No, in fact I would be surprised if any composer does not use motive development at all. There are some composers like Chopin, for whom the motive development is not so obvious and others like Beethoven and Bach for whom the motive/motives is very obvious. Even Debussy uses motives and develops them.
Thanks a lot, Bradley!
It isn't a live recording. It's MIDI + Piano Library Galaxy Steinway. I'm making my records using Cubase 5.
Do you mean for making score? I'm using Musescore for this.
I hope I understand you correctly and my answers will help you.
Beautiful. truly a fantastic pair of compositions. it's always a pleasure listening to your works. Question, is it a live recording of you playing? I can't quite tell. also what program did you use for the score? as in to get it onto YouTube? much appreciated
good performance. there are good ideas but you lose them with repetitive arpeggio and chromatic advances. in general, it will be more melodic if you base your theme on certain ideas. it looks more like etude this way, but it can be improved.
First, it's a bit pitchy. Second, solo violin goes a long way with reverb, which would massively help for this "relaxing" genre you're going for. Might be worth observing your registral treatment and opting for some compound melody... the Baroque definitely knew how to write slow stuff.