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Hello, this is my first time writing for choir. I am being commissioned by a local middle school to arrange Umbrella. I have just the bridge and a final chorus to add, but I wanted feedback. My background is percussion so I don't want to accidentally make anything to jumpy or impossible. Please be specific in critiques, I'd appreciate it! Thank you!

Hey @Aiwendil ! Nice job on this elegant classical work! I would have called this piece "Divertimento in Bb for Wind Octet". But no matter - very enjoyable nonetheless! I love the unexpected discordant moments in the 1st movement! The 2nd movement almost lulls me into boredom, but soon enough a contrasting section brings renewed musical interest. The 3rd movement to me sounds like a peaceful countryside carriage ride. I'm surprised that you included two minuets in this Divertimento. I would have opted to write one minuet and a scherzo for variety's sake. But it certainly is vivacious and full of positive energy! The Presto movement is probably my favorite of the bunch! It's very scherzo-like with its constant sudden dynamic surprises. Another thing I wanted to mention is that the whole work is very well proportioned! Each movement is about 5 minutes long with no movement being more important than the others. Great job and thanks for sharing! I enjoyed it thoroughly! P.S.: I really loved the funny modulations in the last movement! They're full of Mozartean humor - almost like those polytonal moments in his Musical Joke! Thanks again!

Hey @jejrekmek ! You have such a unique style! Either that or I'm just not too familiar with your influences. Your recordings are amazing. The only thing I wish you included is lyrics to follow along with as I find it hard to understand the words in the recording. It's amazing that you got this performed and recorded so well! It seems so eclectic and eccentric. I'm not even sure how many performers are in this recording and what the instruments are. But I enjoyed it thoroughly! If only I knew the words I could enjoy it all the more deeply! Thanks for sharing!

Hey @skvlkin ! Nice arrangement! Since the usual range of Soprano singers starts at middle C and given that you're arranging this for a middle school choir, it might be advisable to transpose the whole thing up to C minor instead of Bb minor. That way all your low Bb's would be easily reachable by the Soprano soloist. And there doesn't seem to be any really high notes in the piece that would prevent your from transposing it up because of the high range. Also, C minor is a much easier key signature for the middle schoolers to read. That's my only advice and it's coming from someone who doesn't really know too much about voices himself. Thanks for sharing!

From program notes~ Event Horizon brings many ideas up, but the idea of inevitability is one of them something that you can't control and something that is bound to happen something that just leaves you laying around vulnerable to the vast cosmos This piece of music also types in with some personal experienceas well with falling in love with a four part structure bliss , self denial, in love and the singularity. "once you enter,there's no going back" * extended technique, there is a lot of overpressuring bow control. This is to create subharmonics, which will sound an octave approximately below the fingered note*

Hi @Fruit hunter ! Quite an interesting work full of extended techniques and giving each section of the chamber orchestra interesting parts - including the Violas! My only gripe as a composer and listener of your work is that in this case it seems like there is no justification or musical reason for any of your gestures. The piece seems to be made up primarily of interesting ostinati and various syncopated gestures. This somehow manages to create some musical interest. But, for my own taste, I prefer the musical justification for a piece's existence to come from the themes/melodies which from my perspective, this piece doesn't have. Still, it does work - and I could definitely imagine it as programmatic music for the approach of a black hole. I don't see the "falling in love" theme as very fitting to this piece though. But an approach to a black hole definitely could work. Thanks for sharing!

Things added: bass distortion turned down- key change and second chorus- effects to various instruments- bossfight progress 3.mp3

"Night Train Home" I wanted to write a jazz instrumental but never studied jazz technique before. So I dug into jazz theory three weeks ago and began writing my first jazz quintet! I wrote all the chords and notes and performed the virtual instruments on keyboard. Except drums which started with midi loops that I heavily edited. No AI. Comments welcome!

Hello people! I was searching for some of my old music and found some dances I composed a long time ago in the sequencer (before I started writing on paper). I took the old midi of this minuet and imported it into MuseScore and tweaked it a little to make it look nicer. I am sure that this does not follow the traditional form meant for a minuet (binary) - I don't think I was trying to write in any particular form when I wrote this nor follow any particular rules in voice leading and counterpoint (so I am sure I break some rules such as the one about having melodic tritones). Let me know what you think! I wasn't planning on publishing this as I am currently working on something else but it took only a little of my time and I've never showed it to anyone before. Your comments and suggestions would be much appreciated!