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This is a reconstruction of the first movement of Mozart’s Symphony 42. The manuscript was discovered under the sound board of an old harpsicord sent in for restoration. As is well known, Mozart was always hiding his manuscripts as he knew Salieri was always sniffing around nicking his tunes but this manuscript was thought lost. The manuscript appears to be a rough draft. There are inconsistencies in the musical style. A diary note left by Mozart tells us why. Approximately translated from German it reads: “After a harrowing half hour with my teetotal publisher I had lunch with Donizetti in Sleazy Ed’s Timetravel café next to Die Letzte Möglichkeit (Last Option) Bordello down Vienna High Street. He wants to borrow my coloratura and mistress for his new opera, the Magic Fruit. I held out until he offered me 100 bottles of Schnapps. But for the Apfelstrudel being too salty it was a pleasant lunch. We exchanged many ideas. I like his style so I may entertain some of his ideas in this new symphony. He’ll think I lifted them from his Lucia, a nice piece. A shame that we’re too early for films. He’d be rich. We both would. He also smells better than Brahms who has birds nesting in that horrid beard. Brahms is always complaining about how that ivory-tickler B. Toven left him redundant. Gaetano and I laughed over Brahms challenging me to billiards. The man really doesn’t know what to do with his balls. Gaetano has promised to send the recipe for Neapolitan Sixths which I can’t wait to add into the symphony.” ©Dr P Yano So here is the reconstruction. Performed by the Sinfonia Cacophonica of Burana.

A soundtrack born from a whistle in mind. I imagined it in a menu or a prologue of a game or fantasy film, let me know what you think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWgl-oEjZcY

Hi, pretty nice. It has development and rhythm.

^ This and very inconsistent tempo is very offputting! Melodies on the other hand sound fine.

Well, the "problem" here is, although it's short, it seems to have not a structure. It's like always going forward.

I think first you should try to compose a relatively simple piece with jazz harmony and try to create melodies as natural as possible. What you created seems to be somewhat consistent but it doesn't work for me, anyway good try and keep trying new stuff.

Oh, I'm definitely not telling you anything is wrong. I'm aware of the voice leading conventions of the style (although I may not like them sonically sometimes), and I'm not gonna harp on you on that. It's a combination of the harmonic rhythm and the idea behind the harmonic sequence that you start and don't finish (sequences, as I'm sure you know, are still a thing in this style). For most (big emphasis) of the music up until this point, a bar has been split into 2 and 2 harmonically, or left as 4 beats for the harmony (i.e. half cadences), so when you get to m. 14, the second measure of a fifths sequence and also the harmonic rhythm shifts to 3 and 1, it makes the V/ii (D in the bass) sound like an afterthought resulting in a bVII to ii progression which is not as common. Far be it from me to tell you it's wrong, but I can help by explaining why it sounded off to me.

Hello everyone! Recently I started reading Schoenberg's "Fundamentals of Musical Composition" and I decided to write several compositions of the simple forms from the book to try to apply what I learn. The first form was the minuet and this is the first minuet I composed. I composed it in a rather free way (I plan to compose a few stricter shorter minuets next, trying to make them simpler since I keep overcomplicating things when composing). The piece follows the minuet [:A:][:BA':] form with the following tonalities and number of measures: - A: 16 measures in G major - B: 20 measures in D major - A': 17 measures in G major Any feedback is appreciated. Thank you for listening! 🙂