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Hi @Uhor! I love this piece! It gives an antique feeling but the language is modern, just like Vaughn Williams's approach. I like in 2:21 you reach that calm and really sacred passage (the chant?). The violin melody in 2:39 is really touching. Normally I would feel bored by the brass passage but the one in 3:54 doesn't bore me at all, because there is real solemnity here. What I think of is maybe you can add an organ here till the end as well. I enjoy the ending too. No one is "too old" for our forum! As long as we keep learning and progressing no one is old. This forum is for anyone who is willing to mutually communicate on each other's music. Only those who stop learning and consider themselves the best are old. You can continuously submit pieces to our forum! Thx for sharing! Henry

Hello All! 😀 In this post i present my composition called "Land Of Gods". It is not finished yet from an orchestration point, but i believe with the current score you can feel and understand its musical content. It is purpose is to convey the awe, the majesty , the grandeur, and the influence of the ancient deities of ancient Greece. The mighty gods, untouchable by humans, they are able to influence all aspects in the life of the people. Its dark at times, epic and very melodic. The divine realm, ruling the cosmos, both with good and evil intensions, but never within reach of the mere mortals.

This is an accompanied recitative in the late Baroque style. The text is taken from Goethe's Unbregrenzt (unbounded). I have also attached the aria "Nun Töne Lied". These form a recit-aria pair, part of my WIP cantata.

I don’t have the score for all three of these so bear with me. unfortunately my videography sucks too and i think i often record in a way that makes the instrument sound pingy. anyway, tell me which one you hate the least

As a final composition before I consider myself 'too old' for this forum I composed this Medieval-Renaissance Kyrie of a Mass based on a Royal Gregorian Chant. The counterpoint emphasizes octaves, fifths, fourths and seconds, but it still prioratices independence of voices. Not perfect but hopefully interesting enough.

Hello Folks, this is a 3 movement work I recently finished in my first few weeks of composition lessons. The following three movements are about three leaves as they fall from a tree. For each leaf, a different character is met. These leaves begin in similar places, swaying in the wind, before falling into the world of their character. The first leaf falls and is found by a little kid. This kid plays with the leaf, more excited than any adult could understand. They fly, dance, and eventually sneak together into the house. The second leaf falls and is watched by an old man. The man does not interact with the leaf, but instead is reminded of the beauty and fragility of the world. He remembers his life through this lens. The third leaf falls and is spotted by an angry man, who wants to crush every leaf. The leaf realizes he is coming, and flies with the breeze to escape, before eventually failing.

Seasons Greetings all! Here's a little something I'm cooking up for a concert next year. It's based on the Epitaph of Seikilos, which is the earliest surviving complete song. I tried to give it a flavour of Antiquity, and to create unexpected harmonies. Haven't come up with lyrics yet; though it will start with the original Ancient Greek text translated into English. Maybe my piano part is a bit too thin? Or perhaps I should keep it sparse? The notation is intended for midi, and I'll be adjusting the dynamics upwards by at least one degree for the musicians. When I make the final score, I'm intending to write out the spread stacked chords in full as arpeggios.

From 2023. computer with the original music score died from water damage unfortunately so there is no score. This was the most Christmas like song on my channel that I could find.

Hi @Cafebabe! I like that you are using the French Overture format for the Oratorio with a slow, dotted passage for the A section and then a fugal fast section after it. I think you can fully extend the A section first by making it in Binary structure, instead of just an 8 bar passage. For the fugal passage of course you can extend it to a full fugue. I like the walking rhythm of the 2nd movement. The melody is nice, and probably you can extend the movement by turning it to a ternary Aria. Beware of the parallel 5th in b.4 of Ab-Eb to G-D. Thx for sharing! Henry

I've only recently started this, but I would love to hear suggetions 😄 nutcracker inspired.pdf nutcracker inspired.mp3

Hi! Here are my Two Lullabies for voice and piano. I finished them a couple of days ago for a high school friend of mine. The audio is a MIDI mockup -- I'm just looking for some feedback on the emotional affect of the pieces. Does the trajectory from the first (poem by Dunbar) to the second (poem by Blake) read on its own, or does it require an explanation? I would also love some thoughts on the harmony in this little set...

