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Mine has to be Mahler's Symphony No. 4 Scherzo: (the video should start at 16:36)

This is a piece I wrote to depict the feeling of standing alone in an icy field at night. I live in a very sparcely populated area, and it can get quite cold here in the winter. The second half of the piece, after the short episode in the strings, is almost identical to the first half, but it feels lighter in character due to all the minor chords being turned major and vice versa. This was also the first piece I've written using MuseScore 4 and the new sounds are pretty good! They've definitely helped my music feel more "real". The piece is nominally in D major, but it very quickly modulates to D minor and then is further altered from there, until the string episode occurs and we end up back in D major, which is where the piece ends. Also, I've been listening to a lot of Bruckner lately, and there are traces of that influence in parts of this piece, I think. Thank y'all for listening! If you have any feedback I'd greatly appreciate it as it really helps me improve! Happy Holidays!!

Hi again! I have been much more inactive than I often am last week. I am very exhausted right now, as I just finished my fourth sonata and every time I finish one it seems that my brain decides to go on vacation, but I've seen and listened to a few works published during the days I've not been paying attention, which is actually nice as I will not need to dig :). If I fall asleep today, I'll make sure to begin checking some of them tomorrow. Before that, let me present you my 6th nocturne, which is kind of "close" to the prior one. It was dedicated to my good friend (and possibly future pianist) Juan de Dios. As always, I'll be glad to read anything, from a tiny comment to an in-depth review. I'll leave the PDF right here too: 53 - Nocturno Nº6.pdf I (as always) prefer not to comment anything more about the piece itself and leave you to it. If you are interested into some other works of mine, you can always check my "About" page in this forum, which again turned out to be a very epic tool to organize one's content. Thank you so much in advance! (sorry for so little :P) Kind regards, Daniel–Ømicrón.

Hi Henry, Thanks for the feedback. I will try and develop bars 78-93 further, though Ill probably do that after I start orchestrating. Thanks, Arjuna (Archie)

Hi @expert21, The version here is quite the same here as the latest version. I will really suggest you to develop bar 78-93! You can treat it as a trio or Valse II to extend it and give enough contrast to the opening section! I think the ending is better now! Henry

How come it's garbage? There's no garbage which is attractive! Nothing isn't worth developing! Even that quite common Diabelli theme can be developed to a gigantic Diabelli Variation, so why not? I love the dark and mysterious half diminshed and dissonant chord at the beginning. Then it becomes bright major key at 0:32. At round 1"32 there's more thematic material and I like it. I love the A minor ending! Throughout I feel like people suffering and hoping in the world, and I love the feeling! That's definitely worth developing! Henry

@Thatguy v2.0 - thank you so much for the comment, glad you enjoyed it! @Omicronrg9 - thank you for your feedback! I actually kept turning the organ down because I felt it was overpowering. On another listen though, you're right that especially in the finale the chorus becomes to strong. I'll probably just get rid of the last ff and leave the whole of the third verse as forte. (An aside - have you heard this wonderfully beautiful work for organ? https://youtu.be/84rEAAzU968) @PeterthePapercomPoser - so pleased you and your guests enjoyed it! Happy to hear it puts you in the Christmas mood! I haven't actually tested the Muse Sounds organ (I'm sure it's fantastic) as I always prefer to use this soundfont as it gives me complete freedom of registration rather than just a full/flute/reed selection. As Omicron said above, it doesn't balance terribly easily with Muse Sounds but that's something that could be ironed out with more mixing. Thank you all again for the comments!

It seems simple but it's definitely not easy to hold attention of an audience for 4 minutes! Great job here! I myself don't think it lamentable or melancholic. Rather I think it's contemplative with the echo of the electric piano. It may be a liitle bit sad, but just a little bit. It's more like reflecting what's done at the past or repenting for me. I really think it can be good therapeutic music though! Good job! Henry

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Thank you!! I’ve been experimenting with my orchestration on various pieces quite a bit, and I’ve found I really like this kind of spare, transparent texture, especially when I can then contrast it with a more concentrated, rich color. It works very nicely, in my opinion, and I’m working on a couple of other projects in a similar style. Thank you for taking the time to listen and leave a comment!

This is a very evocative and well written piece. Agree with Daniel that it seems to show some of the weaknesses of the new MuseScore (which I haven't used yet). In Section E, the attack and release times for the strings are much too short, and consequently sound artificial and unrealistic. Excellent score though, and the orchestration works really well.

I've never seen the movie, but looked up what it's about. It's probably advantageous for you to not have watched the movie, as all your thoughts and ideas for the music would be purely from you, without the actual film score subconsciously getting in the way. Very cool stuff, I really like the samples you used. You give a great atmosphere with the timbre, and I like some of the effects it has and that you did, like a pitch shift downward. Cool melody!

My favourite Scherzo would have to be Brahms' Scherzo in C Minor from the F-A-E Sonata:

Not technically a scherzo, but it's in a multiple of 3/4 time and it's fast, so I'm putting it here. Please enjoy!

For me it's the Scherzo from Beethoven's Harp Quartet, op.74: (starts at 18:03)

I love the two contrasting sections alternating each other: one is in solicitude, unsure, other on thick texture and so beautiful. I actually like all the sections with strings. I like how you depict icescape: It's huge but at the same time can be easily ruined. Henry

Oh it's weird but lovely to be complimented in other members' post!

Fresh work. I also think it's more effective writing the chord names.