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mmmh, warmth, the thing that one can feel, the snug and fuzzy and cozy feeling deep down inside, the senses you feel as you walk through fallen yellow leaves in autumn, maybe at start of a new chapter in one's life. i can definitely say for certain that this piece invokes exactly that. this style is simple and direct. it communicates effectively with the listeners about what it wants to express. unfortunately, as with @ComposaBoi , im not into this style very much. thats why im giving you low scores in originality and taste (sorryyyyy) the themes are presented clearly and the interplay between the instruments are balanced. the middle section kinda wanders a bit but the recognizable theme pulls it back. score is pretty clear, i do agree with @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu with the two repeated notes staccato instead of the tremolos. i guess you can do with the tremolos but instead of one staccato dot, its two. though i do prefer the first option. Melodies Themes Motives 10 Harmony Chords Textures 6 Form Development Structure Time 7 Originality Creativity 5 Score Presentation 9 Instrumentation Orchestration Playability 10 Execution of Given Challenge 10 Taste 4 Average Score: 7.75

Hello @ferrum.wav , thank you for your kindly review of my piece. I’m pleased that you could follow the imagination and story I wanted to depict musically! Since there was still plenty of space on the score, I decided to follow the example of @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu 's “Joking Fugue on Jingle Bell …", which also includes such humorous comments ... Yes, that’s right. Even though this is a new composition for the competition, I just started to compose the piece for piano solo (to include it in my collection of preludes and fugues) and then „enriched“ the piece with the further instrumentation by the strings. Therefore, the main texture is performed by the piano(s) alone and the strings serve to create more „color“ or „soundscapes“. However, there is a theme or motif in the “Nightingale” B section, played by the strings (measures 35–37 by the cello and measures 44–47 by the violin), that does not appear in the prelude for solo piano.

Hello all. I had a really hard time figuring out what to do. I had a piece I wrote a while ago about Princess Tuvstarr and Skutt the Elk, where a geological formation called a tarn has an important role, but I decided I need to practice writing things for a deadline, so I needed some new idea. For those that don't know, I am ethnically largely Romanian (though I live in the US), so I settled on some Romanian landscape, and what better than the Carpathian Mountains! In fact, I had a drawing I made a while ago of a Romanian Shepherd (obviously as a furry, if you know me at all) in the mountains playing a Taragot - which sounds like a mix between an English Horn and a Soprano Saxophone. There's an old Romanian tale of a shepherd who lost his sheep, so I wrote this piece following that theme: a shepherd lamenting the loss of his sheep. Please enjoy :) Audio.mp3 Score.pdf