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Hey Dave, For a first piece, this is really quite something! You have a good sense of harmony (my first piece didn't even have harmony, it was awful), and it sounds like you began to add some counter-point-esque lines in the ?viola? near the end (a score would be helpful). You defiantly have a sense for music, which is great so good luck and Keep it up, before you know it you will be writing the score to Star Wars XI-Attack of the Ewoks. :) Nice job! -Evan

Thanks a bunch! I am glad you liked it!

Thanks, I am kinda surprised it took only 3 hours myself (but I guess thats why its so short : P). On that note, I guess by the theory statement I just meant not normal (i.e. circle of fifth progression etc). I will hopefully be able to get my hands on a real recording (if we actually ever play in the studio, after 3 weeks, we still haven't taken out our cellos) in a few weeks, which I will post up here. Thanks for the comments! Mighty speedy of you too :thumbsup:

Hey, This is a piece I wrote two nights ago. It took about 3 hours to compose, another hour to edit, and then another hour to print (my friend's printer sucks). I wrote it for the cello studio class at my school (UF). In this piece I basically (as a composer, not as a chronological aspect of the music) discover a whole knew world of tonality. It is not atonal music, but the chord progressions are not based on any direct theory. The inspiration for this work is basically just the opportunity to write something that will be at worst read, and at best performed. The structure is more or less ABA, with the A section consisting of a harmonic theme more than any particular melodic idea. The B section is a waltz, which is grounded in classical tonality. Then the A section returns and develops into a transition to the final few chords. I hope you all enjoy it, a friend of mine said it was the finest piece I have ever written, although I am skeptical... I welcome the critiques, especially on the harmonic aspects because that is a whole new world for me. Thanks! The mp3 can be found at: Putfile - Adagio for Cello Sextet Finale 2008 - [9, 5 Adagio for 6 Cellos done Score..pdf

The tuning is off, the orchestra that performed it had only 6 rehearsals and started this piece on the third one so... The concert program was great though. We played Night on Bald Mountain, Noon Witch Overture (Dvorak), this piece, and Falla's Three Corner Hat suite no 2. I am glad you all like it! Can you hear the Gong crash near the end? It gets lost in the recording...:)

Thanks, I am glad you enjoy it. I will start studying orchestration soon, so hopefully that will improve as well. More comments would be swell! ;)

Hey guys This is a piece I was 'commissioned' to write in November of 2005. It was premiered on February 26, 2006 by the Broward Youth Chamber Orchestra. It wasn't really commissioned as much as it was the orchestra's director telling me I could write a piece for the group if i stuck to some guidelines. The inspiration for this work is rather ambiguous, in fact, in the program notes I mention that I had no inspiration, other than the motivating factor to have it performed. It is scored for 2,2,2,2,4,2,3,0, timp, cymbals, gong, bass drum, and strings. As a warning, it is over orchestrated. Also, as a more pressing warning, the recording straight up sucks. Much to my dismay, they guy who was supposed to record it failed to show up, so this was taken from a camcorder that was present. I hope you all enjoy! And like before, I post this for the reviews/critiques/whatever else you feel needs discussing. So don't hesitate to say it sucks. (well perhaps hesitate a bit...;)) The link to the recording is here: Putfile - Musaeus Overture The Musaeus Overture in E minor.MUS

Hey! Thanks for all the posts, I am glad to hear you'll like my music. I appreciate the advice about the orchestration, especially about the oboe stuff. For those who asked/are wondering, I am 18, and I have been composing for about 5 years. When I get all moved into college, I will post some other music I have written. Thanks again for the reviews.:D

Perhaps, I know very little about the English horn, and I knew less when I wrote this, but we shall see, there is an English horn part in the last movement, so I might add it into the others...? Thanks, and do you mean immediately following measure 44? I play cello/made some of my friends(cellists) promises about solos... Thanks, and do you mean at the end in the falling arpeggio? If so, I just thought it sounded more settling to reach the final chord twice (in a sense?). Thanks for the response, especially the specific comments, it is greatly appreciated, more so from a wind player (they usually avoid me... :laugh: ). I hope you can take a look at the latter 2 movements. Thanks again!

I loved your piece! I think it is incredibly well written (although I don't play the piano, so from that aspect, I'd have no idea what to tell you) and emotional. The repetitiveness I find rather comforting, because it is not so repetitive that it takes away from the music, but rather it gives a sense of continuity and the fundamental emotionality of the music. Great job! I'd look forward to buying a CD with this when it is recorded. :P

I really enjoyed this sonata! It is a fantastic piece of art. My one bit of input is that perhaps the 3rd movement is a bit too long and repetitive. I enjoyed all the movements, especially the last, but I think the third just seemed overtly drawn out. Great job tho, that was superb! ;)

Thanks for the advice, one of the problems I have is excessive string writing. I guess its because I play cello and have been mostly in a string orchestra. I appreciate your input, hopefully I will learn better orchestration in college... thanks tho!

Hello, I am new to this forum, but I am pretty excited to get my music out. This is my second symphony, just completed (i.e. before the months/years of editing) last night. Sadly I can't upload the midi's because my Finale will only record the first 16 tracks and then it starts repeating (So the oboe sounds as a violin, etc). If anyone knows how to fix this/has had a similar problem please let me know. So, as a consolation, I will upload all the movement's scores. Any feedback would be great! I fear my biggest issues are in my complete lack of knowledge regarding orchestration and development. Alas, I hope you all enjoy. Thanks! EDIT: I didn't read the rules perhaps as well as I should have, so I've subsequently withheld the why I wrote this from this post. This piece was started in May of 2006. I either had no or can't really remember anymore what the inspiration was. I guess the more I wrote, the more I became inspired to continue. The first movement is in a lose Sonata Allegro form, and is subtitled "The Passion" (not in the religious type passion, but the romantic kind) and I try to evoke a sense of heartfelt loss and romance (For instance, the timpani plays a 'heart beat' if you will, which returns in the final movement). The second movement's form is very lose and rhapsodic-like. It is subtitled "Day Dreams" although, although the first of the two major themes/events, is a rather heavy day dream. The third movement, the scherzo, if you will, also has a lose form (if you notice a trend in lose form, its because I don't know much about how to utilize a proper form). This movement is subtitled "Forgotten Night" because the anxious rushing and confusion evoked by the music. The last movement, entitled "The Early Mourning Sun" (no spelling error) was actually begun as a tone poem to a story I wrote with the same title. However, as the piece grew, I found that the story was not suited to be tone poem on its own account, and more importantly, the music seemed to make sense with the conception of the other movements. The story is basically this: A writer has writer's block and can only begin the story with the phrase 'The early mourning sun...' (in the music as a 2 measure motif, the quarter triplet to dotted quarter rhythm) , he then falls asleep (hopefully communicated in the music as sounding like the he is drifting away to sleep) and has a dream he is a nuclear bomb. (weird twist? perhaps, but it won me $100...) He then experience's the bomb's fear of falling, which it does, and then explodes (big climatic E diminished chord). There is a moment of sorrow (string trio part), he then wakes up, terribly excited/nervous to write down the story, but forgets it, then he kills himself (heart-beat motif from the first movement). P.S. I never said I was a good writer... :P I hope this helps with the understanding, I am still new to this forum so I am trying to get around to posting on more threads. Thus far, I am incredibly impressed with the music here, its a shame things like this aren't wildly more popular! Thanks again for the comment thus far. Symphony No 2 I done1.MUS Symphony No 2 II.MUS Symphony No 2 III.MUS Symphony No 2 IV.MUS