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Hello everyone! I am studying jazz piano and today I composed a blues theme and arranged it for big band (actually only for rhythm section and saxophones at the moment). I just did it as a little exercise. I am planning to focus on piano playing for some time but I have found that applying the ideas and concepts I learn for composing and arranging helps me improve faster both in my playing and composition skills. For this arrangement I used the knowledge I recently acquired for piano voicings, five voice jazz harmonization, and bass walking bass. All voicings and harmonization are quite basic and I am also sure there must be many mistakes :S. I have not learn anything about drums yet so the drums were just copied big band scores I found online, so I do not know yet what the drum is doing. I might use this theme (or some others I might compose) for slowly practicing Big Band arranging while I learn piano so this is only an exercise that I might keep on improving on. It is my first time composing and arranging jazz so any feedback for the theme or the arrangement is more than welcome. Thank you nd hope you like it!

Christmas adagio movement for string quartet and organ ad libitum. It was originally meant as a middle movement of a Christmas fantasia, but I never wrote the other movements and I don't think I'll ever do it, so now I post this piece as a stand-alone piece. In this work I employed melodies and motifs from two polish christmas carols - Jezus malusieńki (violin 1 & 2) and Mizerna cicha (viola). Hopefully the piece will be performed this Christmas

Hello, Thought I would share my latest work on this site. It is baroque... well sort of. It certainly starts that way, but I tend to experiment a little in the development section particularly. I would like to hear what others' think, whether it all hangs together well. I am quite pleased with it, although feel the end could be strengthened somewhat. https://musescore.com/user/69480886/scores/21582616?fbclid=IwY2xjawGWJ6lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHeNUdrVQGEgy90N_5lHmQbv8ilNVtpJ1AO_uyDPsiUO8hZvIbRE8NEe2vw_aem_tXcb7Kla6S2gw7gwODAioA

Technically devised for a string quintet subtype including two violas (which unfortunately still get porbably eclipsed by the violins), this one got wild with the voice crossings. Since it was conceived as a instrumental canon from the very start, I doubt that might be a problem, specially considering the caveats of 5-voice counterpoint. But I suspect the digital performance might not be able to fully capture potential friction points to be expected with rampant voice crossings within such a dense contrapuntal scaffolding, so any criticism concering that aspect of this composition is more than welcome. Enjoy!

OK FIRST OFF WHY IS THERE SUCH A HUGE BLANK SPACE AFTER YOUR COMMENT!?? It's taking me ages to scroll back and forth!! 😭 Thank you. Every time someone tells me that my music touches them or anything like that, it really means the whole world to me. Yup, I can see that too. I might just raise the melody higher, because it'd me more of a hassle to edit the accompaniment and I'm lazy. But if it doesn't work well, I'll have to fix the accompaniment TwT I'll figure something out God willing!! I just have to be careful not to get carried away with modulating, so the second theme doesn't become too long xD And I'm sure there are part writing issues all over the place. I rushed learning counterpoint when I did, so I'm thinking I missed something, especially since I still struggle writing good fugues 🥲 Thank you! And yes, my music is very personal. I only ever write music (except for study pieces or competition stuff) when I'm inspired by something that strikes me in my personal life. And since I'm a super emotional guy, that usually means the music is emotional. Some tell me that I'm actually too emotional for a guy, and they pile it with a bunch of other "effeminate" attributes of mine, so I'm going to embrace that and make my 6th piano sonata purposely feminine 😈

I really enjoyed it. Specially I loved the way in which you avoided finishing the piece in m.31 and extended it for a few measures. I think it is really beautiful and well-crafted! Thanks for sharing!