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@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, your composing story is lovely - I feel your deep care for your compositions, I can say that taking such a long time to compose certainly paid off :) Well, as of yet, I've never taken time to compose over one week and a half per work. The reason is that if I take a lot of time, I can't complete them, or rather, I move on to another project. Taking a lot of time for composing brings about failure. It turns out recently that my composing style is like "on the spot of imagination", I mean composing if I have a clear vision. This style enables me to create pieces without losing my passion and complete them. Oh, if you consider mixing as compositional time, it would be more than that time because I usually revise mixing after I make a track. Good and curious topic, Grant, thank you. Best, Lithl.

Hi, thanks for listening and commenting. Well, I’ve actually finished the project now. For one thing, I currently prefer to compose short pieces that express exactly what I want and nothing more; I’m not interested in writing extended works or anything like that. It’s just a personal preference right now. The Cantai app has evolved a lot during this time. They introduced what you mentioned: choral masses. And also other languages (Latin, English, and Spanish for Dorico). Although I had to uninstall the update and reinstall the previous version because the new version wouldn’t let me mix English and Latin. Once I finished this project, I installed the latest versions. In the end, there were about seven pieces: prelude, introit, Kyrie/Tuba Mirum, Lacrimosa, Sacrifice, Sanctus, and Libera Me. The texts are taken from classical Latin and all those Romantic poets, Joni Mitchell, and a poem by a dear friend.

Thank you Lithl! They are all good :)

This and the following movements all toke a good 2 2/1 years to write

This is so good. I'm sure that you have a wonderful musical nature - the reason I think so is clear: this piece has so many musical factors and combines them with a progressive rock style avant-garde element very well. Probably the reason you didn't get feedback is that this piece covers a controversial topic, I guess. Also, a nice picture. I prefer the second one from the top: for the others, I know what you are trying to do, but the surrounding elements do not highlight the rabbit in the center. If you upload the second image to YouTube, it would likely draw people in. By the way, I want to ask you, how did you make the drums? Is that a VST, or did you play them yourself? Well, overall, this sounds amazing. Again, I admire your musical creativity. Some parts of this piece have a beautiful tune yet with chaotic noises. At any rate, we can enjoy plenty of wonderful melodies and developments. Keep up the great work!! Best, Lithl.

Now, it's a time to help someone who wants to discover music - since I was helped by YC members a lot :) I have some examples that would be up your alley. Ludovico Einaudi: Moments of Peace Nils Frahm: Felt Ólafur Arnalds: Trance Frendz Hope this post helps you, have a wonderful musical journey and welcome to YC! Best, Lithl.

This is a very interesting idea for a project and something I think many choirs would be interested in performing! Was there a reason you particularly wanted to restrict yourself to "calm, short pieces?" I'm curious what other texts you are thinking of incorporating; these first two are certainly a good start! It's a shame that Cantai doesn't give the vocals a more monumental sound, but it's still helpful for a sense of how everything goes together. I particularly like the little harp arpeggios for their sense of wonder. I'm not sure you need to specify the number of choral singers on the first page of the score. Instruments are good at being loud, so choirs that work with orchestra are good at maintaining membership big enough to balance orchestral forces. And the choral singers generally aren't paid, only instrumentalists and vocal soloists, even with major orchestras. So usually the paid orchestral parts are the only ones given a number of players needed. Nice!

The allegro below was an earlier movement for a wind quartet (back in 2019) that now contains lots of revisions. At the time, I thought it was 'perfect' but almost 10 years later, evidently it was not! 😬 Second movement recycled from another standalone piece I had made for wind quintet originally. The Rondo is a work in progress. Currently working on the C section (minor). I quite like the theme... think it is catchy. String Quartet in C (Allegro).mp3 String Quartet in C (Second Movement).mp3 String Quartet in C (Rondo Idea).mp3 String Quartet in C (Allegro).pdf String Quartet in C (Second Movement).pdf String Quartet in C (Rondo Idea).pdf

Hello all! This is a piece I wrote for college. The first movement was performed, and I was supposed to have the rest performed before the end of the month, but unfortunately, the ensemble that would have played it got too busy. The piece is kind of in a similar vein as my first large scale work, the Seven Sorrow; a program piece based on a traditional Catholic devotion. The difference is, while no other composer had written a piece on the seven sorrows, there are composers who have written pieces about the stations of the cross (Liszt's "Via Crucis" comes to mind), though I approached it quite differently, I think. Rather than a movement for each station, I made it a 3-movement brass quintet where each movement represents several stations. The first 5 stations in movement 1, the next 4 in movement 2, and the final 5 in the finale. The stations are shown both in the score and in the video with pictures. The Stations of the Cross for Brass Quintet - YouTube Stations of the Cross.mp3 Stations_of_the_Cross_Full.pdf