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So this version lets you save files and gives you some of the basic functions of finale 2008. It might be great for someone who just started writing music, or a nice addition to someone who uses sibelius. I have not found any catches or whatever and I think it is more of a publicity thing than an illegal upload. (Please let me know if I'm wrong though). This is the site: http://www.kbsbv.nl/...k7download.html (it's dutch) you can fill in whatever name (naam), address (adres), zipcode (postcode), town/city (woonplaats) as long as your email is correct. I have tried it myself and they don't spam you with advertisements. Just use a junk mailaddress (one ought to have at least one of those right ;)) if you like. Press 'verzend' (= send). A link will be sent to you in an email, click it and download starts.

Great this was very good. Interesting since I dont play a string instrument to hear a real performance of the piece. It has a lovely air about it, very captivating, intruiging... do you want more words from me? This goes with my favs!

Alright, Stefan. Again, you've got some cool sounds, as usual. I like your usage and transformations of the primary theme. :) It was all very familiar and interesting-sounding. I think you could've done just a bit more, because it gets to be VERY familiar by the end. I don't feel a sense of a story unfolding, so it's like a picture of a group of people. It's all interesting, but there's no central focus. Ask yourself: where is the climax? Am I really building up to it and what do I do after it? Are there any false climaxes before it to build listener expectation? etc. Some specifics. NO high Es for trumpet in a piece this long and heavy. You may have gotten the idea from my piece, writing even up to high G. That's fine when the trumpet player is playing the role of a big band lead trumpet. It's not appropriate for legit settings: people do it occasionally for stuff like trumpet choir pieces, but it doesn't happen in quintet. If you really really want that note here, you have to score it for a higher trumpet. I'd say Eb trumpet, any lower is too low, any higher is too thin-sounding elsewhere. But of course, you have to then decide: do you want the guy to switch to the Eb in the piece, or play the entire thing on Eb? But you really should know what an Eb trumpet sounds like before making that decision, because it's not the same thing. I think many if not all of your borrowed 3:2 rhythms don't add anything to the piece except the odd feeling of a polyrhythm. On the flipside, I think every single 4:3 with sixteenth notes should be rewritten as 12/16 bars, because that's what's really happening. Also, why not turn the measures leading up to m.43 into a metric modulation? You totally set it up, and then disappointed us. Final critique: I don't think either key change worked. The first one would've been alright if there was more than ONE pitch being played at the key change. The second one simply has too many people jumping weird, outside intervals. Thanks for sharing, keep hacking!

your music is pretty easy to listen to - which is a good thing. It is very approachable (if you get what I mean). By spontaneous do you mean they are improvisations? Only thing is that all 4 of the pieces you uploaded are pretty hard for me to tell apart; one because they sound pretty much alike in style and also in mood, and two because you have no scores (the dancers piece didnt help because it was very different). So, as far as what they are (rather than talking about all the things they are not or have not) I think you did very well, especially if they were improvs (but if not than still).

So what piece was it that you wanted to show us here? the one in the player or the one on the box.net site? I don't know what I think of the one in the player... samples are not working well enough for it to be on it's own imo. The one on box did, and I liked it! Very 'no worries, just jam the buttons' vibe. Well done.

Very nice indeed! Only thing I did not like was the flute instrument in the 'approaching the altar' piece, which has the same swell every single note and became a bit annoying to me. But considering these are just demos (and even when not considering that), they are nontheless definitely great!

This sounds very nice, with a lot of excitement and an addictive rhythmic pattern. I liked it, please do fix the score

Very lovely beginning, and nice crescendo throughout the piece. I liked the switching harmonies from 0:30-0:40, like venturing into some unknown land, however briefly. Maybe a somewhat drowsy child peaking through the backseat window of a car. Or timetraveller, that could work too Nice job, I liked it. Hope you post some more.

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911) was a composer who belonged to the post-romantic school. He is well known for writing 10 huge, lengthy symphonies. His 8th is also a choral symphony nicknamed the symphony of a thousand. It requires about a thousand musicians to perform, the standard sections are all increased and many other instruments are included; piccolo clarinets, tam-tam, deep bells, glockenspiel, celesta, piano, harmonium, organ, mandolin, offstage brass, 2 mixed choirs, a boys choir and many vocal soloists. Although large orchestras are common with Mahler, and nearly all his symphonies require voices of some kind, these are by far the largest forces he ever requested. Also, most of his symphonies according to several websites I've visited to verify your claim of the small number (120 required for the symphonien of mahler's performance), state practically the same as this dictionary entry given. He wrote for large orchestral forces and is very much known as that. A little more comical, though I think 100% factual, reference to Mahler can be found here: Mahler