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Hi! First post with my new account. I posted a few little ditties here around 6 years ago, but someone ripped me a new asshole and decided to take some rest. I see Luderart and Austenite are still here (edit: this could be misunderstood: these weren't the ones that tore my work apart, and after all, it deserved to be criticized). ... Anyway as an introduction, I'd like to share one of my most cherished compositions, my Symphony. This was my first original orchestral work (i.e. not an arrangement). I wrote this in one month in 2019, even though some basic ideas date from many years before. It was an agonic month, since I could barely think about anything else. I've refined the orchestration a bit since then. I'm self-taught but I've gotten feedback in a few spots by pros, and I've also implemented new things I've learned on my own. If you play an instrument and see some red flag, don't hesitate to tell me! This was written with an overall early-20th-century aesthetic in mind, combined with very strong jazz influences. The first movement's in sonata form with an introduction, then follows a somewhat grotesque waltz (in lieu of a scherzo), then a dreamy slow movement, and finally some sort of pseudo-ragtime in rondo form. Score here Video (audio+score) here I've made some minor tweaks to the score linked here after making the video, but you won't be able to hear the difference.

hello everyone, I am back, this is my new piece in Japanese traditional style, hope you like it. instrument: koto & piano koto is a kind of picking string instrument the video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1rA411s71K/

Hi all! This is my new sad, dramatic classical piano composition in c minor. It is slightly inspired by composition of composers of the romantic era. The original purpose of this piece was to practise harmony, i.e. chord alterations, 7th- & 9th-chords and modulation, but it eventually ended up being a short nocturne- or prelude-like piece. It should be played with a good portion of pedal-use, especially in part A, in order to express a more "dream-like" feeling of the main "doubtful" melody. The structure of this piece is: A - A' - B1 - B2 - C - A - A' A: main theme in c minor A': a more persuasive version of A with a modulation to C Major B1: romantic part in C Major B2: romantic part in D flat Major 😄 a dramatic transition back to c minor Can this piece be called a nocturne? If not, which form would you suggest? Thank you for listening! Feel free to comment 🙂 K.R. Alex

I have a feeling there might be lots of Mahler posts in this topic but my personal favorite:

A short mellow piano tune. :3

Thanks Thank you, too! 😃The harp part is perhaps the one I've tweaked the most, precisely in terms of enharmonics. I'm not claiming it no impossible bits (because I'm very prone to slips), but I've tried really hard to have no more than 1 pedal change per beat and per foot (and preferably both feet in the same direction). I started to worry less about that after seeing the harp parts of some Mahler and of Strauss's Dance of the 7 Veils, though lmao

Great piece! The waltz movement reminds me of "La Valse" by Ravel and the last movement gives me Leonard Bernstein vibes. I wish I had more time to look at the score in detail to maybe give more critical feedback - from what little I've seen though I have to ask whether the enharmonics that you've used in the harp part are really streamlined to help the harp player most easily play the part? Great job though - I enjoyed it thoroughly!

Wonderful music.

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it. 😄

a waltz I composed

It starts very ordinary but soon grows into quite an expressive and nostalgic piece! It's very curious that despite the fact that it's major I feel like this is a sad piece. I feel like it loses some steam at around the 2 minute mark where you start just playing chords in preparation of returning to the main theme. I think this is one of those pieces where it wasn't so very important to end in the same key that you started so you could have recapitulated the main theme in a higher key, giving it a sort of burst of emotion when the new key comes in (although now that I listen again I can hear that you do play the main theme in another key - maybe you could introduce a contrasting theme there and save the key change for the true recap? - just a suggestion). I enjoyed the rich harmonies and listening to this multiple times. Great job!