So on a bright Summer Day - "From Nothing, to Something" submission

I finally finished! I thought we were supposed to adapt the poem to be sung, so that's what I composed. For voice and piano trio!

Attached is the link to the youtube video, as well as the pdf of the score and the mp3 audio.

So on a bright summer day.pdf

I will now view your entry for so on a bright summer day and as of listening to it, it initially sounded nice however, though there’s one thing you should be careful on slurring those 16th note, triplets should be slurred and under one bow

Also, you should be careful about using the sticcatisimo articulation it should only be used sparingly when you want a special effect of a very exaggerated staccato marking

Nice meter change into the 6/8 in key change as well

At times the music feels a little bit clustered. Also make sure you use dynamics more often especially around that later parts

Anyways, I was a string player. I’m going to harp on the string parts more harshly because I feel like there could be more that could’ve been done with the strings along with different techniques to be used in different types of Bowing

Anyways, it was a nice piece. The only two problems though is that the 6/8 section felt very clustered and kind of muddy and there were very little use of dynamics near that part as well

but it’s a very solid work though

I will now give scores and reasons for faults

average: 8.19

The harmony was a little basic, however though I may give you props to that key change

you should read up above about the orchestration problem, but I feel like the strings could do much more and feel free to experiment more

for taste, I rated it so low just for the purpose that it was a good piece on its own. It wasn’t that much interesting though to my taste, I couldn’t really find anything that stands out.

however, though this was a good quality production and I wish you luck and further competitions and your composing career

On 9/20/2026 at 6:52 PM, Fruit hunter said:

I will now view your entry for so on a bright summer day and as of listening to it, it initially sounded nice however, though there’s one thing you should be careful on slurring those 16th note, triplets should be slurred and under one bow

Also, you should be careful about using the sticcatisimo articulation it should only be used sparingly when you want a special effect of a very exaggerated staccato marking

Nice meter change into the 6/8 in key change as well

At times the music feels a little bit clustered. Also make sure you use dynamics more often especially around that later parts

Anyways, I was a string player. I’m going to harp on the string parts more harshly because I feel like there could be more that could’ve been done with the strings along with different techniques to be used in different types of Bowing

Anyways, it was a nice piece. The only two problems though is that the 6/8 section felt very clustered and kind of muddy and there were very little use of dynamics near that part as well

but it’s a very solid work though

I will now give scores and reasons for faults

MelodiesThemes Motives	Harmony Chords Textures	Form Development Structure Time	Originality Creativity	Score Presentation	Instrumentation Orchestration Playability	Execution of Given Challenge	Taste
9	6.87	8.2	8.8	9.2	7.2	9.8	6.5

average: 8.19

The harmony was a little basic, however though I may give you props to that key change

you should read up above about the orchestration problem, but I feel like the strings could do much more and feel free to experiment more

for taste, I rated it so low just for the purpose that it was a good piece on its own. It wasn’t that much interesting though to my taste, I couldn’t really find anything that stands out.

however, though this was a good quality production and I wish you luck and further competitions and your composing career

Thank you for the wonderful feedback! I believe I forgot to add dynamics at the end by mistake... :(

Dynamics and bowings are up to interpretation I guess

Entry:

Average Score:9.3

Review:

Overall, I did not notice any engraving issues on the score presentation. The only thing I would recommend would be to use expression sim. when there is the same type of articulation. That way, you do not have to write out the articulation for each note. The execution of the piece of this piece has meets the challenge. Each part is easy to read and playability. The creative and originality reflect the German lieder in tone and character. Hence while it unique to this contest, it original in the sense that melody and harmony and creative in the instrumentation and such. Homophony is the primary texture throughout this piece and sounds like chorale.