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Hello! I've never heard that Brahms piece, I'll have to take a listen at some point You're probably right about those leaps being a bit difficult, but they should be doable with practice. I can do them and I'm far from a good singer 😅 A C# would work in m. 46 but I like the way it sounds to move from natural to sharp in the next measure. Thank you for the feedback!

Hi Henry, glad you enjoyed! I'm fairly sure about the high Bb, i'm picturing it being sung in a thin voice so that may offset some of the drama

Installment 3 of posting my old pieces, please enjoy this lied from 2018

I think everything's already been here regarding their suitability for children, but these still make up a nice little trio of pieces and i think they definitely represent a unique voice for yourself! Do you see them as a suite of sorts or are they separate as far as you're concerned?

Nice work as always, this motif especially gets me

Most pleasant! Is there a score we could see too?

Henry, you ought to be immensely proud of yourself! I only joined recently and so i haven't been here for the whole journey of this piece, but I'm glad i can be here for its culmination! You clearly put a huge amount of effort and of yourself into this piece and it really comes through. You have such a unique style and i can only feel inspired and in awe at you and this great achievement. I had heard of Tao before, but reading your outline and listening to this piece in full really opened up some new corners of my brain. Do you plan on trying to get this performed publicly, or at least recorded?

Updated score now with phrase markings in the voices denoting when to breathe. Though in m. 9-13 i left them out, because the singer could either breathe between 13 and 14 or after "way" in 11

@PeterthePapercomPoser Thank you for another review! Many of the annotated issues may be trivial but they're things that bug me whenever i've looked back at this piece The notes you gave on the annotations and the couple of other things really help me Yes, excuse me, I meant adding thirds and fourths or fifths and sixths, just to make the piano's solo bit sound richer Sure, if you would! Thank you again for the kind words and feedback. I think i'll post a revised pdf here in the replies with phrase markings in the voice as you suggested

This is a setting of Robert Frost's beautiful poem that I wrote around Easter 2018. Included is an annotated copy with things i'm unsure about. Any feedback is appreciated

Very tender piece and performance, well done. My only suggestion would be to add a little more variety. A ton of variety isn't necessary in a short piece like this, where the whole thing feels like a single thought. But i would have liked to hear a little change from the pattern of simply one melody note every half measure. And I would've liked to hear those sixteenth notes last more than one measure. I felt like they had more to say.

Thanks!

@PeterthePapercomPoser, thank you for your review! The annotations you clarified are appreciated. And I completely agree about the phrases, you put into words what i couldn't.

I've been grappling with whether i should post some old pieces of mine. On one hand, i really like a lot of the material in them, on the other, they're... well, old crxppy pieces XD. I looked them over to see if reworking them would be worthwhile - most of them I'd have to change so drastically that, especially since i've become so attached to them in their current state, i couldn't bring myself to do it. Others could be reworked, but when I tried doing so, I realized i didn't quite have the skillset. So, although i feel a bit icky about posting pieces that are littered with flaws that i'm already aware of, i think i'll be posting them one by one on here and hopefully perspectives of others will help. I also realized i could include an annotated copy of the score for each piece, with everything i can tell is wrong with it but don't know how to fix. Please enjoy the first piece, an overture i wrote in keyboard reduction style all the way back in 2018.

I like it! The only bit that sounds a little funny to my ear is measure 10. No idea what i would do instead though