PeterHM

Thank you! You are correct, I should have called it "Fantasy in Dm"; I think I named it before writing it, with the intention of it being in major, and later changed the tonality without changing the name. Thank you for pointing that out. And yes, Mozart's fantasy was a big inspiration. I even wanted to make a section, if not the whole ending, in D major like in Mozart's. I also stole some ideas from his Adagio in B minor K.540, his use of borrowed diminished 7th chords was new to me.

Thank you for your kind words! Those are good suggestions, I'll try exploring that motif further, and I'll surely upload the piece when it's done.

Hello there, I was able to compose this beginning of a piece but I don't know exactly where to go from here. The plagal cadence at the end sounds very final, and thats not intended, although it sounds good to my ears. I have ideas, but I was hoping someone with more experience could help. Also, any criticism is welcome. Thank you.

Hello. That's good to hear, I won't let this discourage me, thank you!

Yeah, apparently this guy plagiarized someone else's music too. He probably thinks he's too smart and wants attention. I barely arrived in this forum and it's already left a bad taste in my mouth.

Hello there! It's also my first time commenting, so: I enjoyed your piece a lot. I may be wrong, but I feel like you were inspired by the romantic style, since the emotion and the dynamic changes very quickly. I liked, as someone commented above, the "flow" you achieved here, and the broken octaves are a surprising accompaniment. I have, though, a few observations: The "flow" of the music is often times interrupted by sequences of chords, wich happens twice with the same harmonies. I know you said you wanted to represent the storm, but then the storm shouldn't be interrupted! It would work better to have these harmonic passages as arpeggios, in my opinion. That way, the piece would mantain some of its momentum (not saying it can't stop, I just don't think sudden halts work in favour of your symbolism). You made melodies that have phrases with five measures. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing necessarily wrong with that, I just think, considering the romantic inspiraton that I sensed in your piece, that it would benefit more from a more rigid structure ( periods with 8 measures and phrases with 4 measures). I rewrote, if you don't mind, the first melodic phrase, which I annexed as an mp3.Annex.mp3 You ended the piece with a F major chord which gives it an unresolved feeling. Usually pieces end in the tonaliy they began, or in the relative major/minor. Personally, I would have ended it with a major C chord, after a diminuendo and perhaps a ritardando on the tempo, to convey that the storm is passing, and a calmer and stable weather has arrived (or you could say that the struggle has ended and the musician has found peace). It was nice to analyse a piece of music made by someone else; I hope it made me improve, and that I can help you improve as well. Anyway, you are definitively in the right way. Cheers!