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Greetings everybody here! The following is another piece of work in the same set as the previous work: Miroirs et Fleur et de Lune. This work is entitled as Jeux, trying to picture a game of light and dark, switching from dissonance to finally a pentatonic scale, a joy atmosphere at D major. This work is finished in a rush, so... there might be a lot of flaws lol, so please comment on my work to help it become better 😀 Imago_III_V_Jeux.mp3

It's just the dregs of humanity / Neo-Marxists whining about standards existing and wanting to do away with any sort of hierarchy as means of coping with their own inferiority as usual. Nothing new, nothing really to see here. This guy, right off the bat is talking about "muh class divisions" and using communist imagery toward the middle. I didn't watch this whole snoozefest either, but when you go to the middle of the video, you really see where he gets to the meat of his "point" (that's been rehashed for decades). "The belief that there are naturally superior people..." There are. This is of course what the author seeks to "dismantle". Nobody and nothing is ever genuinely better than something else; that quality doesn't exist. We need to fix this "inequality" of people understanding the obvious reality in front of their eyes and ears that some people are better than they are at any given thing and not all of us can reach their skill for ourselves. I will say that, I do think the "elitism" in the sense that the idea that all "Pop" music is automatically inferior because it is "pop" or because it doesn't have guitars is dumb, but that's not what he's on about. Anyway, Beethoven or Tchaikovsky aren't better than Schoenberg or Lil' Wayne because of some bourgeoisie oppression or whatever tf. They're better because their music is better, and this becomes immediately apparent upon listening to it.

Hi everybody! I'm back with another piece of choral music! This time I took three poems by Matthew Cory (Poetictennis over at poetrycircle.com) and set them to music. I don't have as much experience with SATB as I do TTBB (since I can just record the TTBB parts myself), but now I love writing for SATB. If you know any sopranos or altos who would like to record, message me! The piece starts with his "Cinquain": beneath her veil of smiles and charms are vestiges of vows no longer meaningful, but missed For this movement, I really wanted to paint the words since they were so strong. It starts with the Sopranos singing "beneath" and the altos filling in to create a feeling of looking up at the heavens. Next, I used a very thick cluster chord on the word "veil" to really make it seem as though we were passing through a veil to the word "smiles" which is somewhat resolved. The second time through those lines, I decided to change the tonality when we got to "smiles" to imply the falseness. It ends in a rather simple way. Movement two is his "Widowers": A sullen bluebird wails a hymn Alone atop a white capped limb While midst the sunlit drifts of snow, Its mate lies hushed, interred below. Behind the scene, I see your stone And live your death again; I moan, Besieged by latent misery, Then join the songster’s elegy. This is a simple but beautiful poem, so I wanted to write in in a simple way, almost like a very sad lullaby. The line "While midst the sunlit drifts of snow" is one of the most beautiful I've ever seen written, so I highlighted it with lush chords. Finally, we end with his "Coronation": At dawn, winged trumpeters present His majesty as eyes turn east And gaze upon his grand ascent To heaven’s throne. A royal feast Of scenic views illuminate When golden scepters strafe the earth, While evening’s minions hibernate And morning celebrates rebirth. In performance, there would be a pregnant pause between Widowers and Coronation. The beginning of the piece is meant to actually portray "at dawn" with a musical "painting" of a sunrise. I also use word painting with "his grand ascent" with ascending chords. I also tried to represent glowing light during the word "illuminate". Finally, I try to evoke a dreamlike sleep sound with the chord in the word "hibernate". Thanks for listening. I'm very excited to hear your feedback! ThreePoems.pdf

tl; dw Criticizing elitism via rambling about Confucius, Mozart, Mao and Taylor Swift in an hour-long video essay reaches layers of irony deemed impossible before.

It really feels like a comfort to listen to. The rhythm is consistent yet varied enough. The 32th are a nice ornamentation rhytmically and melodically (at a certain place you make them into 16th which is a simple yet clever variation). Why did you choose for this title? I can only hear for myself a bit of a problem with the end. Maybe this is just subjective but to strike the chord twice doesn't feel like a conclusive end to me. I don't have a good solution tho. Thanks for sharing, it was an enjoyment to listen to.

Dude you're phenominal. I wasn't expecting such a clean and detailed score. I haven't heard a piano piece on here that's captivated my attention as well as this did for such a long time; you've got enormous talent! I wish I could critique more on playability but this is certainly above my grade. I love what you did with the impressionistic language. Do you study music? Seems like you have a lot to offer here, I'd love to hear your thoughts on others' music. I'll certainly come back to this piece for repeated listens, and it's one I think I could learn a lot from as far as what the piano is capable of. Well done!