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Hello, Emilia, and welcome to the forum! I must confess; I both love and hate your piece. Post-impressionism is the style of music I personally enjoy consuming and writing, and you have done great justice to that genre with this work. However, as a violist, I feel very overlooked. That you would include the massive and unwieldy contrabass to the exclusion of the strings' darling alto voice is unforgivable. That's mostly hyperbole, of course. I am offended but I'll get over it. Now for my remarks on your hard work. First, the heartbeat pizzicato work very well, with the offbeat providing an organic rhythm that reminds me of something living and searching. Excellent voice-leading choice to put it under the violin's melodic line! I also really like that you showed genuine restraint throughout this work. There are large-scale dynamics and fantastic textural arcs here, sure, but you chose to hold back on the "crazy," and the result is a deceptively challenging piece that really showpieces what a... ahem, modified string quartet can do. Furthermore, the form and structure is very sound, with the return to the heartbeat texture being such a lovely touch. It's impressive that you captured the text's emotional essence rather than gave a programmatic rendering... but that's the mark of a true (post-) impressionist. My critiques are few and quite minor. What struck me almost immediately after listening to the work was how underused the contrabass part is. For the bulk of the piece it holds pedal tones (which is fine in moderation), but there aren't really any passages where it has an independent voice. If you're going to overlook the viola, please consider giving its replacement a more active role in its stead. ;) Also, some of the chromatic melody, like mm. 10-13 and 18-20 in the violin, is expressive, but some of the leaps feel arbitrary rather than intentional. This could be a matter of taste. If it is intended to represent something (searching, perhaps), consider using stronger support in the lower voices to provide context. Overall, I'd say this is a piece to be proud of. Your concepts are mature, the sound you've created is very much your own, and the connection to the text is genuine. Thanks for sharing (and good luck on the assessment)! Best, Jordan

Thank you for your reply, and I am sorry for the delayed response! Currently, I have a computer automatically generate sheet music for me. What I have in mind is to first use a computer program (such as MuseScore, though I would welcome any recommendations) to automatically convert MIDI into notation, and then study music notation in order to correct and refine the output. As for writing by hand, that is certainly something I would like to be able to do eventually, though I imagine that is still a ways down the road. In addition, my primary motivation for wanting to learn notation is analysis. Just as many of you do, I would love to be able to analyze pieces of music from a notational and theoretical perspective. In short, my two main goals are: correcting and refining the output from software such as MuseScore, and performing musical analysis. Those are what I am primarily hoping to work toward. Best, Lithl.

This is for a senior assessment task - I am new to the forum and thought that it may be wise to ask for feedback on my composition before I submit it, if possible. It is influenced greatly by Ravel, Salonen and Pärt, and I have aimed to write it in a post-impressionist style. I have written it both for my assessment task, where it will be marked out of 20, and for a school performance as a reflection on the scripture passage Matthew 7:12. I have attempted to include elements of human activity - i.e heartbeats, using the syncopation at the beginning and end, as well as a direction of the players to accompany dynamic shifts with loudness/acceleration of breathing. I would appreciate if anyone has any feedback to give :) assessment3.mp3 assessment3.pdf

Hello @JP S. ! I get what you were going for but the music sounded much too martial to me to match any specific landscape. But it does nicely portray the events you described. I think the final portion is meant to sound like the sunrise and the awakening of the animals right? But I can't help but notice a slight similarity to the theme from "Spaceballs": Anyway - there's only a slight resemblance. I enjoyed your music so thanks for sharing!

@PeterthePapercomPoser @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu @UncleRed99 Lol, I put the Noteflight link in the first time but for some reason it didn’t go through. I reinserted it now, so hopefully you can see it

HI there, are you writing by hand or using a program?

Hello everyone, I'm back, this is my new piece in Japanese style, hope you like it. the video: https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1c3EQ6aE9k/?vd_source=95e0ca6d098d75738c935e50eaa3ac41 Op.8 Nr.2.mp3

The Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music (Live in Isolation)

I can play that song fairly well on Electric, fretless bass, but can't handle those constant high G Sharps vocally, without a microphone, at least! 🤣

Thak you so much @SergeOfArniVillage , I am really glad you liked it! I also considered mixing both sections but, to be honest, the main reason I started with the tonal section was because I lacked skills and ideas to keep the atonal section going. So before mixing atonal and tonal ideas I think I will need to learn much more about atonality (what makes it work and different techniques). Thanks for commenting!