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Allllright.... Interesting. As far as I remember from College, and from my years as a trumpeter prior to that, "scherzo" is usually defined as a piece with a light, playful, yet vigorous style. My interpretation of that doesn't quite arrive at the conclusion that it should be difficult to perform, or rather, in this case, appearing near impossible, or, that the notes are randomly chosen. No intent to insult you at all, I'm simply explaining my perception of this piece, coming from an educated and experienced point of view. I'd urge you to continue writing, but to truly step back and analyze what you've written before you finalize it. Compare it to other works as well, in terms of it's overall form and structure, as well as the shapes of your phrases within the music. I'm sure you'll come to find that there are things that you did not realize before, and that could be altered to create a piece of music that you can truly be overjoyed at! Thanks for sharing 🙂

Ah no wonder! Your playing is the element I really enjoyed, your music was really brought to life. You're quite the player!

Hello my dear friend. Thank you so much that you like my music. The piano is VST from pianoteq8. Here I use petrof mistral. So I recorded myself with pianoteq8 plugin. So what you are hearing is me playing and use pianoteq8 sounds.

Man, this seems incredibly difficult! This piece seems like an experiment or something, but you have a lot of really cool ideas. It's a bit hodge podge to me, like a bunch of ideas thrown together that don't quite fit or don't transition well. However, like I said, your ideas in this are cool. This would be something if it were my piece that I would take ideas from and build new pieces out of! Regardless, was a fun listen, even if I didn't quite know how the piano parts would be played in certain spots 😄

We'd like to welcome a new member and Reviewer to the staff: @UncleRed99! Welcome! With his help as well as with input from the rest of the staff, @chopin, @Thatguy v2.0 and @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu we've come up with a little poll for the members to answer to help determine the form of our next fun competition/challenge. There are two questions in the poll: 1) What should the competition be about? To write background music for one of @chopin's Retry Bro's YouTube videos. Explanation: @chopin has a new YouTube channel! It's called Retry Bros. and consists of him playing Super Mario Maker levels and coming up with entertaining narration from Mario, Luigi, Princess Peach, Bowser, and other assorted characters. There's also a musical element. So far, Mike has come up with some clever lyrics and used AI to make realistic sounding songs that go along with the video. Now, where you would come in is that you'd be writing background music for one of @chopin's new videos! To write some kind of autobiographical piece with a paragraph describing how the music portrays the autobiographical material. This one is @UncleRed99's suggestion. The idea is to "write a piece that simply tells a story about your life, and something meaningful within it. Utilize complex elements to express emotion, tension, or any other desired emotional or mentally relatable expression. Provide a brief summary describing the root of the story being told." To write a Halloween-themed spooky, weird, or outlandish and strange piece. This one is self-explanatory and was proposed by @Thatguy v2.0. My own idea is for the members to write M&M&M's - Mock-ups, Mash-ups and Medleys. The idea is for the members to take 2 or more preexisting themes from different genres of music and to make mash-ups and Medleys with them. 2) What kind of ensemble should the competitors be free to choose to write for?

My proposals

Mr. Tristan... 😅😅 Piggy-backing off of what Henry said; I'd urge you to use the visualizer tool that Musescore.com has built into their interactive score window. Here's a screenshot of your piece in the visualizer. Idk about you, but that appears to be quite... inhuman to play. 😅😅😅 Almost like the notes written weren't chosen with any rhyme or reason. I look forward to seeing what you come up with in the future. Take your time, and really discover what it is that you want to "say" with your music!

Here another of my latest compositions. One of my favorite pieces… The title Echoes may be relevant, but I felt that even though the piece is short, it carries dynamics with alternating crescendos and decrescendos, recurring motifs, imitations, and with its intense character in C-sharp minor it can justify the title. In any case, regardless of the title, I have a special fondness for this piece, and it fully expresses my musical state of mind. I hope you enjoy it.

Hi @Kvothe, I am not expert in counterpoint, so take my comments with a grain of salt. Most of your exercise would be technically correct, as it is mostly thirds and sixths. I see you have an interval of a fourth in m.14. This interval, in classical counterpoint, would be considered a mistake (even though in other types of counterpoint it would be acceptable). So, strictly speaking, your counterpoint is not wrong. However, most times counterpoint is used as an exercise by setting up some rules and learning how to compose while sticking to them. These rules can be really varied, but some of the common classical rules are: 1. Using mostly third and sixths (up to three times in a row of the same interval at most) 2. Trying to make the melody move mostly by step, with occasional jumps (making the melody as melodic as possible). 3. Contrasting contour between melody and bass to some degree, where at times when one goes up, the other down, and vice versa. 4. Avoiding parallel fifths and octaves, having fifths only in contrary motion, etc. For example, in your exercises the melody is jumping around too often, which, in classical counterpoint, would be considered something to avoid. So, while your exercises are not wrong, I think you would benefit more by setting up some rules and following them, since using sixths and thirds without consideration of the melodic contour would be easy and, while technically correct, I am not sure it would help you as an exercise. Hope it helps and thank you for sharing your exercises!

