Romanticist

this is amaaaaaaaaaazing.

this is cute.... why cant you just keep the 4/4 at the end..and make the 3rd note a whole note, and the f# in the treble a whole note

lol

score?

Agh. This piece is brilliant, your ideas are fresh and certainly a pleasant break from a lot of the stuff on here, I loved your development and elaboration of the ideas you stated, and that last note in the bassoon was a lovely touch. I don't think I have anything negative to say, I loved the writing you did for piano, it seems as if you wrote this for Piano and Sax as opposed to Sax accompanied by piano. Once again, brilliant, LOVED listening.

This piece really isn't that great at all, and I kinda suspected as much by your reference to it as a "song". I have no idea what you're doing with form..it seems like there's virtually no development of material, the piece isn't even in D minor to begin with, and the boredom and lack of interest which accompanied my listen almost made me turn it off. It's bland, repetitive, and annoying, especially towards those constantly banging unisons and perfect fifths in the bass that seems to plague this work. God this is horrendous, you really can do better...and your writing for the piano itself can improve as well.

Bohuslav Martinu..for the 6 amazing symphonies and the concerto for Timpani Piano and 2 orchestras.

Rued Langgaard without a doubt, he was dwarfed by his Danish contemporary Carl Nielsen. His opera Antikrist is by far my most favorite work in the genre, and his "Music of the Spheres" has surpassed even some Mahler that I listen to. He was apparently the first composer to ask a pianist while performance of one of his works to physically play the piano via directly touching the strings rather than the keyboard, and Gyorgy Ligeti, when first introduced to his music stated that he apparently was a follower of Langgaard. Some champions of his music have stated that some of his string quartets had minimalstic tendencies in them.. which I can't really help to to take with a grain of salt, seeing as I haven't heard them and people will say almost anything to popularize something. Still though, Rued Langaard, check him out.

Cornelius Dopper, Stephen Hartke.

Persepolis by Xenakis.. really awesome piece of electronic music imo. I am also digging the soundtrack from I, Robot composed by Mark Beltrami.. aaaaand 2 Sketches based on Indian Themes by Charles Griffes. All lovely pieces of music.

Well first.. I think your link to the scores for movement 2 and 3 were mixed up :). But anyway.. let me be the first to say that I absolutely ADORE this piece, Movement I was fantastic, that melody you had there seemed so playful I could almost imagine it being played as backround music to Tom and Jerry or something. Your use of syncopation throughout the piece only intensified my interest, the little off-beat 16ths gave this movement an almost march like feel to it at times. Your harmonies were interesting as well.. the dissonance that you have going on throughout (in this context) made the the music seem very comical.. I'm not sure if that's the effect you were going for, but that's what I took from it. Movement II was such an incredible contrast from the first, I really wasn't expecting it at all actually (which by now I'm sure wasn't by chance :P), but it was beautiful. The only part that seemed faintly reminiscient of the previous movement was measures 17-19 where you have those little staccato 8ths being played. Movement III was an excellent movement to wrap this piece up, I was half expecting you two quote previous themes from the preceding movements not sure why though, lol. This movement like the first seemed very playful. Overall, like I said earlier, this piece is great. I love how short this was, playful, and to the point. Oh, and really the only thing I have to recommend is that you maybe use more polyrhythms in your works.. I think they would add more to your already interesting rhythmic tendencies :P

Yeah, it's silly.

Anyway, I second this, sounds like a good idea. If I only had a dollar for every thread I posted in, forgot about, and came back much later to see that whatever I said had several responses ... I'd have like 5 dollars.

Wow KSP.. long time no see :P. I'll comment on your piece later.. it sounds pretty cool. haha

1. Mahler Symphony 8 2. Bruckner Symphony 9 3. Sibelius Symphony 7 4. Prometheus Symphony (Scriabin) 5. Turangilila Symphony (Messiaen)