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Greetings! I am back with yet another Muzoracle casting - this time of our very own @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu!!! (Muzoracle is a storytelling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice.) This time, Henry asked the Muzoracle "Will I become a great composer": My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below. This time I used brass and voices since the Major 7th card at left is in the suit of brass and the Perfect 4th card, underneath the Style card is in the suit of voices. If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here: https://muzoracle.com/ These interpretations I'm making seem to be getting more and more elaborate, while the musical pieces they yield seem to be getting shorter and shorter! 🤣 This piece is only a few seconds long but it is an accurate aural representation of the casting which is the main purpose of the music. But, if you have any suggestions for how I can extend these pieces while still staying true to the casting please let me know! This time the black Musician's die landed on Gb and the casting is descending, which means that the diatonic solfege dice that land on their respective degrees will descend to the next degree, while the chromatic solfege dice will ascend up to the next degree. So, the dice landed on Re (Ab), Me (Bbb), Do (Gb), So (Db), and Mi (Bb). These are the tones used in the composition. The direction of the melody is shown by the arrows on each page, and they also lead the reader from the preceding to the concluding statements in the casting. I just tried to find a way to symbolize the variety of different brasses playing at different times coming together at the end because of the orchestration card. And I added the voices since there's a voices card and accelerated to the climax since there's an accelerando card. Thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy listening to this short musical idea/aural representation of Henry's casting! Any comments are welcome.

Here is a Minuet, which I recently composed. Apart from a classical style, there are also some elements of Nordic folk music. I would be very interested to find out what you think of it.

For me I have to fight between the movements of Beethoven’s op.131, 132 and 135. And the winner is…. I just cannot not choose this one…… So full of life and praise and pain of life… It’s even more concise than the slow movement of his op.132 one… Everytime when I get sad or pain I go back to Papa Bee’s late quartets to find someone who always give me power.

Yeah @PCC, First I enjoy this movement more than the first movement! The mood is really religious and serious here which I like very much. Also the theme is more concentrated here when it’s a theme and variation! My head gets much easier on this! I really like the F minor here when a pianist says it’s tragic but also serious and objective. I really like the canon in b.29. So antiphonal here imitating a real church singing, and your playing is doing the justice here. The b.50 variation really reminds me the second movement of Schubert’s D959. Really similar texture and sound here!! The variation in b.74 is a bit unmoving for me with the thick texture. I hope maybe the theme can be played by left hand here! I like the key changes afterwards after staying in F minor for long. For me if I write with this theme I will definitely use the inversion of it. I think it has great potential for adding the inversion! A retrograde is possible too. Thx for sharing! I will try to finish the last 2 movements. Henry

Yo Peter, Thx for doing this for me! On the music I have the same thought as Vince…. WILL I JUST FAIL TO BE A GRRRRRRRRRREAT COMPOSERRRRRRRRR!!! Just kidding LoL! I find some of the casting quite interesting and maybe applicable to all of us as composers! ”You will experience a great inertia. You will be called to decide how to fill it. You may experience restlessness.” I think every composers or artists s experience the same thing right? Like they can’t stop their Muse bashing brains with loads of ideas and can only write them out! For the major 6th one (I’m lazy enough to type out the sentences LoL) I think every new pieces mark my growth and a new beginning! I hope I reach the status of the perfect 4th when I do have my own style! I think it’s everyone’s goal right? For the minor third one, I am always SERIOUS on my music to the point of boring music LoL! I do ‘t like self-pity since it’s uselessly illusionary. I think you can just use them as main motives of a piece? Or use them as the tonic keys of different sections while retaining the programmatic reference? Looks like our Peter is becoming the PeterthePsychic here LoL…. Thx for the piece and casting Peter! Henry

So I listened to the piece and the answer is what... no? 😛

Hey @Quinn St. Mark, It’s definitely humorous and light hearted music! I love those glissandos and funny chords, plus the fleeing rhythms. Definitely a yay. But before that I feel this section alone can be developed for at least twice longer! Like this section alone it can be a small ABA with the middle B section in F major or some close keys, and then the middle section can be in Gb major in a contrasting mood which is less lighthearted for example. I think of the piece named “The Fountain” by Carl Bohm when I learn piano as a young teen and I think you can have that piece’s structure! Thx for sharing! Henry