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Okay, I really hate to poo-poo on something that Chopin the webmaster obviously put so much work and time into, but I'm primarily doing this with the fact in mind that he wants this site to be professional, functional, and a pleasant user experience. It's a reflection on his work and brainchild that there are SO many issues both functional and cosmetic. It doesn't look professional at all when perusing this forum to see so many issues everywhere one turns. I personally would much prefer the previous site where everything WORKED well and looked okay. About the only thing I like about the new layout is the sleek look of the skin. But the layout glitches alone kill what little appreciation I have for that. The bugs: There are still a crud-ton of bugs that haven't been taken care of. Many of them are a result of switching from the old format to the new while still retaining many of the functions of the old. Apparently multimovement works still cannot be uploaded, editting an uploaded work causes problems, there's still no way of editting one's avatar, 'restore' sized browsers still don't get the website placed in the proper place to be able to see it all, some links do funky things, the switch from each upload getting its own page to being an extention of one's profile page has caused a huge amount of bugs in the uploads and on profile navigation, the "view users who have listened to this piece" link still links to a page of white text on white background... seriously, how many bugs must there be before starting over becomes the only option that will actually take care of the problems?? Right now it's like a scavenger hunt for every clear piece of sand on a beach. The interface: it stinks. The home page (note: not the index page) looks horrible. The post 'feed' is cumbersome and confusing and apparently you can post onto restricted areas by it. And profile pages look horrible for the same reason (not to mention the bugs on the profile pages). The "recent uploads" list was an AWESOME feature that has all but vanished. It's a huge pain to simply find an upload by a specific person anymore. The profile pages have far too many tabs and links that are named the same thing (info, music, etc) but go to different areas. To forgo loss of interest because of wordiness, I'll go ahead and leave it at that. Really, the whole idea of changing to this new format was for a better site. It ain't. It makes me wonder if it is really worth it to continue tackling the avalanche of issues for the sole sake of this new layout. Thank you for reading. Kindest regards. -Peter

This is something of a grey area in composition. the way see it is: if you were to take another composer's melody, motif or even entire composition that would be copying. However if you did this on purpose to create an effect, i.e. a musical joke then that would be acceptable and is usually termed as a 'qoutation', for example the prelude to schnitecke's gogol suite ends with a qoutation of the opening motif from Beethoven's 5th symphony. Imitation is a different matter. Imitation is the copying of a style of writing rather than specific musical examples. For example one write music which immitates the classical style. Another example would be that you could imitate the style of a Mozart piano sonata, this instance would be deemed pastiche... such as Manuel Ponce's sonata for guitar in the style of Schubert. I hope this helps :)

Make sure that the reading is recorded and that you post it here.

^ IAWTP 110% If you want a professional site, make it a professional site. The people/community have nothing to do with it until the site is flawless (or close enough that we don't notice it's not).