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Hello @TheGreatEscaper and welcome to the forum! I love this Mazurka-like prelude you've written! It has so much individuality and character! It reminds me at different points of both Chopin and Prokofiev. The chromaticism is very dark and ominous. The fact that you play your own works is great as well (and apparently you've already played @ComposaBoi's sonata as well! Great job and it's great to see this kind of interaction! You're an asset to the forum!) Formally the piece is a perfect little miniature. The melody sounds like something out of another world when it comes in on the 7th and 11th of the tonality - it's very subversive and surprising harmonically and anything but ordinary. And the accompaniment is like its own melody too that sets the stage for a very ghastly piece that would've been appropriate as a Halloween-themed piece. Thank you for joining us and for sharing this prelude and I look forward to listening to the others! P.S.: Thank you for posting just one piece into the forum to let the reviewers get just a taste of perhaps one of your better pieces instead of suddenly bombarding the forum with a bunch of music indiscriminately! You don't know how many composers do this and it really annoys the people who commonly review others' works here because we don't know which piece to listen to and it turns the forum into a dumping ground for works.

Great use of percussion in this work, including a load of techniques and instruments I'd never heard of. I hope the propane tank is empty; otherwise you could have an explosive ending!

Hello again @Vasilis Michael! What can I say? This is a masterful sonata that I can enjoy from beginning to end as if it's a masterwork from the classical era! Honestly, the only part I ended up skipping through is the double exposition in the 1st movement! You are steeped in classical pianism and it shows! There isn't a single awkward moment nor bad transition in the whole piece! The tonality is so free flowing and adventurous! It's amazing that you managed to start and end each of the movements in the same key - the freedom of the chromaticism is something I'd expect of free-tonal pieces that modulate when they want to without any obligation to stay in any particular key. The abundance of themes is also very Mozartean. And they are very delightful and musically interesting - I wouldn't exclude nor add to any of the movements in any way. I think they are perfect just the way they are. I don't usually like slow movements but the peace and calmness and the space in your 2nd movement was captivating and adept - it kept my attention throughout and has a warm place in my heart. The minuet and trio was also very expert - I loved the E7 b9's! All your phrase extensions are also perfectly calculated and none are too long nor too short. But my favorite movement is for sure the 4th and final - I loved the cross relations! And I think your chromaticism really reached new heights in the final movement. It also has a somewhat Mazurka-like character to it that I really like. Overall - I cannot say enough good things about this piece! And the fact that you provided a very polished final score engraving for when you compiled the whole sonata in the final YT video is great! What program did you use? Thanks for sharing and by all means keep going! Do you ever plan on writing a piano concerto?

This is a really good piece!!! Interesting name lol 😂, i did see some impossibly high clarinet 1 stuff, but i think if you replaced it with an Eb clarinet you’d be fine! Awesome piece

It reminds me of 20th century neoclassical. Very nice.

Good evening again, dear friends. Although I have posted all the movements of the sonata separately, here I am sharing the entire sonata, where you can listen to all the movements one after the other for a better experience and appreciation of the work. It may not be something innovative, but it is the musical language that expresses me, and that musical language is classical pre-romantic. I hope you enjoy it. Thank you once again.

I like how creepy it sounds and the dissonance you use! Kinda reminds me of shostakovich!

I like how the brass is offset from the beat sometimes! and that little piano thing at the end is cool!

Hey everyone 🙂 I've been slowly plugging away at a cycle of 24 preludes. I got pretty slow with this (ending up only writing like one prelude per year for the past couple of years) so hopefully I'll pick up the pace now that I'm pretty close to the end (8 left to go!) Bb Minor is maybe my favourite key signature, so it was pretty hard to decide what this prelude would be like. The theme is 'Masquerade', and I think the personality of the piece is quite hard to pin down, a mix of sarcasm and earnestness. Hope you enjoy! 🙂 this is my first piece I'm posting on this forum, but obviously feel free to check out anything else on my channel + especially the first fifteen preludes in the cycle so far, haha

I couldn't help but fall in love with this track from Silksong - Cogwork Dancers after 8-bit music theory covered it:

btw I know this isn't really playble on a piano, this wasn't meant to be a piece to be played

counterpoibnt.pdf counterpoibnt.mp3 would love to hear feedback on mistakes

After undergoing plenty of struggle to find a proper textual setting capable of matching the rhythmic patterns of this vocal fugue, I decided to settle for an altered version of the "Libera me" movement commonly found on Requiem masses. Despite the minor changes required for the text to fit the subject of the fugue, its treatment throughout has been a conscious attempt to make it as audibly intelligible as possible, as opposed to the vast majority of my previous vocal works, where any regard for the text was completely secondary to the music. YouTube video link:

Yes!! Anyway, the sounds you've got are nice.

not sure if I can meet the deadline, I guess I might be able to share a part of a multisection comp

I'll give it a shot

Thanks Luis: that's exactly what I was aiming for! Can't wait to hear what it sounds like when played by real musicians.

Congratulations. I think it sounds great. I certainly think it has a very classical feel to it, but in many places it veers towards something more modern, such as some of the progressions in the slow section. I notice that it is treated mainly as melody plus accompaniment, which is quite light and with little emphasis on the counterpoint. All in all, it works wonderfully.

That sounds very pleasant. I always think these types of buildings are wonderful.

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This is present because I tried to include the harmonic characteristics of both Carol's at once which didn't always result in nice consonances. Thank you for your review!

Pretty awesome how you were able to seamlessly merge the themes together. Fun dissonance sprinkled in every so often, which could very well be hints of a Bad Santa making his way through town. Or perhaps the Grinch is waiting nearby to cause mayhem. But overall the themes are pleasant and you changed them up to incorporate your own voice. The ending is very pleasant and have fun harmonies. But I do hear a tiny bit of sharp dissonance hidden in the passage. It sounds like something didn't quite go as planned, but it was too subtle for Santa to notice.

Here is my first submission!

I have now done this aforementioned mash-up! Thanks for the idea @Bill G! Here it is: