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Hi everyone! A few weeks ago an ambulance passed by the street where I live, and I was kind of inspired by the "sound" of its siren (if you are curious about how italian ambulances sound, I leave here a link: https://youtu.be/V_cBeUij0Jk). I tried to make something more graceful and joyful out of it, and I came up with a waltz. I - logically - called it "The Ambulance waltz" (or Waltz no. 118, as the italian emergency number). The first bar is the exposition of the "source", which is a 6th interval: it is playable ad lib. like a "cadenza" (and as such there's no time references). Then, in the first section you'll hear the main theme in Cmaj, based on the same 6th interval. The modulating passage also comes from the same idea, and it brings to the second section: a variation of the main theme where the 6th interval is presented first inverted, and then in minor (the expressive mark is "crying, as a lamentation"). The third section is basically the reprise of the main theme, even though with some variations and, finally, there's a short and calm coda ending the piece. Here there are the sheet music and a recording of me playing it (please forgive me fot the mistakes and the variations I made from the sheet). Hope you'll like it! And obv, tell me what you think and if you've got any suggestion to make it better. Thanks!

Hmm that is true. If I were in your situation, I would have notated down a crescendo or dim. over just that single note and maybe play around with and increase the velocity change in the crescendo or diminuendo. However, both methods are not a great workaround and hence when I was still using Musescore I tended to avoid sharp hairpins over a single note because of this. The paid software, such as Dorico (which I've switched to now) and Sibelius, both have hairpins so you could try looking to upgrade your software if this is a really pressing issue.

Olov, You were looking for a title. Unfortunately, I don't know Stockholm, but a quick look on Google Maps would suggest: "Walking beside the water in Djurgården" or some such beautiful place. In your music, I can smell the salty, sea air, but there is also a gentle feeling which evokes the lovely grass and trees of one your beautiful parks. I feel Sweden or the Swedish language deserves to be in the title because there is definitely a Scandinavian flavour in there.

So far as the ending goes, yes, abrupt. It neither ends on a cadence nor just fades out, just stops - trailing off on that very quiet sound. I suppose this is a perennial problem of this genre - how does one end a piece to offer it as a stand-alone piece. The production/balance seems pretty good except at the end - I bet a few of your tracks were touching or exceeding the red line! .

You're litterally exaggerating lol 🙂 Thanks a lot man

Very beautiful melody and nice piano....

Hmm have you tried using invisible accents? The accents (with tenuto) increase the dynamics for a particular note temporarily for Musescore so you could use that? But it does come with its own side effects like sounding too forceful. It appears that this is an issue with most notation software, note just Musescore, as sudden cresc. and dim. are normally not well articulated. The other option is to put in an invisible dynamic marking on that note and put another invisible dynamic marking on the next note with invisible crescendos and diminuendos between