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Thank you for commenting papercomposer, I always appreciate your suggestions I've noticed you are probably the most prolific reviewer in the forum and your observations and suggestions are always very helpful. Thank you for the time you put into your reviews, I hope to learn more theory and help others as you do.

My opinion is this: you can do whatever you want with the theme as long as you explain what you did in writing along with your submission. So you took the theme, converted it to 15/8 time, and transposed every third note up by a diminished 5th? That's fine, the judges will just need to know that (and it probably wouldn't hurt to explain why you felt compelled to do that). Keep in mind that this is a competition, not a freestanding grade. Variations that are obscure, excessively complex, or otherwise unconvincing will not fare well against submissions that feature clear and easily-defined variations. Creativity is key, of course, but don't forget about limits; creativity has to have those, too.

I decided to make a calm and cozy melody because that's fun! 😄 Critique is very welcome!

I am really glad you liked it DarrenEngland! I tend to compose really fast when I have an idea but ideas do not come often 😭 I am really happy you think it was worth the wait! 😄 I am also glad to see you are being really prolific and uploading many new stuff these days! Thank youGlad you for commenting! Thank you so much PaperComposer! I am glad you pointed out about the Neapolitan chord! It is one of the things I had my doubts on. I actually did it without thinking about the underlying chords, voice leading wise, and then I realized it was the Neapolitan. I have read about (but not seen, honestly) many times that the Neapolitan can resolve directly to the I chord (Korsakov contemplates that option in his harmony teatrise) but, somehow what bothered me, was that I actually move from a V7 (a vii-halfdim) to the Neapolitan, which I think is not common. In any case I liked how it sounds so I left it there. I try to think of it as a tritone substitution for the V7, to justify the movement from V7 to Neapolitan. The parallel fifths, as you said, were so hidden that I tried to not care about them too much either 😅, specially because of the middle line moving chromatically. The held notes were written legatto but I would expect the players to breathe whenever they felt the need to. I just did not think it was necessary to state that explicitly on the score. Glad you liked it and thanks for commenting! 🙂

This is really great! I am not familiar with the trio sonata you mentioned but it sounds like you were quite inspired! You resolve the Neapolitan 6th chord in an unusual way. Normally the N6 (or bII) leads to a V but you resolve it directly to the tonic resulting in some (well hidden) parallel 5ths between the instruments. As far as breathing goes - you often have the flutes trade off between leading phrases so they have time to breathe in those sections. The other phrases you have are also easily fragmented into two bar parts which in between which the flute player(s) can breathe. The only part where the flutes might run out of breath is the long held notes - the only thing about that is that the held notes are usually in a high enough register of the instrument to not take up too much air. If the held note was in the lower range the flute player would run out of air much quicker although I don't know if a player would be able to hold those long notes without cutting some of them off to take a breath. I am not a flute player so I am just guessing here. Overall great job! Thanks for sharing.

I like it! The 3/4 bars are a good idea but I think what would have been even more interesting is if you had created a hemiola effect by having one of the hands stay in 6/8 while the other plays in 3/4. It's great as it is though. You create a nice contrast by having both hands suddenly in octaves before giving way to a solo right hand section. That's too bad about your software not allowing 1st and 2nd endings but I'm glad to see that you're doing what's necessary to get your intent across. Thanks for sharing!

Wow, what an absolute delight! I always look forward to your uploads and I really enjoyed this piece, well worth the wait. Your harmony and counterpoint is beyond my experience to comment but im sure others will give you detailed feedback. Nothing sounded odd or out of place to my ears but I get what you mean about the performers breath, I don't think they'd get blue lips from this. Well done Jorge!