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Hello all. Here is a short composition for Piano and Viola as the title says. This composition is made for two muscian students at my music school i go to which will be performed later this year I think. Title is still in progress. Any feedback is highly appreciated. Thank you. Best regards. Bjarke.

It's a dance! Hope you enjoy.

Y'all are probably kind of tired of these by now, but last Friday in my history and literature of music class, my professor accidentally played the first two bars of a late Medieval motet by Dunstable (which I later found out to be his Quam Pulchra Es). I wrote this piece during the 50 minute lecture, and it turned out surprisingly well. I only had to make significant adjustments to measures 5 and 6 as I was assembling the audio file (these are almost certainly the most complicated in this piece). Anyway, in the style of late Medieval/early Renaissance music, I tried to use much less chromaticism (which turns out to be much easier to do in a major key).

Hope its okay i share a youtube link. I thought it turned out pretty good. Any feedback is highly apreciated as always. Thanks.

This a great bday gift! Thanks 🙂 I know I need to revise this quite substantially. Alas, time is sparse 😞 but I'll find my way around it. Thanks for very constructive and useful comments, per usual!

Hey @Giacomo925, I wish I have reviewed this one much earlier until now. I really have nothing to add due to previous great comments. I like your usage of polyrhythms, but I sometimes feel like they can be more prepared, for example in b.22 where it’s after a rhythmically less varied passage, and maybe you can introduce the left hand duplets later. Also for the pacing of the piece I feel like there could be more places of rests or less moving passages! The texture can be thinner in some of the places, so that when it gets thick the drama is heightened. Thx for sharing! Henry

I'm always happy to see comments, especially from non-composers on my stuff. So I went with "any publicity is good publicity". I don't get too many negative comments, and I listen to anything that is constructive, but I must admit that I don't pay a great deal of mind to it because now, any track that I release, I only do once I am completely satisfied with it, and so is the client if there is one. So in the off chance now that somebody just doesn't like it, and voices their anger at it...I honestly just don't care lol. It's adding more comments and helping the YouTube algorithm and such. That probably sounds very "up his own @$$" in writing, but it honestly isn't. I think it eventually happens to all composers where, for better or for worse, you are satisfied with what you're doing and if you do look back and realize that you've eclipsed your old stuff and that negative feedback on it (assuming there was any) was correct after all, you just accept it, move forward, and can be proud of both your past work and what's next.

holy crap! it's not everyday that you see such a masterfully written counterpuntal work based on, of anything, fnaf themes! as an avid fnaf fan and a passionate composer myself, this really tingled every spot in my heart. it's really really good, you display such a great command over harmonic tension, and especially the use of counterpoint for tension, really great stuff. admittedly, i only got to the piu mosso at 181, but dont take that personally, i happened to see this at 11:30 pm, and the only thing i can get more than 5 minutes into is usually anime, minecraft args, and fnaf theory videos, so you've basically already passed the average bedtime attention span. i fully intend on coming back to this and listening to the whole thing, but so far, really good stuff!

Nonsense, 30 seconds is extreme lol

Hello @AngelCityOutlaw! What an interesting and bizarre skeleton-dance! LoL I know you champion short pieces which say what they have to say as concisely as possible, but I think you're taking it to an extreme! I feel like you could have easily extended this piece such as, by fashioning a slow creepy section as a contrast to the more upbeat main theme or some kind of other contrasting middle section before returning to the main theme. I used to be on a site called midi-contest.com and the site owner set a 1 minute 30 second minimum time limit for all submissions exclaiming that all music that didn't follow the requirement was "trash" LoL. Although, he was a frustrated old man from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and the site is now defunct. LoL - Thanks for sharing this Halloween event entry!

YES! We're all waiting for more sextet!!