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Hello everyone! I wanted to share an orchestral arrangement from one the Bagatelles for piano that I composed a few weeks ago. With the hope of trying to keep on learning orchestration I bought a couple of days ago the new sounds for MuseScore 4 by Berlin Orchestral Tools and the Adler's Orchestration book. I found the sounds extremely satisfying (specially considering that they work in my laptop which is a little slow for most things) which led me to test them by trying to orchestrate one of my Bagatelles. Of course, the score presented here is a performance score, the original file for the audio is much more complex to try to make the most out of the Berlin sounds. For this arrangement I have added several sections that are not in the original piece: Lyrical introduction (m.1~8) A motivic transition to the main theme from the F minor B section (m.43~49). Restatement of the closing two bars for stronger ending. The rest is the same as the original piece but I got rid of the repeats (as the piece would have been too long and the orchestration repetitive). The piece is still in the form ABA' with the A part in F major and the B part in F minor. I have been listening a lot to Ghibli Films orchestral music by Joe Hisaishi lately so some influenced might be found here (not on purpose, but rather just by pure listening). The only thing I did on purpose was the use of the piano as the main instrument (which Hisaishi does a lot). Feel free to criticize anything you think is bad. I tried my best and tried to study the details of the instruments as I was needing them, but I am well aware that orchestrating is a hard task and I consider this orchestration a "draft" as there are probably many mistakes. I tried to choose similar dynamics to the ones I used for the audio rendition but I believe maybe most dynamics should be increased by one level for a real performance to sound as in the audio, but I am not totally sure. Any feedback, suggestion or comment is more than welcome! Thank you for listening and hope you like it! --- Original Piano Version ---

I’m quite satisfied with it to be honest. I have tried Reddit before but people there aren’t serious at all to discuss music. Here even though the number of viewers is fewer, many members are willing to provide really useful and in-depth reviews, and many styles can live here. It’s not like “writing tonal music is stupid” or “contemporary music is a contempt” here. It’s also not limited to a few genres like film music or symphonic music here. YouTube is a great platform to promote your music (and also YC) if the algorithm luckily chooses your music to promote! I haven’t heard any others except Spotify. Of course my preferred venue of publishing my music will be a live, but at this moment it’s not practicable yet. Henry

You know my take on this, but I'll get this thread started. You have a beautiful melody, and this will be the star of your piece There are two thoughts here. If your harmony is simple functional, and you mainly stay in key, you HAVE to have a good structure and melody. If your piece is not melodic, than harmony becomes a lot more important. The main issues I see with this piece: Your solos come out of nowhere, and make your piece sound unfinished, and lonely. Your ending was much better in the version you send me over Discord, what happened to that? Your ending here sounds very drawn out and unfinished. At 6:14, you have an odd key change. The problem with something like this, is that you mainly stick in key throughout, and you already set expectations for your audience (simple functional harmony). I would reupload your newest version for better feedback though!

I like the piece, it feels very dreamy. One thing I would do to improve it is to make the piano accompaniment faster and more impressionist (like in un sospiro or un barque sur le ocean)