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  To The Stars | for Clarinet and Piano | !!! 2025 Revision DONE !!!
  
  By Ferrum
  Started Wednesday at 05:59 PM
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  ★Forensics | Enter-Exit Double Theme
  
  By FILMSCORE
  Started April 14
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  East of the Sun, West of the Moon - complete ballet
  
  By BipolarComposer
  Started Monday at 01:14 PM
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  Just composed this baroque quartet, what do you guys think? i was asked to add a score so there we go!
  
  By Elad_Hevron
  Started April 18
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  Myths of the Deep Woods
  
  By BipolarComposer
  Started April 13
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  Theme for a Star Trek podcast
  
  Alex Weidmann · Started April 1
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  For those of you who also utilize Musescore 4.5.1. I bought and tested the Vienna * Brass * plugin, so you don't have to. Check it out before you buy;
  
  UncleRed99 · Started Yesterday at 05:14 AM
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  Death (Setting of WB Yeats' poem)
  
  user011235 · Started Monday at 07:50 PM
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  The Pasture
  
  user011235 · Started April 11
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  Bagatelle in D flat Major
  
  Alant · Started March 31
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- Theme for a Star Trek podcast
  
  By PeterthePapercomPoser · Posted 12 minutes ago
  
  Hey @Alex Weidmann! I listened to the most recent update (#32). The main theme has the makings of a great feel-good space western! But, I do have to say that in my opinion, the key modulations in the piece (especially the last one at the very end) sound out of place and unnecessary, like you're changing the key just for it's own sake without really any real musical reason guiding that decision. Also, I like how the piece starts very underwhelmingly with really soft high strings and slowly builds up to the main theme first on trumpets and then scored more fully with strings on the main theme. But then, the arc kinda doesn't know what to do with itself after 1:07 because it feels like the climax of the piece has already been reached and the music doesn't know whether it wants to keep growing to an even bigger climax or die back down to a whisper. Those are my immediate perceptions of the piece. Thanks for sharing and let us know if your music ends up getting featured!
- For those of you who also utilize Musescore 4.5.1. I bought and tested the Vienna * Brass * plugin, so you don't have to. Check it out before you buy;
  
  By FILMSCORE · Posted 1 hour ago
  
  Its not enough to just HEAR the music, youve also got to SEE the music, and im not talking Notation-Score. Regarding the FINAL-MIX-DOWN , iv often thought to myself........... " Yeah that sound ok ".........Without even checking to see the levels-Balance. in the example below: 1: The French Horns were 5-db OVER 100% 2: The Trumpets were 27-db LOWER 100% 3: The Trombones were 6-db LOWER 100% The Final Result sounded imbalanced
- For those of you who also utilize Musescore 4.5.1. I bought and tested the Vienna * Brass * plugin, so you don't have to. Check it out before you buy;
  
  By AngelCityOutlaw · Posted 3 hours ago
  
  I have continuously had a problem where it fails to recognize that I have the libraries installed, so I have to open their stupid MuseHub program for it to rediscover them. The last time this happened about a month ago, the MuseHub site claimed I did not even have an account, so I suspected that now I may just lose access to the libraries I'd purchased. I emailed their tech support and got the most useless person in the world on the other side who I'm convinced wasn't even reading what I sent to him and was just throwing out pre-conditioned responses. Eventually, I took a gamble by going "Creating Account" and thankfully, it still had my information so that I could use the libraries until the next time it happens... Anyway, I really like the long articulations in the Berlin Strings and Winds and I've been using them on my upcoming album. They are a much cheaper alternative to the Kontakt libraries of course, but they too are woefully imbalanced. I have to crank the violas up in the mixer and turn the violins 1 down. Brass instruments do have some great sounds, but are rendered unusable by imbalances between articulations. It's unfortunate that Musescore 4 has been fumbled so badly and they seem to just not care about improving what seem to me fairly simple things to fix. If their customer service is an indicator, it seems that apathy is to blame.
- Death (Setting of WB Yeats' poem)
  
  By user011235 · Posted 10 hours ago
  
  Hello! I've never heard that Brahms piece, I'll have to take a listen at some point You're probably right about those leaps being a bit difficult, but they should be doable with practice. I can do them and I'm far from a good singer 😅 A C# would work in m. 46 but I like the way it sounds to move from natural to sharp in the next measure. Thank you for the feedback!
- The Pasture
  
  By user011235 · Posted 10 hours ago
  
  Hi Henry, glad you enjoyed! I'm fairly sure about the high Bb, i'm picturing it being sung in a thin voice so that may offset some of the drama

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