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The 12/16 at the end? NEAR the end, I mean, m. 35

Found this in a box, partially chewed by mice! 1989, age 20. I wrote a lot of very short choral pieces as a youngster, trying to get something published...if I find any more worth entering, I'll do so in this thread. Aaronic Benediction Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight

38 years or so, this was 1997!

You call the first theme folk melody...that's a compliment; I thought of it as a fugue subject in disguise! There are romantic-era nods as well. In the first movement, the slow intro sounds a bit like Tchaikovsky, and the final cadence is a direct rip-off (well, tribute to?) of the final cadence to C.M.V. Weber's Der Freischütz first act! Different key. It has always been my favorite opera!😉 It is not postmodern, but could that be true in a way? Basically a Nineteenth Century symphony, but has Baroque elements, even some Classical ones. We LIVING composers have the luxury, especially today with everything on the Internet, to be eclectic.

I saw the viola in the bass clef thing; just a Noteflight glitch, it likes to change things! It was on a measure rest so didn't make a difference in the sound, but of course I corrected it!

Very enjoyable finale! I like how you let up tension, but tension is still there; you don't let up. Does that make sense? Probably not, but this would have rocked Vienna in the 1790s.

Quite excellent! More like Haydn to me. I am good at using elements of the Classical, Baroque, or even sometimes Renaissance styles, but am not good at staying in style!

Yes, probably weak as opposed to your suggestion, and I changed it. Last movement of my D Minor String Quartet.

I knew that didn't look right...really, after 38 years, writing an impossible violin chord! I can forgive myself for an unplayable guitar chord once in a while...

Thank you!

I don't know, what about my inversion? If I had a violin, I'd try it out, very badly...🤪

Is This Violin Chord Possible? Free Sheet Music by Outis for Violin | Noteflight Just askin'. I have been writing music for 38 years, but I am not a string player. If possible, could not be sustained...

Here's number three, because I like it! I'll get number two in eventually! Three Part Songs to Poems by G.M. Hopkins-3 Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Various Instruments | Noteflight

No, think German. National Anthem material! Aw, s*it, I gave it away!🤣

By the way, can anyone guess what famous tune the main theme of the minuet is based on?😉