ChemicalReaper

The descending scales with the tremolo violin. Yeah, was actually pretty pointless. I just needed something to help lengthen the piece out. Originally, it was going to be another section. I guess I just left it in their either to: a) lengthen the piece a bit, or b) because I forgot to remove it.

Thank you. The way that I have always understood it, and the semi-joking/semi-serious thing that my instructor has always told me, is: Once you learn the rules of music, you can go ahead and break them all. Maybe I'll come back with a piece that uses the Inverted Picardy at the end of a movement to lead into a more sullen movement and this 'oddity' will become more popular? Or maybe I'll be the only person to really find a use for it, and everyone else will continue to say "it's ridiculous" or "hey - you can't do that!". Thing is, you can criticize me all you want for it; I'm going to go ahead and do it anyway ;)

Music is done perfectly, very tastefully used, not overdone, and the 'operating table' scene didn't use music that sounded overly cliched (so again, very tasteful). Sounds and looks awesome. When can I buy a copy?

The theme(s) from :15 to :30 are really good - I think you should make a separate composition expanding on those themes.

I could definitely imagine your compositions being used in films. (Is this the EastWest Symphonic Orchestra that you used? Every time I hear music using it, the software sounds more and more awesome!)

Very, very short sinfonietta - one movement, just over two minutes long. MP3 file is on the NewGround's Audio Portal Comments and feedback greatly appreciated :) Thanks! (I'll post the score up tomorrow... it will be a Finale 2009 .MUS file.)

Other under-appreciated composers... I think I'd have to add Antonio Salieri (contrary to popular belief, his music isn't that bad... it's a shame, though, that barely any of his music has actually survived) and Henry Purcell (Dido and Aeneas is a pretty cool opera - "Dido's Lament" is one of my favourite pieces of music ever written!).

I think Sousa is unappreciated. "Stars and Stripes Forever" is a brilliant composition. Sure, it has one of the most common themes for the US, but how many people do you think could actually tell you that it was a theme of Sousa's?

Fine with me. You need to make sure they know who Graham Chapman is first, though!

Um... maybe. I dunno. lol. I think I have numerical dyslexia :(

Okay, I'll be the one to use it so craftily, you won't even notice it's been switched to minor! I won't stop you :)

Then, "Inverted Picardy", I name thee "Graham Third". Why? Because I'm the only composer who'll use it! XD (And I'll figure out a way to use it craftily as well, in order to avoid weak endings.)

Well that information's only dated by about... 300 years :P With all this post-modernism stuff, I would have thought somebody would have named it by now. PPS - I only wrote in parallel fifths once, and that was for an a capella piece in organum... which is... like... really traditional (read: 'old') tonality. And actually, parallel octaves can really emphasize the tonic (read: 'hey dude, what about flutes?')

Haha. Maybe I'll be the first composer to utilise it on a large scale. It will be especially useful for my Requiem - the 'lighter' movements (like 'Lux Aeterna' and 'Communion') will be in a major key, but to remind people that it is still a Requiem, they will still end in minor.

Finale 2009 is pretty solid. I used Finale 2003 at school for 4 years, then got used to Finale 2007 at school, and now recently purchased my own copy of Finale 2009 (promotional discount, yay!). I don't think I want to waste any more time trying to get used to yet another new layout. One of the biggest 'additions' from Finale 2007 to Finale 2009 was probably the fact that they moved a whole bunch of options into different menu categories... I still haven't got used to where things like the 'transpose' option are now located!