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Hello everyone! I have finally revised my Scherzo and Variations for Piano and Orchestra in MuseScore 3! I composed this piece on paper back around April when the corona-virus quarantine first hit. I imported the midi I made on my old machine into MuseScore and revised it and published a score (although admittedly - it's still not perfect). Thank you to everyone who showed an interest in this piece even with the poor quality of my old mp3 - you've given me the motivation I needed to do this revision! FYI: Each section of this piece is followed by a solo piano cadenza-like part. The Scherzo theme is in 6/8. Variation I is in 2/4. Variation II uses irregular meters and frequent meter changes. Variation III is a slow 3/4 version of the theme. Variation IV is in 2/4. Variation V is the finale and is a fast 2/4 version of the theme. It explores the triplet idea in fast runs up and down the keyboard. I didn't write this piece to be particularly difficult nor virtuosic but the final variation is the most difficult and there are moments in the other variations that are difficult. I welcome your criticisms, feedback or observations! I personally think that Variation IV is the weakest harmonically and the contra-bassoon part is a little boring. Let me know what you think though and thanks for listening! For the old, lower quality version of this piece go here:

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.

Really good melody and harmonies, but maybe your piece needs some rhythmic variations.

Good evening everyone! I'm excited to present a new piece I have been working on for the last month or so: Scherzo for Orchestra. I deliberately wrote this fairly quickly, with the intent to write something fun, conventional, and maybe even a little whimsical. I'm interested in any and all constructive feedback. I had a few goals in mind as I composed this, feel free to critique my success or failure on these: Write something a little more informal and accessible, with catchy, memorable themes. Start with a very simple idea, and build the entire piece off of it. The four bar opening phrase in the 2nd violins popped into my head one day, so I tried to build the entire piece off of this motive and transformations of this motive. Practice having multiple contrapuntal lines. Some details on this are below. Write something that would work as a middle movement of a larger work, such as a symphony. Write something under 10 minutes, since I might decide to enter it into a competition and a lot of competitions have a 10 minute time limit. The piece is loosely structured in a three-part rondo form (ABACABA). (0:00 - 1:32) - A Theme - A very quick staccato theme in C# minor. I based this on the idea of a fugue, with each voice entering at different scale degrees, before they all come together to cadence. I'm sure I broke a few rules on the counterpoint, but it got the job done. The section ends on the V (G# minor) (1:32 - 2:21) - B Theme - A soaring theme in E major, then restated in Db major. Here I tried to have descending chromatic lines to complement the ascending melody. (2:21 - 3:04) - A Theme - Restatement of the second half of the A Theme, this time ending on I (C# minor) (3:04 - 6:31) - C Theme - A waltz in D major that begins very timid, gradually gains confidence, and goes out with a bang. (6:31 - 8:01) - A Theme - Restatement of the A Theme, this time in D minor, with the orchestration modified slightly. I threw in a couple unprepared modulations up a half step, to Eb minor and E minor. As a result I may have broken a "rule" here since I ended the section on B minor (which is not the V of D minor, the key I eventually return to). (8:01 - 8:49) - B Theme - Restatement of the B Theme, this time in Db major and Bb major. (8:49 - 9:37) - A Theme - The second half of the A Theme again, eventually returning to D minor to end the piece. As usual, I have an onslaught of questions I would like specific feedback on. Feel free to answer as many or as few as you wish: What effect does the music have on you? Does in conjure up an image? Or an emotional feeling? Does it tell you a story? This can be the piece as a whole, or a specific part or parts. What was your favorite part? What was your least favorite part? Do you have any comments or critiques on technique, e.g. harmony, melody writing, counterpoint, orchestration, voice-leading, etc.? How do you feel about the overall form? Is it effective? Do any of the parts seem impractical to you? It's a pretty fast piece with a lot of technique, so I'm curious if some of the parts are impractical. I don't mind them being difficult, I would only be concerned if they are borderline impossible. Do you have any comments of the quality of the performance in the audio file? I really want this to be a decent representation of how the piece would sound if it were performed live, since it is unlikely it ever will be. Feel free to put your "conductor hat" on and critique the "orchestra". I have included a score and welcome any constructive feedback on its presentation. And if you're like me it's a lot more fun to follow along with the score. Are there any composers this reminds you of, that I might enjoy listening to? Sound libraries: Spitfire Symphonic Orchestra and Spitfire Percussion VSL Trumpet (only for some of the lyrical trumpet melodies) VSL Violins (only to layer with the violins in Spitfire) Thanks for listening, I hope you enjoy! If you liked something I did and want me to explain how I did it, feel free to ask as well. -gmm

Hi @PeterthePapercomPoser, I greatly enjoy this light-hearted piece! You theme is itself varied with the modulations and the contrast of solo and tutti. That provides much materials for later variation! Var. 1 offers slight variation to the theme which is great for the overall structure of the piece since it can remind you what the theme is like more. I love variation 2 with its alternating meter as rhythm usage! Very broad var. 3 after the funny var.2. Using the oboe for sure gives some pastoral sense to it! The augurs of piccolo in var.4 is great, and with the shorter 2/4 time signature the music is more lively here. I love the polyrhythm in b.226! Var.5 is so humorous with the chromatic and minor flavour. It even reminds me of Gershwin or Nino Rota here with some of the magical sound, and the ending is funny and satisfying to this overall light hearted and cheerful piece! I don't have anything to say regarding counterpoint or orchestration since they are always great. The flat for the trill in b.43 should be put above the "tr" sign to denote the Bb, but I am sure it's the MuseScore issue! I really hope the pause between the variations can be reduced though! Those pauses do put me off a little bit with how flowing the music is! Thanks for sharing and I will keep listening and reviewing your music here if I have time!! Henry

Hello @Carl Koh Wei Hao I appreciate very much your words and I am glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for your feedback, Claudio

This guy is pretty cool too https://www.youtube.com/@SonataSecrets