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Hi, Daily I often hear music by beginners attempting to imitate the 18th century masters and its understandable, they are like heros to many musicians and budding composers. A word of caution though, it may be better to say that your composition aims to imitate the late classical style otherwise you'll create an expectation in the listener to compare your work with what they have heard from the masters themselves and this would be an unfair comparison. I think its great that you included your composition teacher's remarks and that you have shared your revised composition. Although I disagree with your teacher's appraisal that your music is 'very much in the style'. There are elements in your music that reflect your exposure and understanding of the classical style but there seems to be a lack of clear form in your pieces. There are harmonic progressions that are foreign to the period with harsh dissonance that disrupt the flow of good music that preceded it. Overall I sense a lack of structure and an ambition beyond the experience and skill necessary to pull it off. Many student composers may not be aware of the sheer volume of simple dance forms composers in the 18th century composed in order to get to grips with form, melody, and harmony. Beginning first by learning to play minuets on the keyboard as children and then composing their own after understanding the recurring patterns observed and discussed at the keyboard. I mention this because I believe in order to develop your skills as a composer its best at first not to give yourself a blank manuscript with the permission to compose whatever musical thoughts happen to arise but to begin with a chosen form that you've studied and have the self discipline to keep to otherwise the result often will be a collage of ideas that don't really achieve the effect you are looking for. Minuets are a great place to start if you want to learn the classical style, they won't give you a chance to be flashy but they will provide a disciplined approach to learning melody and harmony in order to progress to more interesting forms. Of course if you are just a casual composer and having fun with midi software and don't care for creating authentic sounding music of the period then disregard my comments. I don't mean to harsh or discouraging, I think you have great ideas in your piece and with good instruction you could channel those ideas into very listenable pieces and develop your style. I took a look at the beginning of your piece and tweaked it to be more in the style in order for you to compare. I would avoid changing time signatures and tempos during a piece when you first start out composing. Keep it simple. I changed the piece to begin on the tonic and did this for the main theme too. A simple alberti bass is a great place to start for carrying a melody in the classical style.

I composed this piece a few months ago but was struggling to play the two faster variations so I asked a friend to play and record the piece. He is a composer and retired professor from Toronto. He added ornamentation to the repeats in the recording and gave me great feedback to help polish the piece.

Hi all, this is one of my current projects. It is not finished and the engraving is not finished also. The work is not flowing as easily as some of my other projects. This piece is an orchestration of a composition I composed for violin and piano. All comments/suggestions/advice are welcome.

Thanks a lot, Peter, glad you liked it!! 😄 Yep, I couldn't understand the pronunciation either, so I decided to use random words that sound good, haha 😅 First and last parts: Sky map star black shot not Sky map star black shot not far Sky map star black shot not far Sky star Sky not far dark star Star Middle Part: Sky not far Sky is star Sky not far Sky Sky not far Sky is star Star

I can't understand the words - could you post them here? It's a beautiful female speech synth - and a beautiful melody you composed for it! You have a gift for simple and accessible melody. The pauses in between the phrases do not take away from the sense of a whole. Great job!

The B section of the March is quite demanding to play and we decided to leave it out. I composed two other variations initially but trimmed it down. I considered leaving out repeats but I think I would have to choose either no repeats or all repeats save for the ending. My plan going forward is to compose at my own level of piano ability so that I can upload live performances. I composed a trio to my latest minuet in F and I'm trying to record me playing it; its quite a frustrating endeavour. As soon as I press record I make a mistake, often near the end which makes it worse because I was almost there!

This is just amazing from start to finish. Wow! :0

The score-video channel thenamisgsarci just posted my Lacrimosa! Also, I am now selling a beautiful printed score of the piece, in case anyone wants to support me: https://www.dropbox.com/home/Music Renewal/Lacrimosa. Please contact me privately for more details.

It's a beautiful piece. And yeah, I agree with @Papageno that maybe you should ascend with the motif from Bar 5. One question though, why is it called Fantasy in D when it is in D minor? It ends with a D major chord, sure, might even end with a whole D major section. But it starts in D minor and that's what dictates the key of the piece, so it should be Fantasy in D minor. And speaking of D minor fantasies, your fantasy reminds me of this Mozart fantasia:

Its beautiful, a dreamy and melancholic beginning, I particularly like the motif in bar 5 which I think could be developed in the next bar of your piece but maybe with a different pattern in the left hand for a bit more variety. The piece is descending so it makes sense to ascend next perhaps using a sequence with the bar 5 motif I mentioned. I look forward to hearing more whatever you decide to do 🙂