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He's a "moody" work ... for a contemplative day in another time.

Thanks, @Snake_Cake! I'm glad you liked it and the performance! I've never heard that term "YARB" before (though I'm not a big Reddit user), but I can still respect attempts to write romantic music. It's not easy to write successful romantic music, blending harmonic beauty, emotion, depth, and creativity, into a flowing and sound piece of music, but I'm glad you thought my piece was successful!

Hello all, I have a question regarding pick-up measures and how to go ahead with it in Finale 2009. When I start a piece with a pick-up measure, I am supposed to end my composition with a measure equalling the number of beats minus those put in the pick-up measure, as you all well know. Hence, the last measure in 4/4 becomes 4/4 minus the pick-up (let us sau 1/4), hence in the example cited here it is 3/4 for the last bar. Although I have the pick-measure at the beginning of my piece (e.g. one beat), I cannot figure out what to do to force finale into a last bar of e.g. 3/4. Finale will automatically put a rest on the fourth beat. Hence my appeal to you all: how do I proceed technically in Finale to create a proper last measure. Thanks all for your reaction, WS

Very, very nice. I sense there are many people that want to write some Romantic piece, I think extremely few actually succeed. On the composer subreddit there's even a name for this: "YARB" (yet another Romantic behemoth). Your pieces seem to be the strange exception, this is very finely crafted and yet expressive. Congrats on the performance!

very nice piece. You are proceeding very cautiously and confidently. the ornaments in the performance add vitality to the piece

Philip Glass philipglass.com Philip Glass is an American composer and pianist. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential composers of the late 20th century. Glass's work has been associated with minimalism, being built up from repetitive phrases and shifting layers.Wikipedia Born:January 31, 1937, Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Genres:Minimalism, contemporary classical, film score

OK so, first things first, the quality of the playing in the recording is top notch, but sadly the quality of the recording itself leaves a lot to be desired. Too bad. Second, I think the score needs a lot of work. It's weirdly spaced and there's a lot of stuff that needs to be removed and edited. Additionally, it would help to have clear markings when each variation starts (along with the number.) Right now everything is just glued together and it's not pretty to read. Also, the score is lacking any dynamics, even if the recording actually has them to some degree (but then again not as much as it should be, leading to the whole thing sounding sort of flat.) And on that note, I think the musical material is handled with competence, but it lacks a great deal of the experimental nature of what variations were meant to have back in the vienna classic. Take Mozart's Variations on a Minuet by Duport, K.573 (written in 1789,) which has some pretty wild sections (the coda specially) and obviously something like Beethoven's 32 Variations in C minor (WoO 80 from 1806) really stands out as being an extreme example. In contrast, your piece is adequate in the language, but it's too safe and thus ends up feeling more like an academic exercise. I think that this is a fundamental issue with your piece here rather than something that you can just fix. I'd advise for the next variation cycle that you take a lot more liberties, both with rhythm as well as with the register changes and tempo differences. Also, it'd be cool if you took a note from Beethoven's C minor variations and linked the variations together in a sort of overarching structure, it makes the piece that much more interesting.

This is how you do it. (finale expert in the house) You go to simple entry (which is the picture of the note on the left keypad). Then from the top menu, you will click "Simple". Click "Simple Entry Options..." UNCLICK "fill with rests at the end of measures". And, now you can write incomplete measures. Be careful, though, that you do not forget to put rests in where you DO need them at the end of measures. haha. Merry Christmas.