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Hello! Here is my submission for the Secret Santa composing event organized by @Jean Szulc and @Left Unexplained. It's titled "Left Unspoken," it's scored for piano trio, and it was inspired by my Secret Santa topic: the word mamihlapinatapei, from @TheCluelessClariney. In their own words: My piece comes in fairly short at just under 4:00. It is structured as a simple A-B-A format, with one more contemporary-sounding section sandwiched between two more CPE-sounding sections. I hope the theme comes across in the interplay between the violin and cello, particularly at the end. Made with MuseScore 3. As always, all criticisms and suggestions are welcome. Thanks for listening. 🙂

Here is my piece for the Secret Santa event. I finished it. And very quickly too. EDIT: @Left Unexplained said that I had to include the topic that I got as well as my piece, so here is the topic I got:

Here's mine. Warning, it's "modern" and I normally allow my things to ferment for at least a month before finalising so it'll be rougher at the edges than I'd like. The brief was: = = = = = = = = "In a world stricken with climate change, the government deteriorates until their true motives become clear, to look out for the most wealthy Americans. A young man on the side of the fortunate finally wakes up to the injustice he was blind to when he meets a female laborer for his father’s company and sees for himself the horrors of living in an unlivable world with no money. Something has to change, but there are no easy solutions on a planet running a fever. Will he sacrifice everything to be with a lowly laborer and fight for justice or will he return to an insulated life and assume the familial role of oppressor?" = = = = = = = = This is of course the synopsis for a One Act Opera. (Unfortunately, my favourite librettist is in lockdown and the instant opera machine I bought from Rossini needs a refill of quavers - well, he did give it some heavy use - so this "extract" had to do. j/k). This is the interlude between penultimate and closing scenes, mainly a dialog between the lead characters overcoming acerbic differences and perhaps...just perhaps reaching a reconciliation as the harmony increasingly relies on consonances. [EDIT] When I tried to load the piece direct it set up the MP3 but also allowed a link back to my computer. Not on - oh no no no! So I lodged it in Soundcloud Here it is https://soundcloud.com/acitore/santa-comp

Hello all, Here is my latest piece. It's a jazz piece, and the first thing a have written in that genre (besides 12-bar blues melodies). It's in a rough ABAB form, with melodies on the tenor sax and muted trombone. I heard the muted trombone being used to carry a jazz melody in a concert, and I love the sound. On the second B section, the tenor sax joins the trombone with a countermelody. Apologies for the trombone patch - out of the soundfonts I have on Musescore, there is no muted trombone. We can make do with a muted trumpet! (If anyone knows of any free soundfonts that have this, then please share them below!) I hope you enjoy this piece.