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Is there any site / source from where I can get full scores of classic hits (e.g., Carpenters, Glenn Campbell) ? I need to study the arrangement orchestration.

That's true, off course. I'll soon upload the full song. Thank you, Euler.

...this piece which actually is the accompaniment track of one of my songs which I hope to record soon in my "poor-man's" studio! There was a Tabla rhythm track which you won't find here since it was a sf2 track as GM has no tabla sound! Dekhe Mone Holo Bhalo Nei-4.mid

YouSendIt - File Sharing Transfer Delivery - PC FTP Replacement It's a Bengali song - voice, lyric, composition and accompaniment track mine. It says "I know time changes everything, yet, I don't know why, some changes hurts me very much and I cannot accept those ......... " It's a very badly recorded and mixed piece - I call it the "zeroth take" which is just for archiving so that I don't have to keep everything in my head!

This is the first section of the accompaniment track of one of my songs. I am thinking of making a separate composition out of it later. Do you think it has promise in it ? YouSendIt - File Sharing Transfer Delivery - PC FTP Replacement

This is the first section of the accompaniment track of one of my songs. I am thinking of making a separate composition out of it later. Do you think it has promise in it ? YouSendIt - File Sharing Transfer Delivery - PC FTP Replacement

Sorry again - it should be strings. Here it is : noname.mid

Sorry, I messed it up, being high on C2H5OH!:D You'll find it below.

Yes, this is very much true for Mozart. It's perhaps natural for someone who had to write a bit too many things.

We, the proud children of civilization, like to believe that we are "free individuals", but are we really ? From morning to night, what we actually do is to try desperately to conform to society's "stereotypes"! "What others think of us" is the thought paramount in our mind all the time!

Beethoven used to say : "I wish I could write like Mozart". None of them were obsessed, instead they heard a lot of others' and predecessor's music. Brahms wrote many music based on haydn and beethoven's work. They were good listeners first, and composers later. Zubin Mehta once said "Listening helps to develop the ability for music appreciation, the most important quality of a musician". Schumann, Schubert, Berlioz - none were "OBSESSED" with their own work, they were great lover's of their peers' music. I repeat that a good listener and appreciator, who is much more mature, has the best chances of writing great music. He is mature because appreciating others' music dispassionately and analysing it requires an open mind, a keen sense of responsibility, suppression of ego and a sense of music (which someone aspiring to be a musician should possess in any case). There are many instances of such here in YC. Just read Morivou's comments in this page : http://www.youngcomposers.com/forum/string-quartet-g-minor-5343.html His analysis may or may not be perfect, but just see his sincerity and honesty, and the use of language to avoid hurting the composer while conveying what Morvou really thought. If this is not Maturity, then what is ?

CreationArtist is right. Although you perhaps need to define "maturity" first, I can safely say that being a very abstract art form, Instrumental Music demands a certain amount of abstract reasoning from the composer. This certainly helps him/her in developing mentally. This mental development is different from those linked to "intelligence" as commonly perceived. But I think good listeners and critics are much more "mature" than the creator who is obsessed with his own creations.

You and many other Westerners liked my other works even though they were based on Raga! Because the "structure" perhaps made more sense there. It is not the material, but the form that is important in any music more than 3 minutes long. This time, I hope you've listened past the fermata.

I suspect the MIDI is the culprit as it so often is - MIDI is not very portable. I checked it and I found that the fermata at around 5.35 min. is lost in MIDI ! Please note that the piece doesn't end with the fermata. After a bar's pause, the 1st theme tries to return, but loses the battle to Bahar. The mp3 is 6.53 min .long. .....sorry, I didn't see you already replied.

The transition starts at around 5th minute as you noticed, which you rightly called an extended coda, is the transmuted section in Raga BAHAR - do you think it should be longer ? You could not find much difference in mood ? But the atmosphere of the Coda is very different from the 1st theme in Raga Darbari Kanada to an Indian listener. Not only the Raga, but the key and tempo changes too. Darbari is a night raga (think of a long chilly winter night), while Bahar is the essential spring-season raga! I'm confused since two of my Indian listener's reaction about this work is "It sent shivers down the spine - absolutely fantastic!", and they are my severest critics! Here's the mp3 : YouSendIt: The Leader in File Delivery. Please listen and reply. This is very important for me.