E = F Flat

If you have to ask what music is, you'll never know.

Oh I know, and sometimes innovative music like that, while great on its own, will actually hinder the movie. Scores are supposed to add to the viewing experience, not take away or distract from it. I should have added that while he stayed in that same key and never bothered to stray from it, he didn't even do anything great within that key. It sounded, a lot of times, like filler music. Random notes used to take up time, so that too much wouldn't have to be cut from the score later.

It was an amazingly simplistic score in my opinion. Seriously, it was in D minor 80% of the time, never modulated, and I think even I could have developed some of the themes better than Zimmer did in some of the scenes. But I loved the way it ended--it cut to the credits at the perfect moment in the music. Also, I liked this score better than the ones to the first two, so I guess that's something.

In that case, can you tell me how to copy several measures at a time? I've only figured out how to copy one measure. I think you're right, it's not possible in printmusic. So instead, I made a flat sign using the text tool, and formatted it so it was under the trill sign. It looks fake, but it'll work.

My favorite has to be either 5/4 or 5/8. I got to play Isle of the Dead by Rachmaninoff...one of my coolest performing experiences ever.

Piano. I wish I could play it =(. I like Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto #1.

Very nice work! That theme is like gold.

I wouldn't call myself "relatively experienced" yet, but I have improved a bit since my first composition: rrdgigue.MUS

I don't think he's a great composer in general, but I do think he's the best as far as film music goes. I loved the score for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban.

1. After the score has been created, is it possible to reorder the staves? 2. How do you make the note that a trill is trilling to flat/sharp? (I'm using Finale PrintMusic)

Haven't read the whole topic =/ But posting to answer the title question. I usually don't use my instrument to compose. I am writing a concerto for viola right now, and I come up with the themes while playing my viola. I don't know how to play piano, but sometimes I just sit down at one and start playing, and I get some pretty good ideas. Otherwise, I never use instruments to compose.

Guess I'll have to go against the majority here... I like composing at the computer more. I've tried writing music by hand before, but my handwriting isn't good enough and I'm not patient enough to draw all of the necessary figures by hand. And the computer is so much more convenient. If you need to erase something, you can do it without wearing out erasers or erasing holes through the paper; if you need to insert music somewhere, you don't have to rewrite the entire score; and after you're done, it's already (somewhat) professional looking. Of course, I haven't been composing long enough or often enough to really say.

Since I was 11... so about a year and a half now.

My favorites, in order of greatest to least: Tchaikovsky Beethoven Prokofiev John Williams Mendelssohn Brahms Stravinsky All I can think of right now.