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actually i don't think that this piece is quite as unplayble a you all make it seem, although the jump for the right hand at the end of bar four from the E to the A# might be a toughie. it is true for one that many etudes composed by romantic composers (chopin and especially franz liszt) are much harder. look at the scores and listen to recordings of liszt's transcendental etudes 1, 2, 4, 6, and 11 :w00t: , and you will notice some similarities between them and your etudes. Also, you might try looking at chopin's etude op. 10 no 1. and oh yes, for some really freaking big jumps :wacko: look at liszt's paganini etude no 3. (la campanella). these are the websites where you can get the scores and recordings all for free. http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/single_li...?composer_id=24 http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/single_li...m?composer_id=4 http://www.classicalarchives.com/ (you have to get a free membership for this.) I think that this etude has planty of potential and i really think that you could learn a lot from these pieces. Just my humble suggestions. :whistling:

Master Qccowboy, you have interprested some scriptures wrongly. :D The law did not merely refer to the literal laws in the old testament, but what the bible advocated as a whole, INCLUDING AMENDMENTS IN THE LAWS MADE BY JESUS. Jesus and his disciples worked on the sabbath, healed people on the sabbath, and peter was made to eat "unclean food" and preach to Gentiles. The laws made in the old testament (like those you quoted, as well as the laws of sacrifices) focus so much on the cleaniness of the literal body because the Saviour had not yet come. When Jesus came, he paid the ultimate sacrifice to cleanse us once and for all, so all these laws (those regarding sacrifices and abstinence from particular foods, clothes, e.t.c) become redundant, as Jesus has liberated us.

Simply put, if a piece of music is honestly meant by a person to glorify god (in any way), it is pleasing to god. If the piece does not, it is not pleasing. God does not look at the material, he looks at our heart, what we meant a piece of music to be. If we meant a piece of music to glorify god, god would be pleased with it, even if it was atonal and sounded like pure crap. If any of you have read the ending of the short story "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde (an atheist) you would know. And about the point that many athesists lead excellent lives while some Christians are moral blackouts: you should learn that you should NEVER JUDGE A SYSTEM BY ITS ABUSE. and anyway, humans were never meant to be perfect. God wants us to honestly come to him in out imperfection and HONESTLY ask for forgiveness. That is one of the fundamental pillars of the christian faith. Someone who sins, knows it, and does not ask for honest forgiveness is not a Christian.

i'm almost halfway through liszt's transcendental etude no 11 (my personal favourite) and have just made it past the section with all those bloody arpeggios (why must he make so difficult :innocent: ) and am coming to my favourite part of the etude--the one with the thunderous chords.

just putting forth a few opinions... :happy: And who, may i ask, is doing al the upgrading, renovating and enhancing? Technology cannot surpass us. When it is equal to us, we simply will not be able to improve it any more. And computers cannot create; they simply follow a set of rules called a program that is WRITTEN BY HUMANS. Everything that technology does is ultimately our doing, as we are the ones who create the technology and make it do what it does. anyway, regarding scores..... :innocent: i believe that having a professional--looking score is very important. Yeah, i know music is meant to be heard, not seen, but just because a house is meant for living does not mean we leave it bare with just the necessities, do we? Even as you reply to this, you are probably typing at a computer that someone bought not only because it worked well (which is the main consideration) but also it did not look like a piece of scrap metal. You are probably (hopefully) wearing clothes, not a mouldy brown loincloth, although in terms of practiality both do the same thing...same goes for scores. Humans are impractical things, you know. That is why we have somethings called "aesthetics"

anyway, i really liked this work, although i do think that some more rythmic variation would be nice.

the problem with the beginning trills is that they are C-Db trils, not C-D trills as they are supposed to be. Sibelius has this nasty tendency to put in default trills that involve two notes a semitone apart. that is why the later trills (E-F) sounded fine while the earlier ones did not. :)

ohmygawd! i mean, wow. this composition is really conveys a sense of quiet despair, and i must say that i think that the chords, contrary to being static, add a certain depth of melancholy to the piece. And it really sounds like it is being played by a person, which makes it all the better. why dont you publish your work, chopin? (yes, i know i am not qualified to say this)