ComposaBoi

The root note of the new home key is the note that the augmented chord was gravitating toward. Heard one after the other it makes more sense imo. Also, the keys of all the movements outlines a D augmented chord: D F# A#(Bb in this case for ease of reading and writing 😅) and D again. It’s all part of my massive big brain hyper-genius plan 🤯 (sarcasm) I am actually not a string player! But my brother is and I always have him test my music lol. You’ll notice I have very simple bowing in this movement for the exact purpose of giving the string players an easier time lol. (Sorry lower strings 😬) Hehehe, once again all part of my evil plan 😈 The light scherzo is meant to be “interrupted” by both the sighing motif and the english horn motif from the first movement. It’s nice to hear a second opinion, and interestingly, Tchaikovsky was a massive influence for this movement! Thanks alot for the feedback, I look forward to your “indefinite” future comments! 🤣

I think you said that last time, and I agree! It’s just difficult to compose with the fast chromatic runs 😭 the main thing is that the allegro part is my subordinate theme and I want the exposition to be successful in its EEC, so I need to not modulate TOO far xD but I agree. It gets a little repetitive 😅 Hmm. The problem might in part be due to the program because the dynamic there is forte and fortissimo, but I’ll start the crescendo earlier, maybe even make it start on fp to accentuate the cresc, and maybe I’ll make it molto accelerando instead of just accelerando 🤔 Hehehe that’s what I wanted 😈

I was trying to limit myself more with auxiliary winds with this piece lol, and I thought it worked fine, but I’ll try a piccolo, or maybe just use the very highest register of the flute. I’ll see what works. Yup! 👍 I’ll try that too, but I’ll probably end up preferring how it is now 🤣 I may have stolen that accompaniment from the 3rd movement of Mahler’s second symphony 😬 Thanks for the feedback! I always appreciate it.

Once I'm officially done with the piece, I'm going to put it in musescore 4 with the fancy musesounds. I just don't like composing in that newer program

I'm almost done with this piece, I just want to see all you nice people's thoughts before I call it complete. The program is in the last post I made about it: Thanks in advance for any helpful criticisms or advice 😄

I have no criticism, I just wanted to say well done! It's such a simple piece, polished to perfection, and I love it!

I talked with him. He said he uses a midi keyboard and didn’t play the parts he had trouble playing. So he’s sort of “half playing” I suppose

Sorry to break it to you, but listening to this, I'm getting many clues that you were scammed, because this does not sound real. Even if they had used an electric piano, there's no way their tuplets are that precise at that speed, there's like no dynamic nuance, and the dynamics rarely even match properly, and the pedaling sounds unnatural. Sounds like they took a midi and messed around with tempo changes. The piece itself is well written. The themes are memorable, they develop nice, etc., so well done. The main issue I have is the enharmonic spelling in the score makes it troublesome to read sometimes, so I'd suggest reading into that.

The Chopin sonata was definitely a big inspiration, but I didn't even realise the clear Liszt Dante sonata influence lol. I did intend an attacca at the end, I just forgot what it was called 😐. That was a typo. There was another typo where I accidentally did 'mosse' instead of 'mosso'. I also noticed I left my full name in there, so to avoid being doxxed, I updated the score with some of these fixes. Just another thing I missed. Fixed that too. Thank you for the feedback!

Last day rushed to finish and record!

This is a piano sonata I've been working on. It's sort of a venting piece for me. I write it while dealing with the thoughts of being a gay man in a conservative Christian community, so I think it's applicable for Saint Valentine's Day, but instead of "I love you," it's more, "I wish I could love you (without being abandoned or shunned by everyone I know)." Kind of melodramatic, I know, but I'm pretty happy with it so far. I plan on making 2 more movements. Forgive my mistakes in the piano recording, (especially measures 246-7. Yikes, I butchered that)!

I quite like the atmosphere it creates. I especially enjoyed the central section where it built in tension. I don't know what the exercise specified or what constraints or goals may have been set, but imo I didn't think that a reprise of the earlier material toward the end was the most effective decision. I personally feel that continuing going in new directions with the established texture would have worked better. But that's just what I felt, and again, I have no idea what the exercise was for.

Great work as per usual! The counterpoint is masterful, though the dissonance in the beginning was jarring at first, it works well I think. Especially after more listens, it makes sense and isn't so jarring. One thing that I felt was problematic was that the low lines were sometimes muddy, which is hard to avoid when you have two voices in the same bass register. I do think it would sound much better with real instruments though, so it may be alright. I also felt that the sheer number of tuttis, though masterful in execution and contrapuntal technicality, create a bit of a repetitiveness throughout. Alot of this repetitiveness went away by about the fourth listen as I began picking up better on the intricacies and understanding the structure, but the fact that it took so many listens to get that point might mean something. Or maybe I'm just bad at listening to fugues other than Bach ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ So, I guess after so many listens, most of those issues disappeared for me, except the muddiness of the cellos in some instances. Overall, solid work writing this 6voice fugue. I'm excited to hear it in the context of the rest of the movement.

It's changed a bit overtime, but I've always written music for myself. I only started sharing music online fairly recently I'd say, and I've still only shared a small-ish portion of the music I've written. This has evolved over time because I've found that when I receive feedback, even if I don't like it at first, I end up getting a result I like better. So, I guess I write for other folks, (those that help me improve namely), but ultimately, it's for my own enjoyment and expression (which has been especially expressive lately because I'm going through the angsty depressed teen phase that Henry so detests lol). It's interesting because it seems most folks so far write music for themselves over writing for other peoples' enjoyment. I guess I kindof expected such, especially on a forum which has such a high concentration of more "classical" composers.

It's less so the speed and more the technique at that speed. A harp can play arpeggios and glissandi very very fast because they can glide across or alternate hands, but you have two notes at a time that are close together and fairly fast on the same staff. Pluck like that in the air and feel how awkward that is. The best solution I think would be either to increase the note duration or make it one note at a time, but maybe you can figure something clever out. Also, that is a great piece to study. Saint-Saen's harp writing is top notch stuff. Yes, that would work. To get an understanding as to why that's too fast, grab your guitar and play that part at speed with only one finger plucking on only one string. Anyway, I'm glad my feedback has been of some use 🙂