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Greetings. This is my very first post on the Young Composers community, and I would like to share one of my piano compositions that I had composed several weeks ago. This piano piece is a polonaise, which was written to imitate Frédéric Chopin's compositional style. Due to my busy schedule, I did not have the time to practice and record this piece. So instead, the audio file was exported from MuseScore 2.3.2. Any feedback would be appreciated, and I hope you will enjoy it! Carl Koh Wei Hao

I've been having the impression I was playing a bit too safe with my harmonies lately, so I've done what I used to do at the beginning: do a restricted writing exercise and re-harmonize or rethink simple folk melodies. You may recognize the third piece, its lyrics have been translated to English and Spanish, at least. There's also some trivial quote hidden in there. I include both the full orchestral score, and the initial piano sketch. Edit: At the present moment, this is just a study for a future, longer piece. I'm thinking of something like Grieg's Norwegian Dances, where folk tunes are fleshed out into large forms with "classical" development. As a curiosity, I also include pics of the first 2 folk dances. Both involve steel-reinforced wooden sticks, and are fast-paced and violent. Someone breaking a bone isn't that rare (the xylophone in the first basically parodies the bones breaking). I danced myself to the 2nd melody.

I composed this piece a few months ago but was struggling to play the two faster variations so I asked a friend to play and record the piece. He is a composer and retired professor from Toronto. He added ornamentation to the repeats in the recording and gave me great feedback to help polish the piece.

It is good! It reminds me Dvorak Slavonic Dances https://musescore.com/crono23/slavonic-dances-op-46-anton-n-dvo-k-slavonic-dances-op-46-no-5-sko-n-1878. Very expressivce work!

Aw, Luis. Not fair in Spanish. Lucky I studied Latin at school so I can get the gist but..... 😄

Hola, te comento en español porque me da la gana. Me gusta mucho tu trabajo. Por un lado creo que aún sigues explorando estilos e historias (cosa que nunca se acaba en la vida, la verdad). Tampoco sé tu "background", tu formación, si eres autodidacta o no... Pero se te ve una muy buena base sólida. Este trabajo es estupendo. Jeje, no sé si el Fum Fum Fum se puede entender del todo fuera de aquí, es una pieza genial. Un abrazo. Y sigue haciendo música xD!.... Luis.

Pretty clear you know what you're doing! There's nothing musical or score-wise to comment on. Can I deduce that from the short score, that you come up with a basic 'piano draft' first? To me, arranging is a particular skill within orchestration. The piece is most likeable, exciting, energetic. The pauses suggest a series of short tableaux as in a ballet. You draw attention to the occasional likeness between (earlier) Stravinsky ballets (Petroushka) and Bartok. (I'm not familiar with Ellington to be able to connect him). It could be considered 'light music' which is not to belittle it at all. In fact, for its lightness it's pretty demanding. Altogether brilliant and thanks for the full score aside from Youtube.

Charming and witty ..... I hear Resphighi calling .... as well as your other friends .... I am a fan~! It brought a smile to my face. 😊