Hi @mercurypickles! The first one does portrait the dreamy mood with a less firming rhythm of tied triplets, it reminds me how Schumann treat the subject. For the second piece, the thing I like the most is how you treat Ab/G#, play with its ambiguity and put it in F minor/E major, have it resolve till the very end of the work. Thx for sharing! Henry

Dear friends, hello! I'm Zhang Wenhao, a Chinese singer-songwriter. Today, I'm here to share with you a Chinese-style pop love song called "Medicine and Grain Porridge". This song tells the story of a young monk who gets injured while collecting herbs outside the temple and is saved by a tea-picking girl. Later, he falls in love with the girl, but their love is doomed to have no result. There are many regrets in love, and eventually, one has to learn to let go. But it's already precious enough to have met someone. 亲爱的朋友们，大家好！我是来自中国的创作歌手张文灏。这次来跟大家分享的是一首中国风流行情歌，名字叫《药膳粥》。 这首歌曲讲的是一名小和尚出寺采药不慎受伤，被一名采茶女所救，而后对女孩动了凡心，但注定没有结果的爱情故事。爱情中有很多的遗憾，终究要学会释怀，但有些人遇见已经足够珍贵了。 歌词如下/The lyrics are as follows： 作曲/Composed by：张文灏 Zhang Wenhao 作词/Lyrics by：张文灏 Zhang Wenhao 住持心系民疾 广施福泽 僧众出寺采药调配药膳粥 山崖间的薄荷 剩下一棵 我摘取之后失足踩空跌落 醒来身处茶庐 寻声庭中 红衫的你在院落轻哼茶歌 你闻声止歌回眸 脸带羞涩 我罹患上名叫凡心的病魔 红尘里的你 青灯下的我 相识那一刻 就奠定好错过 你身在俗世 我心向禅佛 木鱼经声婆娑 轻诵着奈何 他日再晤面 小僧行礼说 一句女施主 添了愁忖几多 你浅笑细语 我佛珠慢拨 满卷情思都流作清水一钵 丝丝药香弥漫 你的四周 药引是我一抹隐隐的不舍 你捧粥予我喝 伤口愈合 心头却更难耐凡俗的折磨 休养半月余久 带着情愫 我挥手与你作别回到寺阁 持斋诵经敲钟 每日依旧 脑中却常有你嫣然的酒窝 红尘里的你 青灯下的我 相识那一刻 就奠定好错过 你身在俗世 我心向禅佛 木鱼经声婆娑 轻诵着奈何 他日再晤面 小僧行礼说 一句女施主 添了愁忖几多 你浅笑细语 我佛珠慢拨 满卷情思都流作清水一钵 红尘里的你 青灯下的我 相识那一刻 就奠定好错过 你身在俗世 我心向禅佛 木鱼经声婆娑 轻诵着奈何 他日再晤面 小僧行礼说 一句女施主 添了愁忖几多 你浅笑细语 我佛珠慢拨 满卷情思都流作清水一钵 从此山水相隔 翻作过客

Can I steal your piece so I can earn a badge too? 😆

Dear all, (Composer's note: Below Message from Nov 2025) Spoiler alert: It is a Christmas song. I will still write a "classical" Christmas piece but I got this idea first. Please feel free to enjoy it anytime you want. Recently I saw a new DAW software with good AI voices (Disclaimer: just voice, not the writting part), so I wanna test it out and write a sample song for it. That turns out to be excellent (overall speaking), but sometimes the lyrics are not clearly pronounced. I might write more chroal piece with this great tool now. Feel free to tell me how it sounds! Overall structure of the song:- Orchestation: SATB + Violin "Quasi-Rondo" form: ABABCABA’ Strategy: Since it is meant to be a pop song, more direct development to "chorus" Some fun modulations involved HoYin

I really enjoyed this piece. You seem to have learnt your composition lessons well. I loved how dynamic the work was, and you seem to have used the instruments to the best potential. Just a couple of nits to pick - it really does feel like that, very minor: 1. Non vibrato is not the best way to ask for no vibrato to be used. Senza vibrato or senza vibr. is better - senza in Italian means "without." Non in Italian in this context would mean "not." Of course it's up to you, the instrumentalists will understand your intention either way, it's just one is better Italian than the other. 2. Slurs in a pizzicato passage are superfluous. I'd remove them if I were you. It's literally impossible to slur between two pizzicato notes. Keep going with your lessons! You're doing great.

It's amazing how perfectly these two Christmas carols blend together, and not only might you be confused about which song you're working on, but the listener is surely confused too, but in a very pleasant way. Someone might therefore maliciously say that Christmas carols are all the same, but this example proofs that it is really the case, in their universality of the gospel. Yes, there are some slightly dissonances which I like very much, so that the piece doesn’t become „to sweet“.

