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Hey again Vince! I like how this one sorta starts like an invention. It also has a certain dichotomy between major and minor that's really interesting. Like I didn't perceive the main melody in the beginning to be in F# minor, but the piece is clearly meant to be in that key since that's how it ends. Also, just from listening without the score, I wouldn't have known that the piece modulates to Db so very smooth transition there. I would perhaps make sure that the tie from A natural to Ab at the key change with a slur over it is clear that you mean that to be a different note, not just a continuation of the A natural (perhaps a courtesy accidental might be in order). But that's just an engraving nitpick. Thanks for sharing!

Hey @Thatguy v2.0 ! I like the unusual palindromic structure of this one! I feel like perhaps giving this one a heavy reverb and perhaps a delay effect as well would make it sound like some kind of a cave level in an RPG which I love. It has a clear sense of tonality despite the adventurousness, both starting and ending on an A minor 7th chord. And there seems to also be that strange dichotomy between the tonic and it's tritone (Eb) that we talked about. This is a very interesting piece from a lot of aspects: melodically, rhythmically, harmonically. Great job and thanks for sharing!

Hey @Thatguy v2.0 ! Stoked to hear another installment in your series of Preludes! I've been meaning to give them a review for a while now so here it goes! First off - I love the idea of these recurring flourishes that you insert into the piece! I think my favorite one is in bar 20 - that chord is just so weird - I think it's just an E5 b9 right? That's such an unusual sonority! I also like how the piece takes its time getting started - it feels like the real melody doesn't actually emerge until bar 16. It seems (at least to me) that all the other melodies are variations of this central and pivotal idea at bar 16 which is the prototype/main melody in the piece. But it emerges organically as if from out of a fog which I love! Great job on this prelude and I'm stoked to hear the next!

Thanks @Grant Weep for introducing me to this Bartok piece! I already love the Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and this ensemble is right up the alley of that one. I am hard pressed to find the similarity between my dotted quarter and eighth note figure and this piece at 0:42 - I had to listen really hard to even detect what it was that you meant. But I guess there is a miniscule similarity! And I'm always glad to be compared to Bartok - one of my favorite composers for sure. Now I'm going to have to check out the rest of the movements of this Sonata! Thanks for your review and recommendation!

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Hello @Mamuka Chkheidze and welcome to the forum! Do you have a score of this piece? It would help greatly to allow us to review it! Thanks!

Thanks! Glad to hear another potential working on these prompts besides just me and @Luis Hernández ! I don't know if I'll be looking to expand pre-existing pieces that I wrote based on the Persichetti exercises. I think once I sift through the whole book and do exercises from every chapter, I will start the book again at the beginning and comb the exercises for potential prompts that could be utilized to write longer, more substantial works. I still don't know if these exercises are conducive to longer form works honestly. But I am also amassing my own google doc with prompt ideas inspired by these that I could use in the future to write more music, so who knows! Thanks for your comment!

Hi @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu ! Congratulations on finally finishing this revision of your Clarinet Quintet! I'm glad that you are now able to move on to other projects! I don't know if anyone has mentioned this yet - I think you did say something about someone mentioning that parts of this reminded them of Brahms? For me the pickups to mm. 63 reminds me of Brahms Clarinet Sonata No. 2 2nd movement - Allegro Appassionato. Especially the b2 Neapolitan inflections in the Clarinet melody there really remind me of Brahms. I guess you have the 2nd part of the Development without a key signature because it's so modulatory? I like the canonic imitation in mm. 359! I also enjoyed the simultaneous diminution/augmentation of the motivic material in the last part of the Development! I love that slow theme you brought back in the 2nd part of the Coda! Great job - thanks for sharing!

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I have finished "The Occult" by Colin Wilson and have picked up the sequel "Beyond The Occult: Twenty Years' Research Into The Paranormal". Here is the very introduction that also delves into some discussion of music. Thanks for reading!

I've taken to another exercise from Chapter 8 of Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" - "Compound and Mirror Harmony". This time I've chosen Exercise 7 - "Move a chamber group through several mirror chords where the reflective harmony is generated by the same tone and by different tones." In this case he is referring to using symmetrically invertible scales just like in Exercise 8 which I already did. In that exercise I built the respective mirror scales on the same tone (C) so in this exercise I sought to build the mirror scales on different tones only. I also created an inverted canon at a 10th and a quarter note between the Oboes and Bassoons. I used the following chart from the book to simplify the exercise for myself (so I used E Mixolydian in the Oboes and C Aeolian in the Bassoons). At one point I switch the Oboes to Ionian and Bassoons to Phrygian, just like in Exercise 8, but this isn't accompanied by key signature changes. Thanks for reading and for listening! I would appreciate any of your suggestions, comments, critiques or observations! Persichetti Exercise 8 - 7.mp3 Persichetti Exercise 8 - 7.pdf

Great topic, @Grant Weep ! I am sure that @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu will be able to contribute to this topic given as how he always says that he writes his music over long periods of time. My Variations on "Deck the Halls" for Piano and Orchestra I started writing the beginning of and the 1st and Rondo Variation back in the late 2000's and only finished it more recently in about 2023 I think. So about 15 years. And there are other old works that I have access to that I am in the process of finishing and publishing thanks to the fact that I can open all my old project files with Cakewalk Sonar DAW. Thanks for your idea for this topic!

It's been a while since I've composed anything, so I felt like getting back into doing some Persichetti composition prompts. I am now on Chapter 8 of Persichetti's "20th Century Harmony" which is titled "Compound and Mirror Harmony". The particular prompt for this piano piece was "8. Write an opening section of a two-part piece for the piano employing two symmetrically invertible scales. The mirror writing should be kept strict throughout." So I tried to do just that with this ~1 minute long piano piece. I tried my best to make an actual piece of music rather than an exercise, but let me know how I did! I'd appreciate any of your comments, critiques, suggestions or observations! Thanks for listening! Here's the form of the piece: A - Right Hand - C Mixolydian, Left Hand - C Aeolian B - Right Hand - C Ionian, Left Hand - C Phrygian A Persichetti Exercise 8 - 8.mp3 Persichetti Exercise 8 - 8 Score.pdf

There were 9 entries though🤣😂

I don't know if I'm allowed to talk about it yet! LoL .. but don't worry .. we'll publish it here when it's done!