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I have already uploaded March and April from my Spring Trilogy, here is the finale, May. Since this month is traditionally rainy in Slovenia, the beginning has some features of rain with various aleatoric timbre playing on orchestra, while cello brings the initial melodic motif with its various transformations. Music becomes more "down to earth", more energetic and passionate. It continues to bounce between these two contrasting characters and ends with cellist playing improvised harmonics of a basic tone of c with unisono violins and violas while lower strings play some low ranged aleatoric pizzicatos.

I never read books on my shelf lol!!!

Just make some things. The making will lead to questions, and the combination of the questions, and the practice making will make you better over time. Don't be afraid to get started. Don't expect to be any good. You WILL be bad at this, because you have never done it before, so go ahead and start and just have fun! We call it "playing" music, so play! 🙂

I have moved on to Chapter 7 of Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" which covers polychords. The prompt for the piece was "4. Extend the polychordal passage for piano:" Thanks for listening and I'd appreciate any of your comments!

Hi @Vasilis Michael, As I mentioned in YouTube the influence of the slow movement in Schubert’s D960 is quite notable here! (As well as the same key of D959 slow movement) The turn to a surprising F minor chord and subsequent F# minor return is a good use of the interchangeability of Dom 7th and Ger 6th chord like Schubert’s usage of them! The rhythmic usage also reminds me of Schubert, as well as the ending! Thx for sharing. Henry

This sounds like an interesting and inventive subversion of a waltz. I'm curious why you describe it as two movements, though. I guess you're considering a new movement to start at m. 106, but it's in the same tempo and style. Also, you probably know this, but the stuff in the right hand at m. 158 and forward would normally be written as tremolos. I assume you wrote out the notes so that the notation software played it back correctly, but in such cases I'll usually prepare separate versions of the score for playback and for display.

LoL - I looked on my secret bookshelf in my closet and I realized that I have some great musical books in there that not even *I* have read! "Musical Form and Analysis" by Spring, Hutcheson "The Development of Western Music" - A History by K. Marie Stolba "Orchestration" by Cecil Forsyth (only read fragments - quite funny!) "The Technique of Orchestration" - Sixth Edition by Kent Kennan, Donald Grantham "The Lives of the Great Composers" - Third Edition by Harold C. Schonberg "The Virtuoso Conductors" by Raymond Holden "Twentieth-Century Music" - A History of Musical Style in Modern Europe and America by Robert P. Morgan "Counterpoint" - Fourth Edition by Kent Kennan (haven't read yet) "Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life" - Selected Letters Edited and Newly Translated by Robert Spaethling (haven't read yet) "Music in the Galant Style" by Robert Gjerdingen (which I'm still in the middle of reading) And a bonus book that isn't a theory/history text: "The Music Lesson - A Spritual Search for Growth through Music" by Victor L. Wooten Enjoy! Peter