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The score is just epic, 🤠. What a rodeo of a prelude! Truly unexpected, truly enjoyed. Yeah poor Arnold, when you win the game of harmony the feeling of emptiness is just unbearable, or it must be cause I am nowhere near that. He was mathematically wrong though. Old forms and ideas would not be exhausted in a humanly comprehensible time, but it's perhaps our limitations in the complexity of these old forms that keep constraining us and led some to do very strange stuff that one may like or not, like this prelude of Vince and much more daring (and potentially harmful to the eye and ear) stuff. Coming back to the topic, I loved the initial cadenza and the overall mood of the entire piece. It's fresh, but a bit dense on the low register. It's animated, but not sure if after this we can still say there pieces were meant to be easy. I will let our pianist of preference and reference @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu to judge this. A slow theme of this kind would be very welcome if you ask me. In summary, one of my favourites, though I may make a full detour once you publish them all in order to make a veredict. Kind regards!!

It's that time again. I may have gotten weird with the score.

Short original piano composition called "Please!". It is my first composition after a break of 2 years. It is inspired by the music of composers of the romantic era. Another big inspiration was the painting "Lamia" by John Waterhouse. It has the following structure: A - B - C - A' A : Main theme in C Major B : Secondary theme in d sharp minor C : Transition from B to A' in c minor A' : Dramatic variation of A in C Major Thank you for listening! Feel free to comment 🙂

Wow - action? It's action all right! Without studying the score in detail, the balance seemed fine. I couldn't see any immediate technical issue with the instrumentation. I'm cautious about giving the double basses an independent part because they can muddy the harmony easily at a realistic mf to ff dynamic but as they're playing detaché throughout it adds to the percussive effect of the lower strings. As Henry says, the piece stands by itself but would probably be better as a movement in a suite or symphonic work. As for development it's hardly long enough to develop anything - but it contains material that could be developed into a longer work. However, it would need something contrasting - not slower, keeping up the same pulse but perhaps legato in the melody part. A good example of a scherzo that in someway matches your piece (while sounding nothing like it) is the scherzo of Shostakovich's 10th symphony (listen to the Karajan reading that goes at a helluva crack! if you're of a mind)). It's an excellent effort.

@Omicronrg9, I still remember this, and it's in the back of my mind as I continue to write these: "BEWARE, for I began the same way "I want to make them easy" with my nocturnes and it surely didn't last long, lol. I also did plan to do like 10 or something at the beginning, BEWARE of that too." Well, the number will be 12 for sure, but I agree this one seemed like the hardest. I've toned it back a bit for the next two, but you're right, it's very easy to make them more difficult as I go At any rate, thanks for checking this out. The rootin' tootin' score was an after thought to the music, but I'm glad you found it entertaining. It was a bit heavy in the lower register for the second half, I wanted some wild bar room brawl type of vibe. Hopefully that came across okay. 😄 P.S. POST MORE MUSIC 😮 You are the resident piano aficionado! Always bug you with piano playability questions 😄

Well I'll judge more on this when I start playing this piece since playing is quite different from looking at the score. But in the meantime I'm still on Vince's 4th prelude so you have to wait haha! Henry

A bit late already, but welcome to the forums. Some questions if you don't mind: • What software do you use for composing? The style of the score is curious. I would suggest you to download Musescore 4 or 3 if you want a better sound. • What would you say it's the best of these two pieces you brought to us? What's the one you personally prefer? As Henry said, please feel free to share it in the forums whenever you please. Don't hesitate to ask if you need help/assistance on any of those matters. Feel free to comment on anyone's pieces too, even if you feel you cannot provide accurate feedback, most users would thank you for your words ^^. Kind regards, Daniel–Ømicrón.

Hi, sir. I would have thought that since the author's name here is "Symphonic" perhaps it was just referring to a work of his. Just read the comment made in regards of that though, haha. • Do you have a score of this? In my honest opinion, I am still in minute 7 but all I'm listening sounds pretty much CONVINCING. You have managed to make a simple small motive entertaining enough to last quite a while, and the way you develop and branch off from that is done quite decently in my opinion. I can tell that at least in my case I will not easily forget this motive. I kinda like this too. Minute 15. Sir, you must have a score of this. I really hope you do. I thought I just finished your second part. The third one starts powerfully, but ends in an abrupt pause that I'm not sure whether it convinced me or not. The section that continues with a different structural motif doesn't convince me that much. I would say it needs some polishing overall. By 21:30 it has returned tangentially to the backbone motive. By min 29, I'm completely absorbed, wondering why some passages still fit to me even while they consist basically on repetitions of the same chord. You walk dangerously but masterfully in that line between what I'd consider excessive repetition and abundant use of certain stuff. It's impressive how you managed to keep the tension all the way to the end and how you did solve everything. I'm confused, and amazed somehow. I do encourage you to post more here, seen that you have a quite good amount of music of your craft to show. I would gladly invite you to have a look at other users' posts too, since they probably want to comment their pieces or see others' points of. In any case, congratulations for this, and thanks, since it was really a pleasure to listen to this symphonic sonata. Kind regards, Daniel–Ømicrón.

That is not correct. Slurs for strings are indicating if notes should be played on one bow and you should definitely indicate that to the player. Pretty often composers also indicate up-bow, or down-bow as well so look into that.

Lovely piece. The quality of the piano samples are spot on, very soft and ethereal as your music intends to portray. I'm curious about the 6/8 time. To me it felt 3/4, but was just curious of your thought on that. I'm always excited to hear new music from you, you never disappoint! Great piece here, thanks for sharing.

"Adventure. is a large and energetic orchestral piece that takes you through the eye of passionate searchers, who wander deep in a forest in search of something that they believe are essential to their community. Through many obstacles and difficult paths, these passionate searchers scramble and traverse the extreme conditions of the woods. In the end, their work pay off as what they had found is beyond what they had expected." Howdee everybody! This is my submission for the "From Bits to Bangers" competition! I...kinda just don't know what to say other than to thank you the judges and the participants. For the judges, I appreciate you all for judging all of our pieces fairly and giving them feedbacks. I know it's hard to objectively review these pieces without getting too much into subjectivity, and the feedback that you guys have been getting, but I think the judges team did a very good job! I love all of you guys' reviews! For the other participants, don't let the result discourage you to a certain degree. I believe that competitions like this really help you keep track of the progress you've been making as a composer, at least for me anyway. I would like to also thank the voters who voted for me on the popular voting polls. I'm delighted to be one of your guys' favorite submission. I think that's all that I'm going to say since I can't think of anything else. This project has been heavy for me, especially the scoring process (oh look, that's me complaining about making the sheet music for pieces again. Seriously though, the software would literally froze every time I click on something). It's actually my first ever orchestral project that I was able to finish and score, so that's something. But I think in the end, It was all worth the effort. Though I am probably going to take a break from composing orchestral pieces, literally got a fatigue from it. Oh also fun fact, I wrote the piece description and the title like minutes before I submitted, so... yeah. Alright ya'll, enjoy the piece!

nice start. develop these ideas in a piece extended out to the length they deserve. do not hold back, live up to the artistic potential that the current version of this work points to, a potential much to be desired and eminently possible, i think. achieving great art is not necessarily 'easy' or quick. these comments may have no particular meaning for you, only you can decide that, so i present them here only in general terms.