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Greetings. This is my second post on the Young Composers community, and I would like to present my recent piano composition. This piano piece is a short étude in the key of G sharp minor, a study for developing right-hand dexterity. Besides, this composition was an attempt to write a perpetuum mobile, consisting of notes of equal length played rapidly. Let me know what you think about this piece. I hope you will enjoy it! Carl Koh Wei Hao P.S. The audio was generated in MuseScore 2.3.2.

Another nocturne. Currently working on the score Nocturne in D Flat Major .mp3

Hello! I'm new here, thought I'd add some thoughts... As a violinist, technically the writing is good, all playable. The only thing is, as a composer, my opinion is that the piece lacks strength melodically. I think it would be important for you to study cadences (how to end phrases) in scores by the great composers, and just generally which steps of the scale like to resolve to which notes (if that makes sense??), to develop an elegance of movement and phrasing which sounds more refined. I will be brutally honest - this piece sounds a bit like a technical exercise with lots of scales and arpeggios, but weak thematically, didn't personally find any memorable melodies to it. Apologies if I have been harsh in my critique! Regards, Zeb.

A truly original compostation from me.

True, however this exercise had absolute beginners in mind such as Dailyduo, he wrote the, 'three pieces in the style of Beethoven', in the piano forum. Beginning with a two bar question and a two bar answer is a good place to start in melody writing. In fact its a good exercise in composition fluency and musical imagination to see how many answers you can compose to a single question. From there you can move on to 4 bar antecedent and 4 bar continuation phrase that make up the 8 bars of the A section of a minuet. Over Mozart's career he wrote around 340 minuets, they are a staple of the classical style and its from this form that Mozart learnt the basics and the form he taught his students. Its the form I began with and continue to use to learn the basics. You can introduce schema theory, 2 and 3 voice harmony, keyboard composition technique and other topics that help in composing minuets authentic to the style. In time it can lead to a beginning in improvising in the classical style.