After listening your second Christmas carol mashup and following the score I must say you have „invented“ or „promoted“ a very interesting „new genre“ of counterpuntual composition (at least for me). The exciting thing about it is, that the listener usually doesn’t notice the elaboration needed to achieve the mashup. They hear melodies, harmonies, and phrases that are familiar to them, but at the same time something unexpected is happening. I called it „new genre“ since you do not combine single voices together, such as in a canon or a double fugue, but take phrases of two to four voices, which are already harmonized together, and put them against similar phrases from the other carol, thus creating a counterpoint not only of voices but of – to say choirs. That's amazing and very inspiring!

Another short, funny piece! You could imagine it being played endlessly on a loop at a children's carousel at a Christmas market. Thank you very much, have fun, and happy New Year.

This is a very peaceful and festive piece that easily gets one Christmas feeling. I like the well-balanced and calm orchestration with the spices of the bells, trombones and pizzicato strings. Condolences to your waterlogged computer, so it’s a pity that we have no score. Thank you for sharing, welcome to the forum and a Happy New Year 2026.

Hey, cool music, and welcome! Very Christmas-sounding indeed 🙂 The part at around :40 reminded me of the third mov. of Sibelus' 5th... you know that one? Check it out if you haven't, it's a masterpiece. Thanks for sharing, and give some thoughts on the other Christmas pieces in the event... you'll find more will check out your music if you listen to theirs too!

Yes, it’s a fun piece—too bad I can’t see the score.

Oh wow, this mashup is very different, but when the two melodies (which I didn’t know beforehand) came together, it was very moving.

This sounds very good. You can sense the individuality of the pieces, while at the same time special, emotionally charged atmospheres are created. I’m a big fan of these mixes. I think it’s a special art form where composition and imagination intertwine.

A nice swing to it. Love the occasional brass at the beginning, and nice looping!

i love how the dissonances compliment the rising motion of the polish chorale leading up to the "gloria," and how you variate the "in excelsis" in sequence going to a third and then to a PAC of "deo" the mashup between the two songs really works together and i loooove the ending: the high violins repeating the "gloria" section (actually, they just switch up place with the violas and cellos from bar. 10 onwards), the highest register of the piece being used only at the very end, the harmony stays still and doesn't show any harsh dissonance except the one on bar 18 cellos, going chromatically from B-flat, B, and C for the final cadence, and finally, the end chord, I over IV, is just a nice tie over the whole thing i let out a sigh great piece dude !!!

Nice piece! I think it is good length, ok structure, and nice melodies/dissonances.

This is quite a nice short piece! Too short... Maybe add the lick in there...

Cool mashup. The harmony and key changing help keep things alive and fresh. And it seems like the rhythms are different from the original if I'm not mistaken. The piece was composed so smoothly, I couldn't tell when you switched up the songs, and I had 5 minutes to try and figure this out lol. I did notice that as you were about to wrap up a section, you suddenly changed the key, tempo and dynamics. It got my attention each time you did this.

@PeterthePapercomPoser Below you will find my review for your chorale Taste: This piece seemingly uses two traditional Christmas chorales. We can hear how one lead into the other with no hiccups. The general audience might not notice the subtle transition, but those who perform it and the carols will. This will be great piece for concert. Instrumentation: The string accompaniment provides harmonic support for the vocal. We do not hear strings often. It is often an organ. But organs cliche. To answer if this playable? Playable is not correct word. Singable is. Yes a choir can and should. The score can easy to read and follow. No issues here. Others have mentioned: it reminds them of ET 3 or Mozart or Haydn. Those great choices, but homophonic texture with harmonic language reminds of Tchaikovsky; and maybe beethoven?

The texture gets so thick but I love how it sounds consonant throughout. For some reason I'm reminded of Home Alone when I hear this haha, I love that movie. Wonderful music Peter, it definitely is stocking stuffed full of holiday spirit. Merry Christmas!

Nice piece! Really appreciate your effort! It seems like the 3rd TS sometimes, but very Haydn, and perhaps some Mozart and Beethoven.

Pretty awesome how you were able to seamlessly merge the themes together. Fun dissonance sprinkled in every so often, which could very well be hints of a Bad Santa making his way through town. Or perhaps the Grinch is waiting nearby to cause mayhem. But overall the themes are pleasant and you changed them up to incorporate your own voice. The ending is very pleasant and have fun harmonies. But I do hear a tiny bit of sharp dissonance hidden in the passage. It sounds like something didn't quite go as planned, but it was too subtle for Santa to notice.