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The texture, yes. But - especially in the intro, your harmonic language/voicings are simply 1-3-5-7 type voicings. The counterpoint and motion throw in some interesting passing notes, but as far as the vertical harmony goes, you tend towards simple and effective voicings of basic 7th chords. Obviously - and this is part of what appeals to me - as the piece progresses, the voicings get closer and the harmony branches out along with the rhythmic content. But, what I particularly liked about the first part in general was the simplicity of the harmony. There's a lot of energy and power in simple chords. What were you aiming at?

There's a couple ways of going about this. I'm going to show you my preferred method: editing a clef to create a fake key signature next to it. The great advantage of this is to keep spacing around the beginning of a staff consistent and therefore cleaner. However, it is less flexible when it comes to more complicated situations where key signatures changes a lot. In those cases, using symbols and manually putting the accidentals in is usually better. But this is very dependent on the music's complexity. To do the "edit clef" method: 1) Have your notes all ready to go with accidentals in place. See our default example below. 2) Go to House Style > Edit Symbols You will get the following dialog box: 3) Locate the "Clefs" section. The boxed area in red are the clefs that will show up when you press "Q" (or Create > Clef) to create a clef. You will have to edit one of these for it to be usable. I edited the one circled in green, the old-style double treble clef. Those are so rare nowadays that its usually safe to edit. Remember, this is a House Style edit so it will follow only this score; it is not a global change to the defaults. 4) Click "Edit" and you will get the following dialog box: Remove the old clef by selecting the symbols from the box below and deleting them. Be sure to give it a name. 5) Locate the main clef you want to use, in this case, treble clef. This is your "main" symbol. 6) Adjust the spacing so that it is centered on the G line. Note that a "space" is the amount of distance between two lines on a staff. A value of "-1" will center it like a normal Treble clef. 7) Click "Add" to add the flat. 8) Locate the flat in the list of symbols. Hit OK. You will see that it is added to the list of "Other Symbols". Notice too that it is overlapping the treble clef. We need to space it out a bit. 9) Adjust the spacing as desired. For a lone A-flat, values of "-0.5 up" and "3.5 right" work well. Hit OK. 10) Now you have a new clef. You'll see it updated in the clefs dialog by pressing "Q": Select it and hit OK. Then place it in the score. 11) Here is what we have now: Remember the key signature is fake, so flats will not automatically go away yet. We need to do this manually. We also need to fix the spacing. 12) Fix the spacing by going to "House Style > Engraving Rules" 13) Select the "Clefs and Key Signatures" page and adjust the "Initial clef width" to a larger number. The default is usually 3.5. I used 5 spaces in this example. Hit OK. You will now get this: 14) Hide those accidentals by selecting them and hitting CTRL + SHIFT + H (or "Edit > Hide or Show > Hide") You will get this: Hidden things will not print by default. Turn off hidden objects by hitting CTRL + ALT + H (or "View > Hidden Objects"). Check your spacing and make any adjustments as necessary. The final score in the example would look like this: Hope this helps! Good luck!

Hi chopin. I have a mere esthetical issue. I don't mind the new additions on the site, I do mind however where they are placed. The two huge new buttons, next to the previously modest RSSfeed place really destroy the ballanced site layout. I feel like all additions are just somewhere placed, without regard for the site layout. I think that is making it too crowded and ugly. :( Because now there are two places with buttons (the help/notification area) and the sitemap/liked/rss. And in Network mode there are two tab bars as well. and maybe even a 3rd on the left side. I think it is just getting too much places where buttons are located. I also would like to say that I do not think it is necessary to offer two location for the same functionality. The chat bar is providing the chat function. Whatever people think of that I can imagine its functionality. But I would not use that place for applications and buttons as well. Especially not when the functionality is already available. The "tips" above the shoutbox is too much text as well, adding to the cramped experience of the layout. I know what effort it took to design this whole place. So no argument from me here. But please keep the layout somewhat intact and do not make it even more crowded.

Yeah, to close the thread was silly. That's the kind of, well, stupid moderation that I'm annoyed at. On topic: derivative quotations are ok, but outright plagiarism should be prosecuted.

Bartok re-started his chronological catalog of his works twice. I don't see anything wrong with it. Just start a new numbering system. Personally, I think opus numbers are rather archaic these days but hey, whatever floats your boat.

on a side note, it's just so sad, that main three emotions (for music, and life?) are anger, sadness and happiness - basically it means that 2/3 of the music is really a dark thing. and you can get anger from sadness, and well, HTW happiness can come through all this?! this makes me sad and i'm going to write some angry music.

It can be done, but not without some "breaking the rules" so to speak. If you want a detailed tutorial, I'll provide one.