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What better way to announce my new YC account than with my latest composition? This little piece took me around 10 hours of work and I consider it has the most luminous climax I ever composed and one of the most intoxicating endings I have seen for violin and piano duo. I make use of a completely new vocabulary that I never used before or not in such a structured way. Let me know your thoughts. I personally thing the fragment between measures 20-25 could be improved, but I'm not sure how.

I much enjoyed your bagatelle, particularly its classical roots and later deviation into something quirky and at times comical 🙂 Very well done indeed, and impressive you did it in under three hours.

Thank you for listening! The reason why I switched it to piano was because the choral sounds in musescore couldn’t play back the music. I’d post a sample here, but I don’t want to make your ears bleed. 😂

This was excellent, I really enjoyed all of your movements. I know that if you had higher quality playback or sounds, this would be even better! SATB sounded really good to my ears, and the time signature of your first movement is really interesting. Love the complex meter! Maybe you can explain why you decided to use the piano on the last movement though. Even though you warned us about it, I still was a little startled when I got to the piano section, because I wasn't expecting it after about 14 minutes of this choral.

Good catch, thanks for the correction. I was at a walmart parking lot when I was initially scanning it over.🤣 lol Was moving pretty quick. So I must've missed that! So I'll correct myself, and suggest maybe modulate to Db Minor instead, and change the key signature to the corresponding Major chord (Think a major 3rd interval above the note Db. That note's major key signature is your Db minor key signature) which would be the key of Bb. So you'd change the key signature to Bb Major (3 Flats), and respell your pitches to conform to that. You'll have much less accidentals 🙂

It is a work that I liked quite a lot. Although this style close to classicism is not my favorite, it has caught my attention. One thing I've noticed, or it's my perception, is that the format is rather free, it sounds like a little fantasy. The beginning has a 4 bar phrase, then another one with a similar response, but it starts to evolve without stopping until the second part. This one is also very free. All in all, it sounds very good.

Hi @ComposedBySam, The piece is so soothing to listen to.The texture in b.13 sounds so well! Cello melody, then joined by a conversation with clarinet and the piano accompaniment. I think you can use a clarinet in A to avoid a 5 sharp key signature! Also I think you can explore the higher regtister of the clarinet too, though it may ruin the hazy feeling here. Thx for sharing! I like it. Henry