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Well, I finally finished this piece. This is the second and last work of the 2 poems. I hope you enjoy!

Hello guys. I am working in this group of two musical poems. Listening to a lot of Scriabin and Rachmaninoff is helping me to discover a new world. I must warn I am very busy right now with my interpretation classes and I barely have time to compose, so the second one will take more time.

Thanks everyone for your submissions! The competition is now CLOSED to further entries! Check out the results and awards here: Please check out our "From Bits to Bangers" Competition Satisfaction Survey: Please check out the entries in the submissions thread: To vote for your favorite submissions go to the popular voting polls thread: Starting January, 28th, 2023 and running until March, 26th, 2023 (EDIT: the competition has been extended until April 2nd, 2023) Young Composers Forum invites you to participate in another new and unique music composition competition hosted by @Tónskáld, @PeterthePapercomPoser, @Thatguy v2.0, @Omicronrg9, @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, and @chopin, all of whom will also judge the competition. In this competition you are given a choice of orchestrating, arranging, re-harmonizing, quoting or writing variations on one of 5 given 8-bit music tracks from old video games which you must listen to in order to extract the musical material relevant to you. The entries will be judged on a scale of 0 - 8 in 8 relevant categories: Pick your favorite 8-bit track and transform it in as many ways as you see fit! Make it into a fully fledged composition according to your skills and strengths! Please note that the judges will give you more points the more elements of your composition are original and not simply copied from the relevant 8-bit track. However, the judges should be able to recognize at some point that your composition is derived in some way from the relevant 8-bit track. Feel free to highlight for the listener where in your score you used the relevant 8-bit tracks' theme by showing them in the pdf, mentioning measure numbers, or giving them timestamps from your mp3. Because there were only 9 submissions, the patrons of the competition have decided to give out a $100 1st place prize only. In order to compete: Your composition must not exceed 10 minutes of music Your composition must include an element of the one relevant 8-bit track of your choosing Any instrumentation or choice of ensemble is allowed No age limit One submission per participant Mp3 submission and score/sheet music pdf required $100 1st prize only Deadline: March 26th, 2023 (extended to April 2nd, 2023) Submissions are to be sent to @PeterthePapercomPoser through direct message with the title of the composition as the subject line. He will post the submissions anonymously in a special contest thread for everyone to listen to and consider. Besides attaching a pdf score (without your name in it) and mp3 rendition of your music consider also including a description of your piece for the judges, fellow competitors and young composers at large to better understand your music. Which 8-bit track did you choose to transform "From Bits to Bangers"? Current Entrants: (reply to this thread in order to enter) @sswave @Left Unexplained @WowBroThatWasReallyEdgy @Ferrum @Setthavat @Nico Fantasy @ComposaBoi @Grey Ross @skvlkin @AlexeySavelyev @DanielCComposer @EthaTrue @MrMule96 @Eickso @bkho @luderart @QRose @telliur Choose which of these tracks you would like to transform "From Bits to Bangers" using any means available at your disposal: (for best results please listen on your computer rather than a phone) If the mp3 player below doesn't work for some reason you can find the 5 8-bit tracks here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1eVpdbmW5CXAJ73XRO9IugDFY5oJYGhDn?usp=sharing

Hi friends, This is an example of what I want to do in my new blog. In this little piece, there is an intertwined work of schemata and rhetoric figures. I have spoken previously about schemata, and they are notated at the bottom of the systems. Now, I have added some rhetoric figures, that will be explained in detail in the blog. Anaphora is the repetition of a structure at the beginning of several phrases. Hyperbaton is a change in the order of the notes. Chiasmus is the mirrored repetition of a motive or phrase. Pleonasm is the addition of "superfluous" elements. Anadiplosis is the repetition of a part which was the end of a phrase in the beginning of a the next. Epizeuxis is the repetition of something in the middle of a phrase Concatenation and gradation are similar to climax-anticlimax. Pathopoeia is the expression of an idea with chromaticism. [with time, I will translate into English the entries about schemata] Let me say that writing music this way is an adventure. Funny and instructive. And, surely, is the essence of baroque-galant music. And there's more to say: this is nothing "mechanical". When you get familiar with the process, it becomes natural, as it happens when you write in the romanticism style or dodecaphonic of whatever. In the end, this devices had a purpose: to convey emotions. Sorry for the engraving it's not the best, but I wanted to keep the phrases together.

Hi @ClaudioCamacho, I am looking foward to this and finally you finish this! That's a great miniature piece well suited as prelude. Very idiomatic piano writing and to the late romantic style with that breadth, texture and harmony. Nice job! I guess it's played by yourself? The rubato is really great and the pacing is perfect. You can use A# for the B flat in b.8 to prevent that frequent change of accidental. I have just think of a piano concerto by @Camfrtt since his work is inspired by Rachmaninoff: You can check these out if you are interested! Thanks for sharing! Henry

Just registered to participate :)

Another dynamics sample, m433-452:

Hi @Fugax Contrapunctus, Apart from b. 15 of the fugue which maybe unplayable for harpsichord, I enjoy both the prelude and fugue. I do think it's more chromatic than your previous works even though they are already quite chromatic. Thanks for sharing and hope victims' family can recover well after their loss. Henry

I think for a Baroque style piece, modulations can be added more to push the motion more. I will also change key for a middle section probably! It really depends what you want to present! For example in Quinn's piece he let all the instruments appear but only for a moment.

Thanks man, I'm glad you enjoyed it! Yes I agree with you on the ending, it is a little abrupt. I think what I might do in the future is take @Thatguy v2.0's advice and expand this into a collection of several short movements. That way what this movement lack's in finality would be compensated with better resolution in the other movements. Thanks for listening! Oh no I've been found out! At least you know where to go if you ever need fiber supplements... Thanks for listening, I'm glad you enjoyed it. I would like to spend more time writing shorter pieces like this, they are fun and good practice for coming up with music quickly.