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The Voyage of a Lone Ship - Spring 2026 Composition Competition Submission
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 10 10 10 10 10 7 8 10 Disqualified due to being too long, but otherwise Average is 9.4 Congratulations! You got the highest score from me. I scored everyone else quite low. My only issue was the horn was sometimes a little high, and although each instrument is generally well written for, the ensemble would be a little imbalanced if performed live I think. But besides that, it was great. It's a shame it's too long! Thanks for sharing, it was a very enjoyable listen!
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Spring 2026 Landscapes Submission - "Warmth" - UncleRed99 | Kyle H.
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 7 6 8 4 9 9 8 4 Average 6.9 Not poorly written per se, but I really just don't like this style. It's sentimental, but like in a shallow way. Thank you for sharing!
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Landscapes-Soundscape: Alishan (for Flute Quintet)
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 7 7 5 6 8 10 9 8 Average 7.5 Overall a well written piece. The main issue was the structure felt meandering and didn't have much direction to me. The string chords and arco/pizz changes are completely fine, so I gave you a ten there to counter-balance those who said it wasn't good instrument writing lol. Overall, good job!
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City Rail and Nightingale – Submission to the YCF 2026 Spring Competition
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 8 9 8 10 10 9 7 7 Average 8.5 This was really well written piece and the score is beautiful. And I say this despite it not quite being to my taste. Your talent is very much recognized and appreciated
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Sunset Suite in C minor ( music for the Landscapes - Soundscapes Spring 2026 Composition Competition.)
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 4 4 4 2 6 3 2 GoT Disqualified because string orchestra is not a 5 instrument ensemble. Otherwise average is 3.6 A sunset isn't a landscape, and the piece didn't really convey a sunset to me anyway. Sounded just like Game of Thrones. As a constructive note, Violas have only four strings and can't play a sextuple stop.
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Chinese Fugue -- Landscapes - Soundscapes Competition Submission
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 2 4 1 3 5 N/A 0 1 Disqualified, but otherwise average is 2.3 It really doesn't do what it's trying to very effectively. Nothing fugal about it.
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Spring Submission “Rainy Weather”
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 1 Average 0.9 Sorry, this just wasn't really anything. Sounds like you pressed random notes on a midi keyboard and not much more.
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Landscapes competition submission - Morning On Whidbey Island
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 7 7 5 3 6 7 8 9 Average 7.4 Brought me back to old fantasy games! But overall, not much going on, and because it just kinda sounded like old fantasy game soundtrack, I wouldn't say it's particularly original. But I liked the nostalgic trip, so thanks for that
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Sacrificed to the wilderness -- Landscapes - Soundscapes Competition Submission
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste N/A 7.5 8 9 1 5.5 7.5 7 Average 6.5 The piece was pretty fun, fairly simple too, and it sounds like good percussion music, but it seems like you maybe are more familiar with large percussion sections in bands rather than percussion ensembles, because I would NEVER write out so many staves for a single percussionist. And the amount of instruments each player has would be a pain to set up effectively in a concert hall. But again, the piece was enjoyable to listen to, and the idea of only percussion is fairly unique compared with other submissions
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Landscapes Competition Submission -- Amidst the Clouds & Flowers
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste N/A 9 4 8 8 10 8 8 Average 7.9 Good sound, very good string writing! I suspect you play a string instrument? Overall nice quality and conveyed the landscape well, but structurally, nothing really happened. There was no direction except the beginning really. Kind of meandered. Overall though, I enjoyed the piece
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Landscapes competition submission - Padovana et Gagliarda "Detta la Lombarda"
Melodies Themes Motives Harmony Chords Textures Form Development Structure Time Originality Creativity Score Presentation Instrumentation Orchestration Playability Execution of Given Challenge Taste 7 8 5.5 1 7 10 8.5 6 Average 6.6 Not much going on motivically (not a bad thing) but the few that are present work well for the style, and I quite enjoy renaissance harmony. But I can't say it's original at all. Sounds like any other renaissance brass piece. The score is ok, be sure to put fermatas in all voices at the end. Not very well versed in the instrumentation, so I'll assume it's perfect, and the style and instrumentation certainly evokes the landscape. Good job overall.
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Lamentare Ciobanului - "The Shepherd's Lament" - Landscapes Soundscapes Competition Submission
I’m very flattered that you gave it such a high score! I’m not very proud of it myself, so I’m pleasantly surprised 😅
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Submissions Thread - Landscapes - Soundscapes
- Lamentare Ciobanului - "The Shepherd's Lament" - Landscapes Soundscapes Competition Submission
Hello all. I had a really hard time figuring out what to do. I had a piece I wrote a while ago about Princess Tuvstarr and Skutt the Elk, where a geological formation called a tarn has an important role, but I decided I need to practice writing things for a deadline, so I needed some new idea. For those that don't know, I am ethnically largely Romanian (though I live in the US), so I settled on some Romanian landscape, and what better than the Carpathian Mountains! In fact, I had a drawing I made a while ago of a Romanian Shepherd (obviously as a furry, if you know me at all) in the mountains playing a Taragot - which sounds like a mix between an English Horn and a Soprano Saxophone. There's an old Romanian tale of a shepherd who lost his sheep, so I wrote this piece following that theme: a shepherd lamenting the loss of his sheep. Please enjoy :) Audio.mp3 Score.pdf- Landscapes - Soundscapes - Spring 2026 Composition Competition
- Lamentare Ciobanului - "The Shepherd's Lament" - Landscapes Soundscapes Competition Submission