Nacnud

:lol: I've recently discovered how amazing tchaikovk'ys symphonies really are, his 5th is like OMG SO EPIC and his 6th is almost as if tchaik put every drop of his soul and all his emotion into it. :( the ending is really sad. But its still amazing. Oh and Dvorak is also really good, hes definitely an underappreciated musical genius, in music class everyone knows of mozart and beethoven and bach, but everyone was like "huh, who is dvorak" (they pronounced him wrong as well :P).

Hello guys. http://www.box.net/shared/9g1vuufuko This is the 1st mvt of a symphony i'm working on (composed on sibelius), it is slightly short, so I may add a bit more onto it. Hope you enjoy, and please let me know what you guys think! cheers, Nacnud edit: sorry, I am trying to get the score up as well.

i have an imac, 250 gig harddrive, and it has wonderful processing speed. As its mac, I'm stuck with what i have, for better or worse. Is it expensive?

this is great! love it! the thickening of textures as the walls of each house get bigger is very neat, and it illustrates the wolf really well.

sorry, i do not know a lot about music TECHNOLOGY, i'm not studying it. its just I hear these wonderful compositions by other people.... and the instruments just sound so realistic. what does VSL and EW stand for?

Is there any other composing programs that have better sound quality/control than sibelius? because, to be quite honest, sibelius sounds like crap. thanks.

:( 404 shame i was relly looking forward to listening to this after all the good comments/reviews.

arghhh I still havent figured out how to create an mp3 file from it.

Hello, I was really angry, so i composed this piece to sort of reflect the anger i felt. Hopefully, it will give the impression that it is not a cheerful piece, rather like a massive storm instead. I've only finished the introduction and I'm working on the next section, any feedback, good/bad/ugly is welcome :) If anyone can help me think of a good name for the piece, please suggest one. It's not actually an overture really, I just called it that and I cba with changing it right now haha. EDIT: right i thought of a really generic one. "the storm" :P Thanks! Overture.sib

The mass effect music is really excellent. Also, the music to the original metal gear solid is really good, its a good blend of action and mystery and creepiness.

uhh, well, there's this guy called Mozart, you probably haven't heard of him, also a phenomenal composer that is dreadfully under-appreciated and very unknown amongst most of the population.

I like the 7th the most! the opening and ending to the 1st movement is awesomely captivating, the 2nd movement is just beautiful to listen to, the 3rd movement sounds like great fun to play, and the 4th movement is just an amazingly triumphant ending to a fantastic piece. Also, the 2nd symphony is also kind of unpopular lol, the theme in the 1st movement in the basses is just wonderful. The 1st symphony is also a fav, as its a ton of fun to play. The 9th, ofcourse is a fav, its just magnificent in every way possible. However, I don't really get the hype about the 5th symphony, sure, the triplet progression is very iconic and it captures the mood of beethoven really well, but I just never really clicked with it all that well. Plus, its got to be the most overplayed classical piece EVER. All in all though, I think my favourite symphony is a close tie between the 7th and the 9th.

Hmm, well please don't offended, but I was actually quite bored by it. The middle section as some have said was probably the best, but even then its still not very good. I dunno, this could sound better as a live performance, but most of the time its almost as if the piece didn't know if it was trying to be cheerful, or a bit solemn. And the dissonance, don't tell me there wasn't dissonance in there boy, there was, and it was way too much. Sometimes, it can create some interesting and nice effects and clashes, but you have used it too much and in the wrong places. But, in light of what I said, its still performance worthy i reckon, but the band would have to be really really good, you need to consider the piece from the player's point of view, not just yourself.

Well, its definitely not something you can rush through unless you are very very good or your piece is just fairly simple (I composed this march in one evening). I'm pretty bad lol, so this march is fairly simplistic. I only used a traditional orchestra, rather than a romantic/modern one, which is absolutely massive, and would have taken me at least twice as long. You do need to kind of plan ahead. Think of a really imaginative and unique theme for your composition, and you can recycle it a few times like ABA form or a recapitulation, or with a few variations in it. Probably the most difficult part for me at least is the middle section, making sure it doesnt drag on and bore the audience is a bit of a problem for me haha. Also, getting dynamics and crescendos right is something not to be missed out, a piece is very boring without dynamics, so make sure there are plenty of contrasts in dynamics, the crescendos and diminuendos on sibelius are crap and hardly make any difference, so you'll have to manually assign each note in cresc. phrase to a individual dynamic, eg. pp, p, mp, mf, ff etc. This takes longer than it looks, because of all the scrolling through menus. Also, do take some inspiration from other composers, be it beethoven, mozart, bizet, shostakovich, stravinsky or whoever you like the most (just be careful not to outright plagiarize their work!). They all took inspiration from each other and some were under the tutelage of each other.

^or march in F major.

As the title says, and also any critical feedback would be helpful, thanks. Its in F major. I'm sorry about the lack of an MP3 file for those who dont have sibelius, I'm figuring it out now, and many thanks to James. H for showing me how to upload the file! I'm a bit of a techno idiot haha. I did take a little bit of inspiration right at the end, I hope you are all ok with that (i'm not trying to plagiarize!) EDIT: in fact, if anyone could tell me how to upload my composition as an MP3 I would be very grateful. EDIT2: for somereason, sibelius keeps resetting the tempo to 100 crotchet beats a minute, please slide it all the way up to 175 crotchet beats per minute (on the play/pause toolbar). nameless composition.sib

Yeah, sorry... my remarks were a bit shallow. I can assure you my posts are hardly ever like that. :D

I find that the best way to name a your piece is to think of what context it's in - if it's happy, think of happy words, such as "flowers", or "victory" or "celebration" (Yeah I know, they're cliched, I'm sure you could come up with better stuff). If the piece is sad, sombre, and a bit depressing, come up with the words that describe it, for example "death", "illness", or "tragedy". (again, come up with something better lmao) Now fit the descriptive word with the type of piece you have composed. If it is a happy minuet, call it "royal celebratory minuet". If it's a sad march, (eg. a funeral march) you can call it "Patrol of the Deceased". Using a thesaurus helps hugely, using the word "march" in a piece which itself is a march isn't exactly creative, nor is the word "sarabande in a sarabande. Hope that helped.

Aren't I entitled to my opinion? You can like 4"33" for all I care, I just don't like it. Some minimalism is pretty smart and sophisticated though.

just shut up, at least gardener is being patient and helpful -.- EDIT: Ok, your post is more helpful after you edited it now.

Hmm strange I hear so much about these requiems and beethoven unless they are FOR him but not by him. Music is so complicated haha.

Yeah, ever heard of a requiem? I'm not ignorant, I'm learning. You're the ignoramus here.

Yeah i mixed up with beethoven. My bad, and those epic fail pictures are loving annoying.

Ok, i'm gonna look it up, I guess there's more to it than meets the eye then? EDIT: right, looked it up in wikipedia, something about it being impossible to have total silence in the environment, and it is all about listening to sounds in the environment around the performer than the performer him/her self actually playing. Still don't like it though.

I don't like it, but not as much as rap... oh jesus don't get me started on that crap. Some minimalism is so stupid though. Like there's this piece called 4 minutes 33 seconds or something. There's this guy who sits by a piano for previously mentioned alloted time, not doing anything, ANYTHING, no noise. And people call that music?? It's not, it's turd.