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Hi everyone, this is my new composition, Autumn Leaves. I hope you like it!

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Hi @Jackie! What a wonderful chromatic piece that perfectly reflects the programmatic title! If you have one available I would love to see the score for this and follow along with it while listening. Great job and thank you for sharing such a melancholy miniature!

Bagatelle in G major is a piece I composed in 2011. I was inspired when listening to Beethoven’s Bagatelle in G minor, op. 119 no.1 in my music lesson, and I immediately composed this piece that night in less than two hours. Here is the YouTube video and score of the piece: Bagatelle in G major.pdf The piece is in simple ABABCoda form. The middle section in C minor is probably due to my fervent love with Beethovenian C minor LoL! i revisit this piece because of @PCC ‘s showing of his manuscript in the discord group. I also wanna use this piece to test the new microphone I just buy. It sounds much better than my crappy phone, although with my bad recording skill this recording still has some tears in it. For me the piece is just a banal one, but not bad for a teen. I just wonder how do I transform from this level of writing to the piano piece ( ) in a year LoL! Here’s the Beethoven Bagatelle for your reference: Hope you enjoy this little piece! Henry

Wonderful! I've love the jovial atmosphere, and your performances keep getting better and better 🙂 You're a phenomenal player, your articulations are spot on and really bring out the character. The microphone sounds much better than your phone, but maybe have it back from the piano just a bit. You can always raise the volume but can't do anything about clipping from it being too close.

It's probably too late, but I only got around to finishing my little composition today. I wish you all a wonderful new year! Although late, but hopefully my little piece will at least make you happy. Hurray to the snowy countryside for a sleigh ride.

Yes! If you could attach a PDF copy of the score, I'd also love to follow along with the notation 🙂

Thank you. Do I share the score in the original post?

Yes! Musescore has this feature. Makes a score look a lot prettier many times 🙂 A very easy way to achieve this without having to dig through the formatting windows, is to make sure you have nothing selected in the score, press F8, (or Fn+F8 for laptop), and then click the "eyeball" icon next to "Empty Staves". I typically leave the properties panel open all the time anyhow. It's a useful toolbar!

Hi @Mooravioli! Great job on this piece! I really like the micro-tonal touches you add to it. I can hear that you're using Musesounds. Does this mean that Musescore Studio now supports micro-tones? That's a pretty exciting feature if so! I like how underwhelming the piece is in the beginning. But it develops and flourishes quite well and dramatically even with those crescendoing brass chords that give it a kind of cinematic vibe. You make great use of space throughout the piece, with sparse orchestration until the piece really comes into its own at 4:09 which is my favorite part. It's more fully orchestrated and the theme really sings beautifully there. The only engraving nit-pick that I just noticed after having glanced at the score the first time I listened is that the piece seems to be notated in 4/4 in the beginning, even though the phrasing seems to suggest that it should be in 3/4. Also - Musescore has the feature of displaying only the instruments that are playing at any given point in the score which would make your score that much easier to peruse. Thanks for sharing!

Hello Kyle, Happy new year to you and sorry for the late reply, this piece is not bad at all especially for the style it's written in; it has a really modern and minimalist feel to it, not unlike Hans Zimmer's scores. You bring a lot of rhythmic interest to the work with the overlaying of different parts, and the orchestration sounds quite cinematic(though there are a few odd bits with the sax). My only concern is that the entire work feels quite uniform in it's atmosphere. Though there are some moments where you bring light into the work(at 3:43 for example), I believe you could feature a contrasting section which truly celebrates the life of the individual. Maybe developing a melody in the major key could help. Anyways, this would fit great in a end-of-the-world type soundtrack, and I could already picture Nicholas Cage starring in it. Keep me posted if you ever do a collab, I'd be very curious to hear this work featured in a short film.