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Okay, so today I was feeling pretty bad and for some reason I thought I needed to improvise something dark using the Dies Irae theme. I wanted to portray my feelings in the freest possible way but at the same time record it just in case something interesting would happen. This wasn't my first take, but I didn't do many tries either, so you can be sure that 97% of it is pure improvisation. Anyways, share your thoughts about this. I know it is pretty mediocre compared with good improvisations, but I'm still an amateur and I don't have tools that would be helpful like perfect pitch.

Hi everyone. This is a Sonata for Horn and Piano which I wrote recently. The description file explains what each movement is depicting. The recording has real musicians. Hope you enjoy it. Any constructive feedback is appreciated.

Lol np 🙂

You tagged the wrong person, I think you meant @Luis Hernández right?

Thanks a lot PaperComposer for your comments. I agree that there are some similarities when comparing the harmonics and the kind of rag-time like rhythm, which Debussy has used in his Golliwags Cakewalk. But he was actually not the composer who inspired me to write the piece. It was Nino Rota. I suppose that this was difficult to guess. You may be right that I over-complicated some of the harmonies. I have not composed something like this before, and I agree that my writing has to improve. Thank you again for your valuable feedback! Thank you very much for your reply. I am glad that you like the piece.

Like Papercomposer has said, it is a delightful little quaint piece you have here. Harmonically it appears and sounds fine. I particularly liked the ending of the B section, which provides a necessary contrast in texture to the preceding part. Keep it up!

I love this clam music. I listened it several times. 🥰

Big work! In the end, the Form is Theme and Variations. As I thought it is not easy to go out of that field. Anyway, this Form is good to make a variety of developments, which I thing you fulfill quite well. When one listens to the thole piece, there is also a sensation of climax with variation 10. The one in pentatonic scale sounds a bit out of the general style. But the inner development of each variation is rich. The fact you chose the tonalities step by step is a rightful method, however modulations are sudden and abrupt. Some sort of transition between parts would have been perfect. Regarding orchestration, you make better use of the strings. The piano seems to stay back particularly in long chordal passages, or when it doubles the violin or the cello. On the other hands, some times the piano is fully independent (variation 9). I don't know if the quadruple stops and so are possible, I hope... But a recurrent issue is the expression slurs in the strings (to write it or not?). The score is clean and everything in its place. Some high lines of the cello should have a change of key signature. The audio is good. The theme is recognizable in the variations and it plays a "glue" role. Congratulations!

A big work, some of which sounds eastern.