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wasn't expecting the bombastic ending, but what happened happened this isn't really my usual style, just practice. the last chords need balancing

Nice piano piece and I enjoyed the full battle version as well! I think something you could have done better in the orchestrated version is use the piano only in the extremes of its register as that's how piano sounds best in an orchestral context. There are loads of arrangements out there where the arranger simply took a piano piece and kept it in the score throughout the whole arrangement just adding more and more orchestral instruments to thicken the texture and they really sound very dull. That is the worst way to orchestrate a piano piece. But if you removed some of the piano and substituted an appropriate wind or string arrangement in the middle of the register and use the piano in only the very high or very low tessitura it would sound 1000% better imo. Those are my thoughts. Thanks for sharing!

I'm not sure what happened to the other 3 tracks you posted - they didn't work for me. So I only listened to the first one. This is very delicate and sensitive music and it seems to be well written for easy playing on the piano. Although keep in mind that you start the piece off on high E's and D#'s which makes it sound like you're about to play the "Fur Elise" by Beethoven except an octave higher! LoL It quickly goes on in a much different way ofc. Very effective use of inversions and suspended dominants which is so appropriate to this style. Thanks for sharing!

No, I didn't know that, but thanks for the information! I composed this piece of music about the black holes in a more metaphorical way... Thank you for your comment! 🙂 I created this synth lead at the beginning with Arturia Pigments, or maybe with U-He Hive... I don't remember exactly.

Great video of the black holes and the gravitational lensing effects! Did you know that gravitational lensing is one of the only indirect ways to observe dark matter? Because dark matter doesn't interact with light except to bend it through gravity. Sorry - I find all that stuff fascinating and this music would make a great background for a documentary about astrophysics. I can just imagine Neil deGrasse Tyson or Michio Kaku talking about black holes and neutron stars to this track. What are the names of the synth instruments that you used in this? Thanks for sharing this fascinating video and intense music!

I think @ComposaBoi's contribution is tremendous to this thread and he really shows how this piece could most certainly be danced to like a traditional minuet! (by removing the fermatas the music flows much better and uninterrupted) I like the crescendos and diminuendos that he added to the B section and at the end of the A to make the cadence stronger. I am not sure how much I like the sforzandi or the sudden changes in dynamics in the A section. I think those kind of sudden dynamic changes would be much more appropriate in a scherzo (which is also a form that evolved from the minuet in a classical symphony). Thanks for sharing!

I like your article about locations in VGM! Although the breakdown of the instrumentation might be more useful for beginners or composers who only write in a DAW. The breakdown is very useful for people to be able to hear all the different groups of instruments you've layered on top of each other. But the same information can easily be gleaned from a score. I'm not sure if someone listening to each section in isolation will be able to understand at each point in the recording the role that that section plays in the context of the whole. Unfortunately, I believe that score-study is the only thing that can really provide the kind of knowledge that you're trying to impart with this breakdown. The piece is really great though - I like the introduction and the main theme played by flute. Although, correct me if I am wrong but don't you also use chimes in this? You don't mention them in the percussion section of your article. Thanks for sharing!

Thank you for your review! I'm glad, you like my work. Yes, you nailed it, I used viola da gamba, recorder and lute, but I also used a psaltery. 🙂

Very nice - lively for most part mixed with quieter chorale-like moments. Whether you think the final chord needs rebalancing, the overall balance came over fine. The contrast between the staccatos and lyrical phrases sounded well especially when they changed players, like when the horns played a phrase, reiterated or expanded next in the trumpets etc. I haven't looked at the score in fine detail but the engraving looks accomplished and in good detail. Nothing to crit - it's just a happy piece. Elevating. The end towers up nicely. Congrats.

Wow the music is really great and goes right to the heart of the medieval kind of vibe needed for the theme of the competition. I think it's great that it's playful - it's minor/phrygian anyway and that to me sounds angry enough to depict the angry farmer. It wouldn't sound good imo if it was in some way even angrier. I think the instrumentation is also very appropriate and the occasional "huh!" of the mens choir really lends itself well to depicting a group of farmers singing/chanting along with the music. Let me try and guess the instruments: viola da gamba, recorder, lute? The percussion makes the music sound very busy and full of life and energy. Thanks for sharing this piece full of personality!

This does in fact show some good awareness of good bass motion and relation to the melody. I think the other commenters in this thread have already said lots of great useful things to improve upon. I would just add to what @Luis Hernández already mentioned that being able to jump into circle-of-fifths motion at any point in a progression can be really useful as that kind of chordal and bass motion can be very strong and interesting and will help you to create more harmonically interesting pieces that aren't so reliant on repeating dominant-tonic resolutions. It's hard to write slow movements too - not my particular favorite thing to do as I like stuff that moves more quickly. Thanks for sharing!

Now this one has some real irregular phrase lengths! There's 7 + 7 bar phrases in the main theme in the beginning and also 7 + 7 in the 2nd section after the repeat. I think because of the irregular phrase lengths and overusing step-wise motion the melody can sometimes sound like it's aimlessly wandering about the keyboard. But that might just be how I perceive it. Thanks for sharing!

Wow - you use super irregular rhythms and phrases in this piece! The main theme actually fits into 8 measures, but because of the offset-by-an-8th-note hemiola in bar 3 (a trick that Brahms loved to use) and the feminine cadences in bars 4 and 8 it makes it sound really unusual. Then you have that strange 2/4 measure in bar ... 9? It's not counted as a bar because it has a dotted barline? Without that measure your next phrase also adds up to 8 bars before returning to the main theme to round off your rounded binary form of this piece. Overall I think it sounds like you resolve to the tonic a bit too often making it overly tonic-chord heavy imo. Overall though, I really enjoyed this piece! Thanks for sharing.