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I'm really sorry I forgot to mention this challenge in this forum but anyways there are still 13 days left until the deadline day. Here you have the link to the counterpoint you will have to use your submission: The idea was to create a piece using one or both of the melodies my friend @Leonardo C. Núñez and me offer you. The description of the video explains the challenge a bit more, but if you have doubts please leave a comment. Once you have your music send it to my email ivanmusic1886@gmail.com Send a Musescore3 file, a score plus the audio or the video with the score. Thank you. ^^ Anyways, I hope you will have fun and sorry for not posting this before. The deadline will be the 18th of February but I can add a couple of days if I think it is necessary.

Honestly, the main vocal melody you have here is not bad. The way you have harmonized and orchestrated it could use some work and your choice of instrumentation doesn't help you make this sound filled out harmonically. You could have arranged this for SATB choir to make it sound fuller imo. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much for listening, @PaperComposer! And thanks for very thoughtful and useful comments. Agreed that the half notes seem syncopated and accents would help. I also changed the dynamics of the piano from mf to p and put an accent on the right hand half notes. Otherwise the syncopated-sounding doesn't really go away because the left hand plays a full chord on the second beat against single half notes of the right hand on first and third beat. And thanks for the kind words @BritishCompositeur! I'm not sure what do you mean by the tempo change--maybe the codette at the end of each section, where the clarinet starts playing semiquavers? The tempo change is very slight, there. The second theme is only slightly sostenuto (138 vs. the initial 144--the codette go back to 144), but maybe the change from quavers to semiquavers makes it seem too abrupt. I'll try and keep it to 138 and see how it sounds.

The constant glissando effect between notes in the violin is a little bit distracting. Other than that it is a nice little unpretentious piece! Thanks for sharing.

Nice piece, reminiscent of a Bach prelude tick-tocking away over a chord progression. Right hand figuration is catchy, though I would have liked to see more interplay between the 2 pianos, maybe one with the arpeggios going up instead of down, or taking turns to play the main figuration - there's potential there to start smaller and really build up over 3 minutes to your massive ending! (giving the second piano more to do as well)... but I enjoyed listening to it, I think your description of this old piece of yours is apt! Thanks for sharing

That was a fun piece, lots of intelligent touches. The syncopated rhythm in particular is infectious. The only thing that brought me out of the piece was the abrupt tempo change - I think I would keep it at the same tempo throughout, though I can see what you're going for! Thanks for posting

When listening to this sometimes my ear is fooled into a kind of rhythmic illusion that the first eighth note is a downbeat and the half notes in the piano seem syncopated. This happens throughout the piece it seems but I think it can be fixed by placing a slight accent on the beginning of each group of four eighth notes (accenting beats 1 and 3 which I think is how a real clarinetist would play those passages). This is really just the fault of a mechanical simulated performance that you have here I guess. Other than that I really enjoy the interplay between the clarinet and piano! Thanks for sharing!

Hello. My first opus is constitued of 2 Waltz. 1st Melancholic, 2nd Dramatic.