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

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.

Hello everyone, I wrote a Christmas piece for violin and piano with a pop-style song structure (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, verse, chorus, coda), although there are no lyrics (really bad with writing lyrics, sorry!!^^). This is one of my first times writing music in pop form. Enjoy!!(: https://youtu.be/dG44w4HV6n0?si=9KvIDHHG8VUufK0M ~Frank P.S. My original post of this piece in the ‘24 Christmas music event: https://www.youngcomposers.com/t46593/christmas-music-event-2024/

It is a beautiful piece. It sounds totally Debussy. I think the treatment of the piano all the time in quasi-percussive mode, except at some points like at the end, detract a bit. It reminds me a lot of Cathédrale Engloutie. A different matter is the violin. I guess you have mastered its possibilities... Those glissandos with harmonics and glissandos in opposite directions...., are possible. I imagine they are. Regards.

I liked it very much. Within its apparent simplicity, the motifs, phrases and variations are well elaborated.

Hi @Jackie, Wow I like this! The opening and ending is lovely with the faxbourdon texture. The main section reminds me of the 1st movement of Beethoven’s op.109, but the mood is completely different here with a bit of sadness. Nice playing too! Thx for sharing! Henry

Your performance is great! I love the harmonic direction of your music. It's simple yet elegant, something I always strive for in writing. 🙂 Well done, thanks for sharing!

Is it weird that the first word that comes to mind after following along with the score & video audio is the word "Adorable"? 🤣 Reason for that is because of how much your score represents a personal notebook. I like it when people use their own little phrases and staff notes to indicate what to do. Often times, it's even easier for another player to read and play along with it that way. Being someone who's a bit of a perfectionist with the work I write, Personally, I'd have notated the articulations, dynamics, tempo, and used music terms for some of the areas that you have notes marked at. But that's just my personal take on it. You've clearly got your own style mastered, and I applaud you for that, Jackie! Very well done performance, and a pretty lookin' score, to boot! 🙂

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!

Hey @Layne, This sounds really scary, and the fact that scare my 💩 out! The opening part sounds really effective the shimmering high violins and your voice! Are those high notes sung by you too? The 2nd part sounds more medieval with those parallels, but the horrible aura returns at the end. I like it. Sad you don't submit this wonderfully scary piece in @chopin's Halloween Challenge! Thx for sharing! Henry