A few of my submissions for a string quartet visiting my island

Hi all,

A professional string quartet is visiting my home island and are wonderfully taking compositions from local artists to perform. It is such a rare opportunity for me, as someone who has never had my work performed in public.

For this I adapted several pieces I have composed over the years for string quartet and to which I have made extensive revisions. Overall I am pleased with the music.

One interesting thing I have been doing recently is utilizing AI to provide perspectives around the rule based system on which tonal music rests. I recognize that some of my understanding around certain rules could benefit from more flexibility and AI can really challenge my thinking. Although where it is terrible is in actual advice on voice leading in practice. For example, if you give it a passage to harmonize - even with a well crafted prompt with necessary context - it will often fail.

I hope you all find the pieces enjoyable and please feel free to provide any comments as usual.

A bit of baroque Fun!.pdfStaccatisimo.pdf

Hello

These two pieces sound fantastic.

I really like the contrapuntal style of the first one.

It’s also a pleasure to see that the scores are so well-crafted, both in terms of their appearance and the dynamics and accents.

Also, the sound library looks brilliant – may I ask which one it is?

23 minutes ago, Luis Hernández said:

Hello

These two pieces sound fantastic.

I really like the contrapuntal style of the first one.

It’s also a pleasure to see that the scores are so well-crafted, both in terms of their appearance and the dynamics and accents.

Also, the sound library looks brilliant – may I ask which one it is?

thanks very much! It is actually the museScore4 strings soundest (standard one with the premium package). One must pay the annual subscription to access, of course. But is otherwise extremely good value considering the whole package.

26 minutes ago, Luis Hernández said:

Hello

These two pieces sound fantastic.

I really like the contrapuntal style of the first one.

It’s also a pleasure to see that the scores are so well-crafted, both in terms of their appearance and the dynamics and accents.

Also, the sound library looks brilliant – may I ask which one it is?

I should also add, though, that articulations and dynamics can make a huge difference. They bring it to life, essentially, and closer to how real musicians may interpret it. I personally love using staccatissimo to create a jaunty/witty attitude