Bagatelle Nº6 | Om. 101

Hi again!

Here, as promised, I submit this small piece for the Halloween... Competition!
Is it Halloween-ish? Dunno, probably not so much... But this is for you to judge.

Do NOT expect anything bombastic though. 

It's a trio for flute, piano and violin so it's 3 instruments. ✔️
It's more than 3 mins, lesss than seven! ✔️
It's somewhat submitted before the deadline!  ✔️

And it should definitely be entirely playable.

Since here everyone has its own preferences, I am submitting the complete pdf (attached in this very post)+ the mp3 + a YouTube video with the typical (or not that typical maybe) way of showing sheet music. 

Now, back to more composing. I heard that the competition is strong between the contestants. 

MP3 Right here (or at the end of the post, one never knows).  

YouTube video HERE.

The deadline for this competition is still a week or two ahead!
 

Look at the rules and drop your piece!!!

 

Kind regards!

Hey Damniel my boy @Omicronrg9!

This one is goddamn grotesque my man. The beginning is a bit frightening as fitting to a Halloween themed music, nice repeated pizzicato motive used on the violin. But to me what stands out is after the first section in b.31 when an innocent Mozart k.331 like theme appears. Even it starts normal, I still don't believe its apparent naivety, and you mix that apparently naive theme so well with the Halloween grotesque mood with those dissonant but not overly dissonant harmonies, making the music somewhat dragging between naivety and evil like a darkened version of Alice in the Wonderland. This feeling is amazing to portrayed to be honest. I like starting from b.92 all these elements are put tighter together for an even more exciting and wonderful contest of moods. Maybe adding some glissandos in the violin and flutter tongue in flute will make the music even more evil. Thx very much for this weirdly wonderful piece!

Henry

7.5

lol I love the character you put in your posts as much as your music. 

This is so cool... descending chromatic harmonies like spiders, soft sweet out of tune sounding melodies, extra spooky reverb... so great. I really like how you gave us scary vibes, but there was a sense of lightheartedness too. Perfect score for character, this is a front runner to me!

Nice work Daniel, glad to see you back around! 😄 

vote for me

What a wonderful piece of music. Musically speaking, I greatly appreciate your abilty to develop the motif over the course of the work. It was entrancing and even went it felt dissonant, I was listening with intent. I do have specific critiques on the engraving/ format of the score:

I think it would be a better decision to increase the margins of the entire score. All printers have a margin where they will not put any ink on the outside of the paper (This is called the bleeds). If you were to view your PDF and hit the print button, it will automatically update the margins. (I have attached two screenshots to show this). I also think you can space out the measures more in certain spots (mm.31-58) even when instruments are playing. A pianist would read a part with all 3 instruments on there to help with coordination and having it spaced out may be a nice convenience. Lastly, I recommend adding system dividers to separate the score and to add rehearsal marks so one day, a trio can actually rehearse and use specific places in the score to practice. 

Lovely video to accompany this as well! 🙂

On 10/23/2025 at 10:41 AM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

when an innocent Mozart k.331 like theme appears

God damn it's true I'm just listening to Barenboim's rendition of it🤣.
 

On 10/23/2025 at 10:41 AM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Maybe adding some glissandos in the violin and flutter tongue in flute will make the music even more evil.

I may try again with glisses and fluttering, on some other piece that is 🗿.

Thank you for your feedback Henry :). 

 

On 10/25/2025 at 7:03 AM, therealAJGS said:

7.5

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🙂


 

On 10/25/2025 at 6:13 PM, TristanTheTristan said:

 

Melodies Themes Motives	Harmony Chords Textures	Form Development Structure Time	Originality Creativity	Score Presentation	Instrumentation Orchestration Playability	Execution of Given Challenge	Taste
8.5	9	7	8	10	7.5	9.5	8

 

Wow! I am going to be Robert Schumann!

-Hats off Gentlemen! A genius!

Anyways, Average: 8.4375, Above Average

 

I sadly see this in dark mode 

Thank you Tristan! Seems I passed the test this time!

 

12 hours ago, MK_Piano said:

All printers have a margin where they will not put any ink on the outside of the paper (This is called the bleeds). If you were to view your PDF and hit the print button, it will automatically update the margins

Hi MK_Piano! I tried doing that but the margins don't seem to be updated in any config. I myself have printed a lot of my own scores and ended up preferring two:10mm and 15mm. This time I went with 10mm. I attach this video, perhaps you see something I do not. I checked other printing options and found out one that would increase my margins, but wouldn't increasing margins make margins bigger anyways and then I would end up having a lot of extra margin (My margins + Bleed)? Thanks for the heads up, perhaps I'm still missing something.
Video here (I can't upload mp4s). I also tried with other printers and that is when the extra margins came, but I had to activate them.



I had some handmade notebook with margin = 15mm at hand. Is this something that only happens with margins less than 15mm?

 

12 hours ago, MK_Piano said:

A pianist would read a part with all 3 instruments on there to help with coordination and having it spaced out may be a nice convenience

What do you think of a piano part with reduced staves of the other instruments?  What would you prefer as a pianist? Full score with dividers, full score but reduced parts that ain't piano, or just piano? Would it be a 100% one option no matter what? Am I asking too many questions 😁? @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu as a pianist yourself, what's your take on it? I'm also interested!
For example, in this case we have 0 blank bars in the piano part.

I would have thought it's spaced out enough. E.g: It's 10-8-7, and all quarter notes in page 3. Would you make it 5-5-5-5-5 or 6-7-6-6? Doing it any less than 5 when no instruments are playing would be difficult for me (matter of tastes), I could do it on demand of course. 
 

12 hours ago, MK_Piano said:

I recommend adding system dividers to separate the score

🥶 I'll think about it. 

 

13 hours ago, MK_Piano said:

add rehearsal marks

I don't tend to in compositions. Just in waltzes! I always do it in arrangements. Why? Not sure. I guess I have not seen them much in anything else than modern music and others' arrangements, but it's a good practice. That or circling bar numbers, but I guess that's less aesthetic. 

Thank you man, it's always cool when someone comes and makes you ponder your choices and you get to learn a thing or two at the very least. 


 

On 10/25/2025 at 5:12 PM, Thatguy v2.0 said:

lol I love the character you put in your posts as much as your music. 

This is so cool... descending chromatic harmonies like spiders, soft sweet out of tune sounding melodies, extra spooky reverb... so great. I really like how you gave us scary vibes, but there was a sense of lightheartedness too. Perfect score for character, this is a front runner to me!

Nice work Daniel, glad to see you back around! 😄 

 

 

vote for me

 

Thanks for your feedback and your optimism 😁. Hoping to stay for a long while this time. Time is scarce but I'll try to catch up! 

I'll vote for you


Kind regards!!