Your First Work

My first works...don't laugh!

Sorry, with my other computer still down, no midi...they are soundclick mp3s.

1st composition

Etude no. 1 C Major

http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=3317710&q=hi

2nd composition

Reverie in A Major

http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=3343866&q=hi

3rd composition (sorry about the speed on this one, it is supposed to be a lot slower but somehow when I made the mp3 it got screwed up, and I can't fix it now.)

Etude no. 2

http://www.soundclick.com/util/getplayer.m3u?id=3343752&q=hi

Here's mine, its absolutely horrid.

Written somewhere around two years ago. It was for a forum RPG (text based, sorta DnDish). ^^

Piano, Flute, Clarinet, Contrabass, Bassoon, Cello, Violin

i wrote my first real and complete piece when i was 12 years ago and it was not written but played and recorded with a tape recorder, lol... i "wrote" the tune later on... but i have never written it in midi, or finale notation... i prefer not to.. :happy:

I am a bit late to this thread, so I am listening to some of the works. Some are good, some make me laugh, but hey its cool.

Here is the first work I ever notated. I wrote it about 5 or 6 years ago. I am fairly new to composition actually.

Anyways, here it is. A small Harpsichord work.

My god...

my first work wasn't really much of anything... just a random scrap of notes put together. :)

I didn't even really like it.... I was just playing around getting to know the software.

here it is....

First.mid

My god...

my first work wasn't really much of anything... just a random scrap of notes put together. :)

I didn't even really like it.... I was just playing around getting to know the software.

here it is....

Hey Bernstein that random scrap of notes being put together was better than my random scrap of notes being put together here is my first piece (It's nickname from now is Pile of Crap in some weird key)

Well, this isnt my FIRST piece. My first piece was written on paper. This is my second piece. :) (actually, it was written around the same time as another one that remains unfinished). This is an oboe concerto (If you could call it that). Its only the allegro moderato, so its not much. It doesnt have much of a second theme and it doesnt go into minor. This was probably written about 9 months ago. Happy listening! :)

yyy.MID

I don't still have it to post, but my first real composition ended up being unintended plagarism.

I *thought* I came upon a really cool cello melody, which hit me at 2 am, and I quickly wrote it down. Needless to say, in the morning, I found I had written out the cello part to one of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances as well as part of his Finale from the Symphony no. 9.

At first I thought it was just the basic patterns I'd gotten stuck in my head, but upon closer examination I found I had transcribed the part verbatim. I quickly found I shouldn't always trust my ear, it's more sensative than I originally thought and can get me in trouble.

Anyone else find they've accidently written something similar, or exactly like someone else, without knowing it at the time?

Anyone else find they've accidently written something similar, or exactly like someone else, without knowing it at the time?

Yup. All the time. I hate it when that happens. Its soooooooooo frusturating! >_<

Anyone else find they've accidently written something similar, or exactly like someone else, without knowing it at the time?

Sometimes a very close or exact quote of one of my favorite composers appears in my improvisation. This doesn't happen enough to bother me, and actually I think it is fun. A lot of the great composers quoted THEIR favorite composers/friends, why shouldn't we?

John Galt... the name is terribly familiar. Are you from Sibelius showcase? or perhaps the finale one? Maybe I've already talked with you some... darn is that a familiar name!

Oh wait... Ayn Rand character... haha nvvvvmmm

Oh wait... Ayn Rand character... haha nvvvvmmm

Haha, I've used this name *everywhere* where I don't use my gaming tag, so it's possible you've seen me somewhere before.

Yes, the highest form of flatery is imitation. I think it's great to quote a little of your favorite, or most inspiring composer in your works, just as long as you're not doing so in large sections and relying on their works, etc.

Ayn Rand is misguided and WRONG person! :angry:

;)

My First Work:Klavierstucke No.1

It sucked. No good modulations, unorganized, horrible harmonization, bad melodies, notation problems galore!!! Bash it, I really don't care.

John Galt, did you by any chance apply to MIT recently?

Hmm... My first Song... Well, I wrote a whole bunch of songs once, they were all horrible, and all lost. My first REAL song would probably be celebration, which I'm afraid I'm too lazy to attach. Though, perhaps I will soon.

John Galt, did you by any chance apply to MIT recently?

No, I did not. I'm attending Drury University.

My first piece was an arrangement of twinkle twinkle little star! But the first piece I actually made myself was this piece for wind quintet:

volefios.mid

I made it when I was 13. (nearly 3 years ago) I was quite pleased with it for a first composition!

enjoy :(

QUINT.mid

Ah, this died. Sucks to that.

Ah well.

This was supposed to be performed by all of my friends. :P

mitwill.mid

This is my first complete work. I wrote it when I was in college as a personal project. It is a 3 movent flute sonata with clarinet acc. instead of piano. The second movement is flute solo. I meant it to be a reflection of classical form.

Movement I=sonata allegro except theme 2 is up a fourth instead of the "proper" up a fifth.

Movement II= AA'BA''

Movement III= 5 part rondo "tarantella"

I'm proud of it. But I did a lot of unfinished musical "doodling" before this piece.

I.mus

II.mus

III.mus

Ack. I've just gone through my composition box from ages ago and am finding some shocking music that I don't want to take the time to put into a midi file. Most of them are just fragments, really.

Here's a few early compositions that I actually put on paper then after sifting through them some time ago, decided they were worthy to transfer to midi. These were done when I was around 20-22(1993-95). Wasn't new to music and improve, but to composition and putting things on paper. I've never had formal training in anything music related.

These aren't "the first" since I can't find my very first ones. But they're early, the first listed here especially painful:

score_bach_study2.pdf

Matthaeus_hw_03.MUS

Matthaeus_hw_03.pdf

For comparison sake, this is a composition I finished for "entertainment music" for my wedding in 2000. It's not my best work by far, but it's a fun spirited piece that suited the occassion. The strings are also out of range, I beleive :w00t: (Played as midi file by midi keyboard)

What an interesting thread, shouldn't it be in Composer's Headquarters though?

Here is my earliest extant work, a piano trio. I never dared to move behind what little theory i knew back then, which usually produced boring and monotonous results, but this piece was, although based primarily on three chords, suprisingly colourfull for my ''early period''.

Hopefully you'll have a good laugh, heh.

Edit: I found the courage to upload my very early sketch for the revision, it uses the same basic idea but it is improved on various points.

I enjoyed your work. It was humorous, catchy and had a clearly defined melody. I didn't find it boring at all!

I've uploaded this before... but hey, why not? I bet some on here haven't heard it. It does say "No 3", but this is actually the first part of the three-movement piano suite I wrote, and also the first piece of music I ever wrote.

Starlight Waltz

No_3___Starlight_Waltz.MUS

A midi would be nice, since I don't have finale installed and soundclick doesn't work for me.