Yesterday at 09:45 AM1 day Hiihiiii!!! This is my submission for the Spring 2026 Landscapes Competition :)For my landscape, I've chosen the mountains of Zhangjiajie, China. The first time that I saw these mountains, I was awestruck by just the sheer scale of them. Massive peaks and towers, overgrown with centuries-old moss, reaching beyond the clouds. Really just gorgeous. I wanted to try to write about them.The piece starts off zoomed outwards, depicting the sparseness of the clouds, until eventually, a melody begins to creep towards the first real theme--which I call the garden theme. The focus is on the garden now, zoomed in, it's a sort of natural oasis along the side of one of the tall mountainous pillar. It's beautiful, lush, full, until the garden begins to die as winter comes. The harmony because sparse and vague again, with large spontaneous gusts of wind... just very dry sounding overall. That is, until months later, the clouds darken, promising a heavy storm. Anticipation builds, until eventually, rain comes pouring down, so densely that it's almost like a wall. It's the first rain of spring!!! After the rain settles down, the garden comes to life again with the re-entry of the garden theme!! The piece ends as the focus zooms back out onto the clouds, and the tension finally resolves again.My goal with the piece was to try to represent the life cycle of the plant life out in the setting of Zhangjiajie. I hope you all like it !!!!AmidstTheCloudsAndFlowers.mp3AmidstTheCloudsAndFlowers.pdf Edited yesterday at 09:55 AM1 day by InstrumentalistElle (cont)
Yesterday at 10:55 AM1 day 55 minutes ago, InstrumentalistElle said:Hiihiiii!!! This is my submission for the Spring 2026 Landscapes Competition :)For my landscape, I've chosen the mountains of Zhangjiajie, China. The first time that I saw these mountains, I was awestruck by just the sheer scale of them. Massive peaks and towers, overgrown with centuries-old moss, reaching beyond the clouds. Really just gorgeous. I wanted to try to write about them.The piece starts off zoomed outwards, depicting the sparseness of the clouds, until eventually, a melody begins to creep towards the first real theme--which I call the garden theme. The focus is on the garden now, zoomed in, it's a sort of natural oasis along the side of one of the tall mountainous pillar. It's beautiful, lush, full, until the garden begins to die as winter comes. The harmony because sparse and vague again, with large spontaneous gusts of wind... just very dry sounding overall. That is, until months later, the clouds darken, promising a heavy storm. Anticipation builds, until eventually, rain comes pouring down, so densely that it's almost like a wall. It's the first rain of spring!!! After the rain settles down, the garden comes to life again with the re-entry of the garden theme!! The piece ends as the focus zooms back out onto the clouds, and the tension finally resolves again.My goal with the piece was to try to represent the life cycle of the plant life out in the setting of Zhangjiajie. I hope you all like it !!!!As a chinese person, I appreciate your love for my motherland.Anyways, the music is atonal. I think that isn't the BEST way to describe this place.The structure is weird too. I liked the brief g major chord parts.Melodies Themes Motives 2Harmony Chords Textures 1Form Development Structure Time 7Originality Creativity 10Score Presentation 10Instrumentation Orchestration Playability 8Execution of Given Challenge 6Taste 6Average 7.5
15 hours ago15 hr Author 12 hours ago, TristanTheTristan said:As a chinese person, I appreciate your love for my motherland.Anyways, the music is atonal. I think that isn't the BEST way to describe this place.The structure is weird too. I liked the brief g major chord parts.Melodies Themes Motives 2Harmony Chords Textures 1Form Development Structure Time 7Originality Creativity 10Score Presentation 10Instrumentation Orchestration Playability 8Execution of Given Challenge 6Taste 6Average 7.5Hi!! Thank you for your feedbackk. I actually tried to imitate harmonies from as many Chinese composers as I could find (could only find a few so took some inspiration from some Japanese composers too) and I thought that I did alright. I was wondering, what made you think it's atonal? For reference, here were my biggest inspos:https://www.youtube.com/clip/Ugkx9sWO_07nOcVc31RWLQukpCSRIRGoLMvihttps://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxCY-tbOrbg9ovMKSOY2F8QWCYvY1tz2w6https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkximtvrASDQuNCaQ47ieLpRZ6iXuaxGym1https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxJnJpo0JuB56eB7LF3MQe0J9b-F1EbNEytytyyy btw !!!
5 hours ago5 hr A lot of overlapping perfects. I see you tried to imitate birds and animals. I see you have done it in a creative way, so I gave you a 10. Edited 5 hours ago5 hr by TristanTheTristan
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