Leaderboard

I like this but I don't like it. I like it because it is very reminiscent of so many wonderful pieces for violin and piano/orchestra. That said, that's largely the reason I don't like this. You have definite talent here BUT... well, this isn't you. I think now you should strive for individuality... show us what YOU will do - not who you can imitate. That may seem harsh, but... with the talent you presented in this work.. it's the only step for you really. Grats.

Isn't this just an eye-opening gem in this conversation?

this was pretty nice :) Only thing I did not like was that I got the feeling you were trying your best very well to keep things interesting... to the extend of slightly exaggerating at times. Why all the runs, like m21-24, m71-78 etc?. I noticed you did this in the piano pieces as well. Another thing: wouldn't you've rather started the first 8 measures without the right hand octaves? It's twice the same figure (m1-8 and m9-16). The piano on its own (but even with the violin playing) is loud enough to play one note-voices and still to be heard well if you want it to do that. There were other things that I liked very much: m25-32 were pretty solid. I liked the piano and violin interplay in m33-34. Nice touch on the hairpin dynamics ( the: | > < | > < | ) in those two measures with the octaved triads in the piano part. Maybe you could try to space your staffs better at pages 3/6? Well done, this sounded very romantic.

also to give more intuitve example, good sample master can use various recorded sound bytes and put a collage, that someone could describe in certain terms of musical theory like tonality, that does not mean that sample magician knew or used any theory (of tonality) in his work. actually, he was rather using a practice of sampling (which may be or become theorized)! nevertheless, him creating a work from different relations, has nothing to do with actual understanding of musical theory in question.

I find this question slightly misleading and overgeneralizing. I have to assume, given the wording and the context of this website, that "Music Theory" refers to Western Tonal Music. This is a major overgeneralization, since Western Tonal Music is such a minuscule fraction of all the music ever created on Earth. I almost ALWAYS consider musical theories when I compose music, and simultaneously, I ALWAYS use my inner ear, the musical ear. But only every now and then is the theory I try to apply Western and/or Tonal, so I responded moderately to this post.