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This piece is only made using chords. This is just an experiment. feedback expected.BTW Inspired from chopins e minor prelude.(op 28 no 4) https://flat.io/score/5ecfa73218c179027f492cdd-warning-cursed-audio

Another minuet, i used a deceptive cadence in the main theme which creates a small pause before the modulating sequence.

I agree. The melody is very nice. But the guitar becomes percussive.

His "Cantique de Jean Racine" is my favourite. A few other recommendations:

Hi, Oboe's melody is nice and works pretty well with the harmony, though I would consider more variation on the guitar accompaniment pattern. You can combine with some arpegiations on the chord, some sustained chords for 1 or 2 bars long or even a oboe solo can work fine. I feel there are too much notes on the accompaniment and without any variation gets a bit boring...I think with a third of the notes you have on the guitar it can work better. Also the ornamentation on the guitar I find it a bit excessive. The ones in the oboe are all right, since it's the solo instrument, but I think the guitar don't need any ornamentals there. Also the last 5 bars with the solo guitar sound to me totally disconnected from the previous material, and then modulating in the second bar from the end sounds quite weird. Is there any purpose on that? I would have finished in the bar where the oboe stops playing. I think with some ajustments it can be very nice 🙂

Those notations of woodwinds sound really good. Which VSTs did you use for them?

I havn't recorded any mp3's to post yet but I'll be working on that soon!

Hi there. I'm a total newbie to the website and I just listened to your piece on headphones. I must say that although mostly harmonic in nature there is definitely a melody leading this piece throughout. It sounds very passionate and the dynamic changes are very well placed. Despite the cello divisi it doesn't sound muddy at all!

This would sound fantastic if played live. Perhaps you could look into Fauré if you want expand on this subject, you'll surely find plenty of inspiration on his works.

Really good work, I really liked how you used the suspensions to create tension and release. This reminded me a lot of Nimrod from Enigma Variations. I wanted to ask technical question: I noticed m. 18-25 and m. 26-33 are almost identical, the only difference being the Seconds and the Violas delay all of their note changes by one beat. I was curious why you decided to do this? Was there a different contrapuntal effect you were using between the two statements? You have a lot of good independent lines between the different voices, but I noticed for the most part you left the bass to dotted half notes moving up a fourth or down a fifth. Was this your intention? I think giving the bass more melodic lines would add interest - a descending bass line is a good way to lead up to a climax. I enjoyed listening, thank you for sharing!