Michael_Rybak

Thank you Gijs. I was thinking of a middle part and a reprise myself, because actually there's another melody in the original song which is not used yet (so I'd probably use it for the middle part). Thanks for the advice.

This is my new 3-voice polyphonic prelude based on the lovely "Here, There and Everywhere" song by Beatles. To recall the original Beatles melody you may check the song here. Hope you like my version :) Click to listen (mp3) P.S. I'm working on sheet music currently (and not only for this piece) and will be posting it as soon as it's ready.

there's no main theme/development here, there are events that follow each other, with rises and falls of activity throughout the song. no theme that is repeated consequently by the voices (and I had no aim to have one)

Glad to hear you like it! I'm working on a score right now and will be posting it in the next couple of days. As for the first prelude, it is called "White Keys Prelude" and opens my set called "24 Polyphonic Preludes" which I'm working on right now, compiling it from my old and new pieces. I've posted it here at YC already: http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/white-keys-prelude-19987.html

This is a motif-composition I once wrote for a contest here at youngcomposers (back in 2004, when it had old design and other owner). The motif had 4 notes: A-C-D#-G# Probably the main trick was actually choosing the right key :) cis-moll worked really well. Now I was finally able to play it. Hope you enjoy. mr50.mid

Thank you for the kind words, and I'm glad you've enjoyed it. There's a score for the first half of the song (see attached), which I wrote 2 years ago or so, when I saw the movie. As for the second half - I added it recently when I decided to learn the piece on guitar. I've composed it at the instrument, so there's no score yet. I'll sure type it down in the next few days and post it here. Oh, and the score I'm attaching is written using two clefs (like if it's for piano). I'll fix that as well. mr244_guitar_version_first_half.pdf

Hello everyone. I am not a guitarist; it took me 3 weeks to learn this relatively easy piece and my performance still lacks confidence, sorry for that. This is a piece I've composed after watching a mystical movie about a family who could live eternally because they've found a magic well, drinking from which made them immortal. There was a storyline about their son who met a girl and wanted to tell her this secret so she could use it too, but his family was against that. Please let me know what the title of the movie was if you've seen it :) The melody at 0:21-0:37 was the movie's leitmotif, but it had no second voice and no development, so I felt the need to enrich it and extend it to a complete piece.

Hello everyone. This old work of mine took me about 2 months of polishing and still my performance could be (and will be) better, but I'm finally satisfied of what I've achieved already. Hope you enjoy it. mp3 pdf

Here's a short piece (Trio) from Haydn's second divertimento that I've enjoyed a lot: Sheet music I though it was asking for the third voice and added one :) Sheet music Hope you enjoy it :) Please let me know if this is the wrong place to post adaptations to.

the melody is charming indeed.

please post midi/mp3+pdf.

yes, please. i'd love to learn it.

also, can you explain why you made pdf that cannot be printed out? i'd like to learn the piece, why not?

btw, i think the way you played that complex bar at 1:25 turned out sounding really fresh and appropriate, imo.

the music is wonderful, please do practice more :) i'm sure you'll come up with a perfect performance in less than a year. this one is enjoyable at some places, but too erm kinky overall. you surely know what exactly you should work on. good luck with both playing and composing!

the dynamics i used are: mf at bar 1, mp at 17, mf 19, mp at 21, f at 32, cresc at 40, mf at 42, mp at 50, mf at 58, f at 66, cresc at 73, p and dim at 75, mp at 79. duplicate notes and hands overlapping: bar 2: left hand, 1st and 4th chords: upper note (f) is played by right hand already bar 10: same as 2 (duplicate notes) bar 16: hands overlapping than can be played fine (you can rearrange the notes to avoid it, but it's fine as it is) bar 34: same as 2 (duplicate notes) bar 43: same as 2 (duplicate notes) bar 46: same as 16 (playable hands overlapping) bar 47: same as 2 (duplicate notes) bar 48: a complex bar here. hands are overlapped extremely and notes are duplicated. the way i play it is: right hand is above left hand, and lower Ab in second chord of right hand is left out (as it is played already by left hand). see 0:55-0:58 in the video for this place :) the score here is not very natural at first glance, but there's a lot of pleasure playing it exactly this way when you get it played smoothly, so i'd recommend keeping it that way (except for removing the duplicated Ab in right hand) bar 51: same as 2 (duplicate notes) bar 54: same as 16 (playable hands overlapping) bar 55: same as 2 (duplicate notes) bar 56: same as 48 (exactly the same way to play it) bar 57: same as 16 (playable hands overlapping) bar 62: same as 16 (playable hands overlapping) bar 63: hardly playable hands overlapping (i did play it, but you sould probably revise it) bar 75: same as 2 (duplicate notes) bar 81: same as 16 (playable hands overlapping) not sure whether key signature should be changed at bar 17, as it is a temporary key change, not a modulation. you may also want to add instructions on using pedal around the song. also please note that i'm not a professional, so my toughts/advice might be wrong at some point. good luck with revising the score. should you have any questions, please feel free to ask.

sure. i've removed the link to sheet music and will now answer your question:)

i'm so glad to have made you happy about it :) glad you like it and i second your words to charlotte.

hi there, i've recorded the as promised :) hopefully you don't mind me changing the dynamics at several places.

i loved this one. thanks a lot for posting, will be glad to here more from you, more grotesques in particular.

amazing, it is co calm and light, i can feel it shine. thanks a lot for posting.

sounds interesting, but it really asks for the second piece to be followed by. are you planning to compose one?

i like the streaming mood of the first variation lot. most of the rest are also very creative and interesting. i should give it a closer listen in a while.

that's ok; in fact, you can find such examples in music of great composers; i recall this happen in, for example, Bach's second 2-part invention (i've just checked: see second measure on second page of pdf attached). i'll let you know once i have enough time to make a recording - i'll be glad to. J.S. Bach 2 part Invention No 2 c moll.pdf

it's such a pleasure to play it, i like it a lot; thanks for posting! i like the slight jazzy feel it has at some points, keeping the smooth lyrical mood at others.