Acceptance

Hi Everyone!,

Acceptance is the first multi instrument character piece I have written. It is part of a broader concept: a Cycle of Death, in which I explore the theme of mortality across three pieces: Denial, Acceptance, and Rest. Using the Dies Irae as a harmonic backbone.

In this piece, each instrument has a distinct role:

• The piano represents the truth of death that must be accepted.

• The flute embodies the human conversation with oneself: longing, hoping, and ultimately accepting.

• The violin and cello symbolize the path toward acceptance, guiding the listener through the journey.

It was very fun composing this! Especially love bars:29-36 and 53-60 Let me know what you guys think!
Hope you enjoy it!

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Hi there, @MinGry, welcome to the Forum!

This is a decent piece of music, for a start, although, I do realize there a lot of compositional errors too.

Bars 1-2: One of my favourite parts. It kind of has a nice, catholic tone to it.

I would say, this quiet opening really fits my style. Appreciate that, though stop writing tempo numberic markings, and start using muiscal terms more. (eg. Allegro; Fast, or Largo; Slow, etc.)

Bars 2-4:

This is where things start to get messy.

you have a clear sense of 'adequate rhythm'. The problem with the piano's entrance is how it just sits there like the ending of the second movement in Haydn's 34th Sonata. You have a plain, split-up C7th Chord. Not interesting. This is the entrance of the piano! Not at all. It feels like some kind of bystander, doesn't it? (for reference of the chord type reference, go to 9:53, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Db-XgC7tUqM) And, also, there is a lack of pattern. There is at the first beat there, and then you lose it. It becomes a mess. One of the key principles of composition as I have learnt from my teacher was opposite movement and balance. Here, you are just moving one way. Up. (Until the last beat, but, yeah, just talking about the majority here...). That part can be rethought, can't it?

Bar 5:

you have a good idea here. Decent, to the least. the piano plays a memorable sequence. You got my recognition here. Piano plays a great accompaniment alongside a melody. Wait?! Melody! I forgot that!

Anyways, the melody is a single note of a strict f? No literally, the tonic is just sticking there like, I don't know, some person that stands in the rain for hours. Kind of, I don't know. Interesting.

But I see what you you wanted to embrace there. You wanted to tell us, 'Guys! This is the start of something big!'

Sadly, though, you could have done that in other ways too, other than saying 'F!'

(not done yet, gonna come back later)

@TristanTheTristan Thanks for the welcome! and thank you for taking the time of your day to check out my music! I really appreciate any feedback and looking forward to hear what you got say more! 

It's already been very interesting composing for multiple instruments my primary background is piano. I especially am blown away how much you can get away with modifying the motifs cause it feels like the instruments themselves can ground a motif pretty well. 

On 2/11/2026 at 7:09 PM, MinGry said:

@TristanTheTristan Thanks for the welcome! and thank you for taking the time of your day to check out my music! I really appreciate any feedback and looking forward to hear what you got say more! 

It's already been very interesting composing for multiple instruments my primary background is piano. I especially am blown away how much you can get away with modifying the motifs cause it feels like the instruments themselves can ground a motif pretty well. 

 

Hey there, I am also a pianist, not as like, a job, but more as a hobby. I mean, I am just a student, you know. Nothing special about me... 

Small Tip: Try to read transcript your music for solo piano, but don't write it down! Start easy with 2 instruments, and then get more and more!

(No plans allowed) 🙂

Bye! (See you later I mean. Hasta Luego...)