WIP Update : Orchestrated the melody I have so far. I want this section to just be the oboe + strings. I'm still trying to come up with some material to put before the oboe comes in. I start on a Gm/C chord (technically Gm7/C with the oboe melody), so I just need a progression that will lead me there 😂. I'm thinking French horn melody with suspensions and soft movements (think Hymn for Band by Hugh Stuart). If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.

I made these 8 mock-ups on 8 themes from Final Fantasy VI intending to use them to familiarize myself with the themes in preparation for writing a big variations piece based on them. At first, I only intended to write variations on the "Returner's Theme" but it soon ballooned out of control as I noticed how many of the themes in the game are inter-related thematically and so I had to include more. I am posting the themes here with PDF scores for your perusal in the order in which they appear in the game. Also, here are the links to the original tracks on YouTube: Terra's Theme - Terra is the main protagonist in the game. A half magical being (esper) half human. The empire takes advantage of her. Fight Theme Kefka's Theme - Kefka is the evil antagonist who overthrows the emperor to gain ultimate power and lead the world into ruin. Mt. Kolts Returner's March - The Returner's are an organization that is trying to resist the evil empire and Kefka and Emperor Gestahl. Martial Law - plays in town when the empire occupies it. Magitec Factory - In the Imperial capitol of Vector, the empire has constructed a factory to create Magitec armor granting magic power to those wielding it. The Gestahl Empire Troops March On To go to the thread where I wrote my own original music based on these themes go here:

As the third installment in my enharmonic perpetual canon cycle, this one follows a procedure nearly identical to that of the first one and is quite similar in duration as well. The lyrics (once again, in Latin) sung by the choir translate as follows: "Change is inevitable in all things. Everything flows in the balance of those who are tempestive." As with the previous installment, the coda further drives the meaning to greater clarity and realization. YouTube video link:

Here is a scherzo. Enjoy. My third scherzo:https://musescore.com/user/96214813/scores/28066087

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Three Roads Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight I consider it a sort of Tolkien setting, because he liked this Child Ballad, and quoted this fragment of it in an essay.

Ah, I understand now! And don't take my words as judgement of your skill, at all. I hope that wasn't what was gathered. I didn't know this was written so long ago! Figured this was a newer score being shared as recent work looking for improvement. Thank you for the clarification.

Thank you so much again for your nice words. Im doing my best and making the music that express myself. Thanks again .

Hey everyone, Here are a few tracks from my new album aimed at TV and Film licensing. Once again focused on the action/adventure genre, but this one has a greater focus on modern cinematic music and fusions of genres from around the world. Everything from new age, to rock, to latin pop and inspired by films like National Treasure, Tomb Raider, 007, Pirates and more. Hope you all enjoy it. I'll update the thread as I upload a couple more tracks to the ol' YouTube, but in the meantime, if you want to check out the rest of it, you can listen on spotify https://open.spotify.com/album/5VacPSF2HmD200E2NKCZmx Thank you.

Don't know how I missed this Sounds great! Always love your work And keep us updated if you get hired for anything really cool 😄

Dude I can't even tell if this is a real piano or not. If it's vst, what is it? The music is really enjoyable, thanks for sharing!

Toccata Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Piano/Keyboard | Noteflight

This is my most popular piece on the internet. My brother almost wants to make love to me over it. I think it is a good piano piece. I wrote it in some bar or coffeeshop in 1996. Thoughts?🤣 Barcarolle Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Piano/Keyboard | Noteflight

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Very nice, and I love the "classic" look of your manuscript!

Nice piece my friend. I like your counterpoint. Well done

Well, I didn't write this directly into Noteflight, though I can do that now but only with a piano piece, but Three Roads was written on paper, May 8-12 1999, I actually dated the manuscript. This is a classical guitar part even though it is played on an electric; chord indications and tab are not standard in classical guitar published music. This is a chromatic and harmonically adventurous piece, it was just the poem, really, I wasn't always writing like that in 1999!

