PeterthePapercomPoser

To critique these fragments so far as a piece of music: In the beginning, I can't hear the bassoon part. In general the whole piece sounds like it's being played either too fast, or it's too metronomic and mechanical and could maybe use some rubato. You've balanced all the instruments at the same dynamic - the melody should be balanced in high-relief above the rest of the voices and I think it would bring a much more musical impression. Those are the things that jump out at me as getting in the way of giving the music a more fair appraisal and of really being able to hear how good or bad it really is. It does seem like the intro is a bit meandering, but I can't tell without any accompaniment or even just hearing the bassoon part might help. But I do really like the structure so far of having the strings and Flute come in first, before the Oboe takes center stage. Looking good so far! Thanks for sharing.

Prok 3, Prok 2, Tchaik 1, Tchaik 2, Rach Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini

oooh! Sounds spooky! If it were mine I'd turn down the Harpsichord in the mix.

Hey @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu! Glad to hear you managed to finish one of your juvenilia! There are many features of this composition that I really like. Many have already mentioned the Neapolitan 6th which you apparently didn't even know about at the time of writing this. I don't know if it's common to prepare the N6 with it's own dominant 7th like you have here (A7), which I really like. Also - very cool and foreshadowing use of different divisions of the beat - freely transitioning from triplets to 16th notes. Also - there's some really cool variations of the main melody in the left hand (the Meno Mosso at m. 134). The crossing of the hands to bring the melody into the bass register is also really creative. It just shows that even as a really young Henry, your musical instincts were innovative and refined. I'm surprised that upon revising this work you didn't expand the fugato section into something more substantial. It's something I keep thinking of doing for my 10 Variations on a Gypsy Theme. The fugue variation there is really stunted and incomplete too. Nice ending in C# major and with a plagal cadence. Overall, a really great piece - thanks for sharing!

Hi again @Tunndy! I've watched all your "orchasrations" so far and I have to ask: are you learning anything from this process? It seems like all you're doing is importing midi's of the piano pieces into an orchestra template and copying and pasting the different parts into various instruments, essentially just doubling the parts, mostly in the same register as the original. But there's so much more to orchestration. In your orchestrations, you always include the piano part in the final finished orchestration, but I think a real test of whether you can effectively turn piano pieces into orchestra pieces would be if you excluded the piano from the orchestration. Let's see if the orchestration can stand on its own, without the piano! There were plenty of opportunities in this piece to use the string orchestra really dynamically, to create something that is quite different from the original piano piece. Like when Debussy stacks the F and Ab dyads in various registers, each an octave higher than the previous: I think you could have used the string orchestra really dynamically here by using the Violas, 2nd Violins, and 1st Violins to sustain those dyads and create a rich chord. That's just one example. But I don't think you're learning any of these techniques with the way you're orchestrating these pieces. And, honestly, I find your "orchastration" videos kinda cringe. 😕 Thanks for sharing though and if you do learn something from doing this then by all means, keep going!

@Maxthemusicenthusiast has also submitted music!

Hey @gaspard! Nice Saltarellos! I know tennis is listed as one of your hobbies, but why does it always seem like you're dressed in tennis clothes when you record your videos? LoL! First one - I like how quickly you can cycle through different seemingly unrelated keys in this kind of style of writing. I like the timbral change in the second one that you bring about by the change from the very low to the very high register of the instrument. But besides the sudden register change in the beginning all the other changes are done very smoothly. The third one has some cool canonic imitation between the hands. Thanks for sharing!

"Hello, I'm sharing my piece for string quartet, "Clowns," inspired by a group of killer clowns having fun on Halloween. I'd like to clarify that the audio is MIDI, as the piece wasn't recorded. It should be around 3.30 minutes long, this one a little faster. Best regards!"

@sebastian Pafundo has already submitted his piece entitled "Clowns":

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No - you can review the pieces the way you usually do. Or you can make a new template for yourself with completely different categories and on a completely different scale/point system. It's all up to you!

I have made a Competition Reviewing Template for those who want to review the pieces using the scoring definitions and categories mentioned above.

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It isn't my forum. @chopin is the owner. But this code of conduct and forum etiquette was a staff creation. That means @chopin, me, @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, @Thatguy v2.0, and @UncleRed99 were involved in its creation and we all agreed that it was necessary.