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Thanks for listening! I see what you mean about the flute in the second movement. I think there are spots where one could take a breath and if necessary omit a sixteenth note; perhaps I should put breath marks in the score. Yes, minuets are often much faster than this, but I wanted to use this minuet-like movement as a slow movement. Perhaps it would have been better to have had a different slow movement and use the quasi minuet, at a faster tempo, as the finale.

To get from your head to a score? Just experience and practice really. It takes time. But if you're good at sight reading you should be able to "reverse sight-read" - think of a tune and know how it'll look on paper/stave. Practice sight reading things from the style you'd like to compose in. Study scores or instances (such as game-tracks) of the sort you like, to learn how they work. Developing your own voice/style will come as you move on. Some basic CPP theory helps because it'll give you a sense of how progressions work. Learn the basics of the piano where you can see chords actually laid out and experiment with changing them. As you develop an 'ear' you'll get to know how individual parts move around. (but as a personal opinion, don't get too bogged down with theory, its nomenclature, its rules - that's unless you want to approach composing as a technocrat! ..well, you'll always be involved technically to an extent but don't let it kill off your spontaneity. I dropped out of formal musical education because it was stripping composing of its creativity.) Other than that - perform. You have a band. Compose for it. And always be self-critical. My tuppence-worth.

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This is a very affecting mood that you've put together here with some rich harmonies! It moves along quite slowly which makes it sound pensive and dramatic. The instrumentation is quite good with a touch of choir. I love the B major 6/4 ending but it seems sudden and like the piece could go on much longer. It was just getting started. Thanks for sharing!

After reading the score program notes in more detail I understand that now - at first I was under the impression that she was just a lepidopterist.

Hello everyone, Again, it's been a while since I have posted anything, and I figured I might as well post something I'm currently working on, my Piano Quartet no. 2. The complete work is almost done, and will hopefully be out soon. The performance is at the Ameropa International Chamber Music Summer School in Prague, Czech Republic. As usual, I'm playing the piano part. I apologize about the poor quality of the recording. I hope you all enjoy, and happy holidays, everyone! 🙂