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Ha, I read parts of Wilson’s books a while back and this account sounds very “Wilson” indeed, lol.

i’m hoping to participate, itll be a long shot finishing everything up and recording it in time but yeah

thanks @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu - yeah, English renaissance was very colorful and actually had a pretty big range of expression from the silly character pieces to some of the serious monoliths. Sometimes I get upset that I discovered it so late.

Hey, I was hoping it would be okay to put some of my recordings that are not compositions here. I play early keyboards, so harpsichord and clavichord. Here’s a sample:

very mystical vibe, interesting that you still got that despite that a major triad was basically baked in to the theme.

I don’t have the score for all three of these so bear with me. unfortunately my videography sucks too and i think i often record in a way that makes the instrument sound pingy. anyway, tell me which one you hate the least

listening now and i really dig. I know i’ve said my opinion of the original themes from ff is that they’re rather generic but you make really creative variations out of it.

unfortunately @user011235 there isn’t any video game in progress. That would be amazing though. i wrote the clavichord version thinking it would be a character select music for such a video game though. So interesting to see what @PeterthePapercomPoser does with keyboard scores. The middle part really shines much more in the orchestrated version in my opinion. I used to do orchestration before the obsolescence of finale and I feel like peter has much brighter and friendlier symphonic takes whereas my ideas usually skewed much harsher. And some of the things Peter knows how to do I never got around to learning. The kid knows what he’s doing!

i got it into my mind that i want to make better recordings of stuff i’ve already recorded, but still have it be very much my homemade youtube video style. so John Come Kiss Me Now (Byrd)….itll be my 4th recording and I hope the new one will be the best one out there Robin Hood (anonymous) i made a crappy recording of this one three years ago and i think the piece deserves better. most everything i recorded in the past could be a lot better but i don’t want to overload myself, so I’m sticking with those two right now. Also working on a piece by a living composer but I may wait to record it til I get a full chromatic 4 octaves instead of the short octave virginal which would make it a lot easier. Also, one reason I’m wanting to do robin hood and john come kiss me now, now and not later is because they seem like they were written, perhaps not on a short octave keyboard but a split-sharp, so the stretches in a few cadences are actually easier on a short octave. And like I said Ill be switching my current virginal in for an identical one that had the chromatic octave. you get the idea (maybe). also, i expect a new piece to be finished this spring, it’s a galliard/ corant about 5 minutes long. but the writing of the presentation score could take longer. @PeterthePapercomPoser i didn’t know you were such a pop music fiend

thanks @Luis Hernández, yeah I tend not to ever get too slow and stately just owing to personality, despite the nature of the historical Pavan, and also I feel like long sustained notes are not great on a plucked string instrument. anyways i really appreciate you listening!

I listened and I think you have a really good sense of extended harmony and how to make it “pretty” without being generic at all

Hi everyone, I finally recorded my new Pavan and Galliard…I decided to make the two movements separate videos, unlike how Ive done multi-movement stuff previously. I should probably add some more ornaments to the score but it will be on the videos should you watch. The piece is dedicated to my great aunt. here are the two videos:

@PeterthePapercomPoser Thanks - yeah, I liked the melody, which , despite that the competition stated must be used in a dance form, originates from a 16th century plainchant. I actually didn't read all of the rules before I wrote the piece so I kind of just went with the keyboard figurations over a plainchant because that's what it felt like @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu and @Thatguy v2.0 thanks for listening/ watching.

Here are two dinky renaissance keyboard pieces I wrote for some informal/ goofy competitions on various discord servers....in both cases we were given a theme that we were supposed to use.......Feel free to comment anything at all.

thanks luis, i’m glad you sat through one of my long-winded compositions. Yep, there are still people writing in “historical” styles on period instruments, some of whom genuinely have “something to say”….but I definitely wish it were more. So I hope if nothing else my stuff prods others to do their own creations and that the scene can be a bit more vibrant for composers. I think there’s something about early music being distant enough from our everyday that gives it a novelty that actually makes it very fertile for new music, contrary to what might be assumed (that it is impossible to communicate or say something new and individual in styles that are of the past).