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I come to you with yet another piece prompted by an exercise from Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" - Chapter 2: Scale Materials. This time the prompt was "11. Extend the following polymodal and polytonal passage." I chose to change the instrumentation to Bass Clarinet and Sopranino Clarinet as I thought that increasing the distance between the voices would preserve their individuality. I also heard the bottom voice as being more in C dorian rather than in G aeolian. But for the end of the piece I defaulted to a kind of linear cadence rather than ending each voice on its individual tonic. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think!

I have another musical quote from Gary Lachman's "Beyond the Robot: The Life and Work of Colin Wilson". And if you've gotten this far, thanks for reading!

Hi again @Frederic Gill! I decided to write my own invention based on the same motive here: Let me know what you think!

@Frederic Gill inspired this one. He wrote an invention as an exercise from one of his Counterpoint books on the same motive that you can hear here: I was inspired by his attempt so I decided to give it a try myself. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think!

Somehow I also missed this one: The "Bestowed Maestro" badge for 10,000 reactions received!

Looks like @Omicronrg9 already created badges for just such a purpose! From the bottom up: Local Celebrity Trending Artist Eminent Personality Famous Worldwide Nobody has yet received the "Famous Worldwide" badge nor the "Eminent Personality" badge.

Continuing with the Scale Materials Chapter in Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" I wrote this Clarinet Quintet. The prompt was "8. Construct a solo clarinet line in the lydian mode supported by phrygian string quartet harmony. Set both the melody and harmony on the tonal center Bb." Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy and let me know what you think!

That's a neat idea. Except that this would not be a manually awardable badge but based on a rule (10,000+ reputation). The other problem is that right now the highest reputation held by anybody on the forum is @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu's at ~2,000. 10,000+ reputation seems like quite a lofty goal if nobody in the whole history of the website since the early 2000's has ever achieved it!

I've returned to Chapter 2 of Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" which is about Scale Materials, Polytonality and Polymodality. The prompt was "15. Create an original two-octave-scale harmonic texture in a scherzino for piano, four hands." I chose to use C major and C# Dorian as my composite two-octave-scale. Thanks for listening and I hope that you enjoy and let me know what you think!

I'm not sure I follow. There's already so many manually awardable badges .. surely you're not suggesting that someone could ever get them all?! . . .

I present to you the new badge - The Colossus of Prora

@Wieland Handke I googled "Colossus of Prora PNG icon" and I couldn't find the graphic that you used in this image. Could you send it to me please so I can officially make the badge? Thanks!

We staff have decided that it might be a good idea to open the awarding of badges up to the members, not just the staff. The staff aren't perfect and can sometimes miss some good opportunities to award badges to members for some of their excellent or distinctive content. So if you feel like you have been overlooked for an award you deserve - let us know! Tell us which piece you think deserves what kind of award/badge and why and we will consider granting it to you. You can also suggest awards for other fellow composers' works! Refer to the following list of manually awardable badges. If a badge doesn't exist for your particular achievement you can suggest new badges/awards in that thread:

Hi @JorgeDavid! Welcome back! I think the piece is very close to being done! It might be too easy a solution to you or end the piece too early but you could just make a C minor or major chord at the end after what you have right now and call it finished. Unless you see a way to extend the piece further and treat what you have right now as a double exposition of a larger form? Thanks for sharing!