Please help me decide a name for my composition

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

If no one has told you yet, use Sibelius to make a wav file or mp3 if it does. Take the mp3 and upload it to a place like boxnet (free or pay if you want more space). Then get a link to the file from boxnet and add that to your post.

If Sib does not make a mp3, use Audacity (free) with Lame Encoder (also free) which is a separate program that works with Audacity and follow the above with the mp3.

Ron

Piece in F major

^or march in F major.

About the 100 bpm tempo? Yes, I've got that problem too. And it gets even more annoying when the MP3 file you make is in that tempo too... :angry:

It is a very March-like piece indeed. I think that march in F major is a good name.

How can you manage to orchestrate anything?? I always fail miserably...

About the 100 bpm tempo? Yes, I've got that problem too. And it gets even more annoying when the MP3 file you make is in that tempo too... :angry:

It is a very March-like piece indeed. I think that march in F major is a good name.

How can you manage to orchestrate anything?? I always fail miserably...

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.