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A short song I wrote in two days. Do you guys have any critique on any "breathing issues" that may arise? Also do you think it ends too abruptly, or is it okay for a short piece? Though it's mostly classical, do tell me if it works in your opinion. Note: I usually sing my own songs if I can--but this one was way too difficult for my cigarette-smoking, untrained throat to handle XD. So I used an AI-based vocaloid sort of. (Yeah, I kind of feel guilty for using an AI vocaloid, but everything else just sounds so trash, I wanna tear my hair out. Sorry ;_;)

If you like that ...you might like this: Scoring to Film, can be an inspiration Booster, and Of course the Title theme name,and transitions, can be changed accordingly.

Imagine being in St. Olaf Choir, a pretty decent college choir, and having to sing THAT for anyone's birthday...☹️ The St. Olaf Choir - "Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe"

Well, Beethoven practically loved "God Save the King." Best national anthems I am familiar with are the Russian and Canadian. Oh yes; Haydn's Austrian/Nazi/German anthem. Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser [Imperial anthem][+English translation]

Thanks Peter. I've been told the harmonies in the bass clarinet with two bassoons sound rather heavy: so I'm going to modify those when I can get round to it. Will try Henry's suggestion of putting the melody in the violins too, for more timbral variety.

Yes, now it looks fine! The chords and intervals in each hand can be clearly recognized. I would also decide to have the beam nearer to the majority of the notes and adjusting the length of the stems is obviously driven by the means to avoid collisions with the dynamic marks – what you’ve well done in the example. I have also not read „Behind Bars“ and other standard literature concerning engraving. I usually try to follow my aesthetic feeling which has been taught by the good old hand-engraved editions, for example the Mugellini edition of the Welltempered Clavier (Breitkopf & Härtel) which I use to play from. For my note engraving I do not use MuseScore (or other software with a graphical user interface) but lilypond (which has a different approach, you’re typing the score in a sort of „software“ source code in a simple text file and lilypond „compiles“ it to a .pdf and .midi file). However, that might not be everyone’s preference how to work when composing, there is an interesting „essay“ from the lilypond creators concerning what make it so difficult to let scores produced by computer programs look as satisfying as the hand-engraved ones.

Love that!!!

Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 8.5 9 8 8 9 10 8 9.5 This gives me a spooky romantic vibe. Perhaps lost souls on Halloween trying to find love or meaning to existence. It's very enjoyable to listen to not only because of how emotional this is, but because this type of harmony resonates well with me. Furthermore, I find this piece to be well structured, and easy to follow. I love how you break up the momentum at around 1:20. As a YouTuber, I learned that this is incredibly important to do on longer videos. Especially with the the shorter attention spans these days. Melody and Motive + Harmony: I just find these to be very clear throughout your piece, with logical breaks and great emotional supporting harmony. Form and Creativity: Highly structured, easy to follow. Score presentation + Playability: Beautiful score and this seems very playable. Execution and Taste: This is a highly romantic piece that does give off Halloween vibes, and I resonate well with this style.

Probably my best/most expressive work so far. I would love to get a feedback on this!