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

I started an outline for a short piece (a Tarantella) several years ago, but I never finished it. So I decided to finish it now. It is written in 6(8 (as usual for Tarantella´s) but I also considered a 2/4-th meter. What is your opinion? I would appreciate your feedback. I wish everyone a nice Easter!

Last piece of my 1st opus. Constructive criticism is warmly welcome!

Hi @arpeggia, This is quite a funny waltz! Those flat notes and chords create funny effect. B.63 should have a triplet marking on it. B.58-60 and b.66 LH is literally quite unplayable with this tempo even playing an apreggio. Even without these bars the piece will be difficult to be played with lightness particularly in b.25-41. Thanks for sharing! Henry

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very nice all around. reminds me in many respects of some of the 'great masters'. now...some ways down the road it would be nice to hear a work that reminds of me the 'great Nazarly' and of no one else. i look forward to that with eager anticipation!

nice but perhaps you are not reaching for the galaxies but only local stars? extend yourself and your art, you have a talent and it should be FULLY exploited! i say this even in view of your description of this form. individual lines from the works of Shakespeare are nice enough but long-form plays will always carry more meaning.

Wow @Nazariy, For me this is very beautiful! I like your introduction using bare B first and only invite E major later. This certainly reminds me the opening of Beethoven's Ninth. Very beautiful tremolo in b.24! Except is the C# in first violin in b.25 not in tremolo or just typo? I like how you keep the B in the melody at the end of the 1st subject to match with the beginning. Your transition is great as well by modulating to e minor, Eb major then B major. I love your motivic usage in the 2nd subject and the climax is bulit with great preparation. The orchestration is very good here. The opening of the development by quoting the two motives from both subjects. Your modulation to Eb minor and introduction of triplets is fascinating and it for sure reminds of Brahms. You then modulation to Gb major and F# minor which is good, but for me having the Eb minor reappear in E minor as retranstion is not too wise a choice since E minor is already featured in the opening of the development. This reminds me the development of the Eroica Symphony, but the keys aren't used there before their appearance. Nevertheless the horn reintroduction of the main theme in recapitulation is great. The move to minor subdominant in the coda is great since it's a usual scheme and it helps build up the ending climax once more by having a cozier key. Great ending as well! Congrats for writing this Nazariy! Really looking forward to your later movements! Henry

Hi @olivercomposer, I like how you feature the augmented chord G-B-Eb in the opening. Your modulation from E minor to G minor by means of octatonic scale is good too. But from there for me it's too hopeful to be dystopian. There isn't any modulation and stay in G minor for the second half and for me you can add more flavourings with weird modulation and harmonic progression like those octatonic progressions to B minor and C# minor, and modulation to Eb minor by means of hexatonic relationship which you use once, or Ab minor as minor Nepolitan. My favourite is how contemplative your cello ending is. Maybe using its extreme high range is great as well as people's yearning. Thanks for sharing! Henry

Hey buddy! I think your style of composition and orchestral writing is very cinematic. Others have mentioned how episodic it is ... I think it's also very good at portraying different sorts of movie characters. I think there are portions of it that lack direction and purpose (like the part with copious piano arpeggios) and even though that part is meant as a transition it feels like it's not really going anywhere nor expositing any kind of important musical material. I am also not too crazy about the liberal use of choir - in the end it sort of fits with the "Pirates of the Caribbean" vibe that I get from that ending portion, but in many places before that I thought that the only function that the choir was serving was to give the kind of shallow impression of epicness that laymen listeners ascribe to those kinds of film tracks. You don't automatically need choir if you want your track to sound epic or sublime imo. If you wanted to expand on this piece (since I mentioned to you that it doesn't sound done and you agreed), you could go back to the very beginning material and vary it in some way (or if you already varied it - pick some of the other material in the track and vary that). The piece definitely sounds like it's jumping from one idea to another, which is fitting for a cinematic track, but not so fitting for a concert piece (so it's up to you what your goal is ofc). Thanks for sharing!

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 🙂

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Just a little ditty for piano... nothing serious. Wanted to write something that was relentlessly cheerful! Edit: I noticed after uploading that a few changes I made were not saved before exporting.