I like the overall texture of this piece. A few concerns. The Guitar part; Not many guitarists can read sheets like this. Tabs would be preferred, and if not tabs, all chords used across the score should be indicated (like this) for the guitarist to play along. Also, I noticed at M. 67, I have no idea what's goin on there with the ensemble, but it's definitely out of key between all the parts. lol Made me cringe a bit, if I'm honest. At M. 44, it appears that you're attempting a modulation there to another key, as from that point, accidentals are everywhere... While I didn't have much time to review the score to determine the chords / key being utilized, I'd highly suggest reviewing that area to make any corrections in accidentals that would be necessary based on the chords/key utilized. Fun piece, but much notation work could be accomplished to better polish what's written. Also, I'd highly suggest upgrading from Noteflight to at least MuseScore studio or something similar. Noteflight imo is a pain to use... Just trying to use it to determine the chords in those 4 measures for you was a pain in the rear... 😅

For those of us who use MS Studio, they've rolled out a Massive update as of yesterday evening. Here is their video explaining all changes made Quick overview: Input duration can be controlled with Midi keyboard alone count-in while playing active Added Euphonium ($14.99) and Handbells (+Handbell input symbol panel) (Free) sounds via muse sounds improved Linux VST3 support Added new methods for hiding staves Piano Guitar Vocal (PVG) Support More Engraving options More Font Support Workflow updates Accessibility Support Updates

Well, that is fake s*it. She had some aspirations towards composition, but just stole Chopin.

I was talking about Baroness Charlotte de Rothschild... Chopin's Fourth Ballade.

Look them up, the rich and naughty Rothschilds!

Just because this is a music site... Do you know who dedicated what to a Rothschild?

NEVER! NIE! GOTT VERDAMMNT! Never. I have enough money to live frugally for the rest of my life, no Cadillac, and as an occasional treat will buy Savory & James Medium Amontillado Sherry, 20% Alcohol, and... I had Mouton Rothschild once. It was 1971, considered a bad vintage, and cost me $120 for the bottle in 2002 or so. It was so good I didn't care about the buzz and just sipped it slowly, but still not worth $120.

Ok. That is great! Also, if you drink cheap beer slowly, do you drink expensive wine quickly?

Just the truth! So what; some people survive gunshot wounds. I'm chill, drinking cheep beer rather slowly! I'm cool, and maybe should pack another bowl of this very nice high THC pot!

'Danse Macabre and other pieces using augmented sevens and tritones'

Another older comment I found on noteflight.

In my opinion, Meiner Meinung, this is a very simple piece. Clear E Minor tonality, just some augmented triads; chords one should USUALLY use only sparingly, like diminished sevenths.

Okay, chill.

What; do you have a whole tone or augmented triad fetish, sir?😆

Oh yeah...I almost died from a childhood vaccination, allergic to Pertussis Vaccine, and well, I'm alive, well, and drinking beer and shootin' the s*it about music at 56, but it led to some coordination problems. They let me major in composition anyway. My best instrument is Rock electric bass.

I'm sure I have and would remember immediately! Chopin...You know, my own piano skills are about good enough to play the e minor prelude badly?🤣

So many people hear Prokofiev in my stuff from this time in my life! You are not the first; someone on Noteflight got "major Prokofiev vibes" from Toccata! He was for a long time a composer I respected but didn't listen to much, but something must have stuck!

I like that comment! Also did you listen to Chopin op 60 before? It is also a Barcarolle.

Those wierd parts are also kind of Prokofiev...

A rare example of program music for me. If I can find that Noteflight comment... Forgot to tell you; Barcarolle is a rare example of program music, music that tells a specific story, in my compositional output. It is like the rustic dance interrupted by a storm thing in Beethoven's Sixth Symphony in F, though in my Barcarolle, the story is that some folks with no Nautical Knowledge chartered a boat, like in Gilligan's Island, and went merrily out to sea, or out of port at least. A storm brews, and these dorks are in fear of their lives, but the storm passes, and they go back to shore and get drunk and dance, but of course they are drunk, so the dance is a bit staggered!

Great Barcarolle too. I prefer this toccata though

Nice! Some parts are wierd, but mostly very good.

Yeah man, these are all good suggestions. @PeterthePapercomPoser and I brainstormed a ton in the last few years, we came up with a lot of what you suggested. Many others before we were involved held them too. It kinda just depends on if enough want to do it. We tried money incentives, but looking Bach, the attraction it gave was nice for participant numbers but not so much for the "fun" part of it. I've found that if it's lighthearted, it's better for a community type of contest, but there needs to be a community. Maybe we could run them on our discord, are you on that? I roam both, but I know some use one over the other.