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Dear henry, I am amazed that you have lisened to my entire cantata! thank you for that, it means a lot for me. i appreacite that you also gave me criticsm, i have much much to learn, you were right on many points and gave me some good insights. it was my first cantata that i ever written. the second recitative cannot be ARIA because theres not really a structure, there no ABAB form + the text is a continuion of the exposition, i mean thats the point of recitativo. anyways, it really means a lot for me that you have listened, i compose a lot of italian baroque style, although the cantata is german style which i am less good at. thank you for listening to my music, im sure gonna upload more contet in the future. God bless you and your family.

Very cool, especially for your age. Are you the performer? It's well executed already... I'd focus more on new compositions! Keep broadening your chops as a writer, professional performances will come, especially if you pursue your efforts with higher education; there are loads of opportunities there. I'm excited to hear how you take Chopin's influence in cool new inventive ways that are uniquely you. As a musician, many fail to realize how important networking and comradery is amongst your peers. You're already on the right path posting your music for the world to hear, now keep that up by being engaged in communities with likeminded individuals! Keep it up! This is very promising 🙂

Hello @Elad_Hevron, Welcome to the forum!! The Sinfonia is very much like an opening movement of a concerto gross or orchestral suite. I love its driving rhythm. It would be great to see the movement modulate to other key areas other than the tonic minor and it’s relative major! I think it will begin with the full choir of a first movement of a cantata and the instrumental sinfonia is a surprise for me. The first aria sounds very baroque with the singing and instrumental interlude back and forth. I think even though it’s for alto, the melody can go to upper register in climactic passages. For the recitative I’m more used to one with harpsichord and continuo 🤪, and I think the meter can be in unmeasured time signature to imitate the spoken nature of a recitative! I like your melisma in the second Aria. Again I would love the second sinfonia to be a chorale, but I love this more than the first sinfonia! It’s more fluent and virtuosic here and you explore more keys here, for example the tonic major. For the second recitative I feel like it’s more like a third aria! I usually love recitativo secco rather than recitativo accompagnato. The ending aria sounds nice in relative major key. But I would want an ending chorale as well! It must have taken a lot of effort to write an 18 minute cantata, congrats on this! Despite what I’ve said above, it’s quite an achievement to write this! P.S. It’s very nice to see you commenting on other members’ pieces; keep going!! Thx for joining us and sharing your work here! Henry

Hi @Bjarke! Clash of Empires - This certainly hits the target mood for a cinematic piece with this title! It starts out soft and underwhelming, but soon the intensity ramps up with percussion rumbling and low brass hits. And the greatest thing is that you use the same melody in the quiet introduction and when the intensity is high, effectively making this an example of how to use variation technique for good economy of themes. Memoria Fumans - This sounds like a mournful, sorrowful death march (almost)! I guess this is also appropriate for a piece titled "Smoking Memory". There is very little nostalgia or love lost being exhibited here though. The focus seems mostly to be on the loss itself rather than what it might have meant in the past. This piece is also a great example of how to not start the music on the tonic. The ending seems to give some hope that an acceptance of loss might be on the horizon. Fate Knocks - I perceive this piece as being perhaps the weakest of the three presented here. There is scarcely a recognizable theme and the music is dominated by orchestral hits which make the music almost comic/melodramatic especially in the beginning. The intensity of the music is so high and the substance so low that it errs on being funny and the opposite of the intended target mood/vibe. There is nothing sublime or substantive about this which to me makes it sound like just cliched pulp. Perhaps the only thing that is a disadvantage when writing music so quick and in this type of style is that you give yourself scarce time to reflect on your musical decisions and contemplate the structure of your piece and how it might be extended into a longer composition. Without such reflection you take the chance that your compositions might end up sounding like cinematic pulp that achieves its target sounds in the most easy, predictable and cliched ways. Those are just my own personal worries and thoughts. But on the whole, I really enjoyed the first two of the bunch. Thanks for sharing!

@Layne@AngelCityOutlaw@JohnElive1@Jan-Frederik Carl@sned Thank you for your submissions! I'll keep this thread open for one more week but I'll probably begin creating the video sometime next week. If any of you have scores to accompany your submissions, please update and attach those to your posts. Its not required, but the more content I have for the video, the better.