Myrtle Esmeralde

You might wanna check some of J. Sibelius's more dark-atmosphered works, such as the second part of the Lemminkäinen suite ( ) and some parts of En Saga. Some of Debussey's works are pretty chilling as well, although I do not have any specific one in my mind right now. If you don't mind having a piece with a singr and lyrics, I'd warmly recommend Leevi Madetoja's "Syksy", which pretty much chilled me to the bone... :wacko:

Wow, nice!! I really like this poem!

It's very beautiful!! I like some parts and themes better than others, but as a whole - it's really great! You indeed managed to capture the mood of winter very well.

I agree with descara and thepianoman, but I don't think I count - I don't like most of the modern music I hear... I didn't like the broken chords, they sounded a bit predicted.

I personally though that the chord that was repeated again and again between the melody and the bass line, with almost no changes throughout most of the piece, made it a bit monotonous. I think that if you would've added other notes, to add a bit more color the piece would've still been simple, but a lot more beautiful. I'm not saying you should've changed the chord itself, of course, just to add to it a bit nore coloring after a while. The idea of the entire piece is very good, and I really liked the piece as a whole and the combination between the augmented chord and the melody and bass lines! :thumbsup: I'm not very learned in the whole "12 tone scale" stuff or all those whatever-they-might-be-modern-technique-"thingy"ies yet, but I say it leaves an effect on the listener, definately. (It's just that same repeated chord that annoyed me a bit...) This is just my opinion, and not a piece of advice, since as you can see I have a lot to learn and I need advice myself.... :D

well, the picture I had in mind when I heard your piece was a hobbit getting out of his cabin (forgot how it's called in english) and passing the part of the shire he knows, with a big excited smile on his face... Just replace the trumpet with a soprano recorder, and this picture is complete...:) No, just kidding. the trumpet is very nice! This piece is really good!!! I love it!

Wonderful! Just lovely!!! Very Beautiful and atmospheric!

I'm really happy that this piece sounds Celtic... Of course I intended it to be, but since I haven't really "grew" on celtic music I had the impression that the piece wouldn't sound celtic to anyone but me... :whistling: Thank you for the compliment! :D

Who says a lack of a distinct form is a bad thing? It's not. It's just a different way of composing. I usually have no defined structure in my pieces, and it doesn't mean they're bad because of it. Indeed, they could be bad (:whistling:... I can't really know) but I don't think the problem would be the lack of form. :P My problem is that it's too short for the kind of piece you were composing. Some musical ideas couldn't be developed for a longer time, but yours definately could, so good luck! :thumbsup: And yes, monotonous is not the word to describe it. Overall, I liked it. :)

I searched for a young-composers-forum in google a month ago and - There I was! :w00t:

It happened to me yesterday...

Hurray! :D

First of all, thank you. :) I tried to write this for bagpipes in Sibelius, but for some reason sibelius plays clarinets instead of bagpipes (WTH...?:eyebrow:), so I decided to use recorders, which give a very similar celtic-folk effect (and which I know very well, I play them...)

I don't care, synopsys or not. The contest/assignment is to create the music for a specific scene. Sure, a background story is very helpful, and you can get the most of it from the youtube videos. Anyway, Any scene has it's own mood and when we now the basic story - we can compose accordingly.

I'd tried to, but untill two days ago I just didn't know how... I know now, and in the next pieces I'll try to make an improvement. Thank you for the tips!