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Hello, I wanted to share a piano sketch that I wrote in one of my scarce moments of inspiration. I have some other ideas but I will not post them because they are extremely undeveloped The sketch is in a late-romantic/impressionist/loosely tonal style that I am now gravitating more towards and it deploys a nocturnal eerie atmosphere where a mysterious chant is sung (maybe by the members of a cult, maybe by monks, it is open to interpretation) with bells in the background. The title is in french as a homage to Scriabin, who wrote titles and markings in french. I would appreciate feedback as well as ways to continue the piece and make it a full length structured piece. While writing this down, I noticed that my music software is not capable of doing certain things needed to write a piece in this style, such as adding cadenzas, changing the amount of staves throughout a piece, having more than two voices in a stave, having a voice that changes staves, adding proper piano fingerings, writing without a tempo marking or even without a metric etc. Can somebody recommend a more professional composing software that can do this things. Thank you Chant mysterieux.pdf What does the piece evoque in your mind so far? PS: I might submit this for the Halloween challenge that @chopin posted if I manage to finish it

This is really well done for a first piece. At the moment there is only few things i can think of for improvement is that this piece could benefit for more counterpoint mostly it seems one idea at a time but having multiple ideas can be highly effective for example in danse macrabe by seant seans he uses multiple melodies and at the climax he have them both at the same time is one example. This also helps add multiple layers of depth. An other example could perhaps be krull by james horner, in the introduction he does a simliar thing you do with one idea at a time but what he does is perhaps in two clear contrasting forground elements one at a time with a background element which all are develop. an other thing i feel like could be improved is the ending. it feels a bit sudden and dissconcted from the material. Perhaps make it more thematicall transition? What could make the finally more smooth transition wise is maybe a suspensful build up slowly with the ideas all ready present. I think what you did really well was communicating the overall emotional arc of the piece which can be really difficult espcally at a beginner level. Some of the thematic elements of the piece during the middle section could be a tiny bit more memoriable. Perhaps more use of motivic ideas? If you look at john williams scores some of his melodies like indianna jones, harry potter, schindler's list , E.T Or Darth vader theme for example have a core idea which is repetition with varity of almost one or two ideas. With this added it could perhaps be more thematical and coherent In the intro perhaps you could add an extra layer of depth with a suspen high string effect somehow? until the brass comes in? If that works.