing skills will improve if you can find out how to add pedal and vary the dynamics. Spending time with the dynamics pays off enormously.

Alright, I made some revisions to my piece. Not everything with the MIDI version is perfect (gradual tempo changes straight up don't work), and when I tried to add dynamics my computer crashed so there isn't any of that here either. But hopefully this will at least give you an idea as to where this thing is going.

Fast speed doesn't exclude Nocturne from the list of possible titles. Nocturne just means "a piece of music that gets across some aspect of the night", So the fast speed combined with the minor key could be getting across a nightmare, which makes it deserving to be called a Nocturne.

Pretty good, was pleasant to listen to, unfortunately I'm pretty much a troglodyte when it comes to writting for larger ensembles so I can't give a good critize, even less without sheet. But for what I heard I think you did pretty well with your themes, maybe they sound a little stereotypical of what you will hear in a waltz but somehow you managed to make them sound original, the only criticize I have is that sisincu have multiiple insitruments, you should try to make the repetitions of the main theme a little different each timieee, that ttwill help to keep a simple piece like a waltz pretty insteresting at all times. You can hear something like this in shostakovich waltz no.2 to put an example. Overall good work, keep composing :3.

I think it's for any outer voice interval considered dissonant and it's only allowed for inner voice - inner voice intervals as a consonance. So for 4 part writing that would mean a fourth in any of these intervals is bad news: Soprano - Bass Alto - Bass Tenor - Bass Soprano - Alto Soprano - Tenor And only this fourth is allowed as a consonance: Alto - Tenor Don't quote me on that though.

If I remember correctly a 4th is only considered dissonant if it is the bottom-most interval in a sonority. If however, as in this case, the 4th is the top-most interval, it is considered consonant. Don't quote me on that LoL - it's been a while since I've done Fux counterpoint exercises.

I enjoyed this work very much. I with agree with the above comments that there are Spanish motifs that work well with this Tango. Thanks for sharing. I loved the inclusion of the bandoneon.

Yes, beautiful piece. Sometimes it has more spanish gestures here and there, which blend quite well. The sound of the acordeón (or bandoneón) is good, but the piano and background sounds a bit muddy. It's not a composition issue, just a thing of the virtual instruments. Thanks for sharing.

one of my favorite pieces on YC!