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Yes yes yes :w00t:. You just saved my big Christmas Party at the university Friday night - now I can get wasted without worrying. Hope I'll improve my Saturday-trouble-shooting with a nice hang-over :thumbsup:

hey Nikolas. didn't see your private message until now. "Saturday Night!" That's great. One more day to work on (I hope :whistling:)

:O sorry for being a Danish fool, but in Denmark Saturday midnight can mean both after Friday and after Saturday!! Hehe. Let's do it the easy way (forgetting about midnight and 00:00). Yes or no: Will I be able to post my work Saturday afternoon (say at 17.00) or will it have to be Friday afternoon? ;) Mathias

Hey nikolas. Really love working with this shortmovie. Just to avoid any confusion about 1st of December 00:00 (which can be interpreted differently - at least in Denmark;)), I'd like to find out for once whether the deadline is Friday or Saturday night at midnight? Mathias

Haha:D. Thank you very much. With you guys's nice words, I can take MUCH more criticism hehe. I just want to state that the viola cue in bar 45 proved to be VERY necessary, especially because I had forgotten to give it to the bass player. You know the 3-4 bars before are in free time, so I still believe the cue was a good service for the players :)

Thanks for the very kind critique Mike. It was my first serious string piece ever, so I am more than happy with your comments. I must admit that I'm normally composing normal film music, and I guess that is why I chose to end on a V-chord (keeping tension till the very end). I still like the decision, but perhaps you're right that it doesn't fit the neo-classical style as much hehe :) I'm glad to hear that the performance doesn't sound as bad as in my head - you know, only the composer hears all the wrong notes :). And btw, thanks for helping me out 1 week ago, when I was trying to find out what to do with the double stops (as you see, I only ended up using two, and I think that was the right choice for the piece). I'm actually eager to hear what the "minor problems" in the score was, so I can modify it before I forget all about it hehe. What wereyou excactly thinking of? Mathias

So I finally got the recording. However, I only had one take, so there are some wrong notes. But still a live recording has a lot more energy than my samples the finished score is: http://www.mmmusic.dk/Strygekvintet.pdf and the recording is at : http://www.mmmusic.dk/Strygekvintet.mp3 Thanks for all your help Mathias

Thanks for letting me know. I just came across this website - VERY explanatory: http://http://www.dolmetsch.com/musictheory21.htm I'm going to use the reversed v + - (so it will be played martell

I've uploaded the "experiment" on http://www.mmmusic.dk/FrPhrPhrThr.pdf Please a response on whether it's understandable. Mathias

OK. Tomorrow's the deadline for my string quintet piece, so I really need some help here. Certain passages I want the performers to play accented/marcato, but in the more extreme passages I'd like to get the Martell

That's the one annoying thing about Sibelius - that it doesnt really understand different meters. However, the thing to do to write 12/8 against 4/4: 1) Make 8 8th-notes 2) Tripletize all of them 3) Now "hide" the 3's (on top) and the time signatures 4) Now add new time signatures from "text" You can now work 4/4 against 12/8 (or 3/4) Hope this helps Mathias

Hey. I've really tried to figure out how do it, but I can't seem to find the solution. You should try Sibelius's own help center. They should know it. Good luck

Thanks. I think you are right about the ending. I'll try to sort something better out. Unfortunately we're only allowed to have under 2 minutes of music recorded, so I need to end it in some way :)

So I finally got the recording. However, I only had one take, so there are some wrong notes. But still a live recording has a lot more energy than my samples :D the finished score is: http://www.mmmusic.dk/Strygekvintet.pdf and the recording is at : http://www.mmmusic.dk/Strygekvintet.mp3 Thanks for all your help Mathias --------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey everybody. On Thursday this short piece will be performed by the Royal Danish Chappel. This is my first serious piece for "real" classical musicians, so I am afraid my notation and directions are unclear some places. Please tell me, if you find any "weird" passages. If any of you are string-players yourselves, please tell me if the fast detach