JeremyL

Is this just a matter of convenience for the performer? I like it better having a bit more control over the dynamics though >< Well, some of the dynamics was because Finale is uncooperative, so... eh. Thank you for the second look!

Thanks for everyone's reviews! With the help of my teacher and the director of music and arts in my district, I edited this a bit. Check it out!

After a long hiatus from this site and composing in general, I finally composed something I think is worthy to post up here.I'm gonna be entering this and my Second Minute for my preliminary audition for Interlochen, actually. I doubt I'll get in, but I only listed Composition as my third choice, so eh. Prelude Prelude

This is a nocturne in the key of D-flat major. Obviously, has lots of Chopin influences, but I was also influenced highly by listening to the works of Wieniawski.I've been working on this and a few other pieces for weeks now, trying to refine and redefine my musical "sound." What do you think?By the way, this piece was indeed, inspired, by walking through a graveyard late at night and contemplating how the families and friends of the deceased must feel whenever they visit their dead father's, mother's, cousin's, best friend's, life partner's... etc. So this is both a bittersweet goodbye to the dead, and also an uplifting promise to see them one day again. "Reminiscence"

For an improv, this is very long. I'd ask you if you could try notating it from the recording, but since it's like 22 minutes long I wouldn't dare. XD I must say, this is a very good improv. Yes, you had a great piece of work to start off with, but you continued a high level of skill throughout. Congrats on that.

Congrats to the both of you! Do the rest of us get to know our placings? Lol.

I'm using Windows. I'll try reinstalling Finale, thanks for the advice. No, this is the computer that I have Finale installed on. The black box tends to appear when I'm inputting notes.

It's actually in between 50x50 and 200x200, I'd say 125x125. It's square, no border. Yes, my cursor is in its middle, I think. The cursor doesn't appear, it's just the box. No, it stays in Finale, never goes into Google Chrome or anything. My pointer is the default.

I was in the middle of composing the largest-scale piece I'm making (if anyone's interested, a string orchestra, harp, wind quintet, glockenspiel, and triangle) and suddenly the cursor turned into a large black box, obscuring any view of the surrounding staff or notes. When I restarted Finale 2009 several times it didn't go away. I've had this problem with Finale Notepad 2008 as well, but when I restarted it the black box went away until I alt-tabbed to another program and came back, which is when the black box came back again and I had to save and restart FN '08. Anyone else with this issue? Or, even better, any solution?

Especially good theme at the third section (the Piu Mosso). I liked your orchestration. The solo part is very virtuosic, but a good soloist with time to practice can do it. It's not harder than most of the Paganini concertos' movements. Nice counterpoint in the cadenza-- very string-like writing in there, and other places. Good entrance of the strings at 318. Something was a teensy bit off at 333 in the oboe part. Before the ending was a great lead-up. The section of sixteenth note sixtuplets especially demanded an entry of the theme. ;P it'd be VERY Mendelssohn violin concerto-ish, though. You're not going to end with every instrument? Most endings of such virtuosic pieces are either quiet and reflective or loud and bombastic, never in the middle. This piece as of now, without a cymbal crash yet with such a leadup falls in the middle. You didn't mark divisis for the strings in the score; unless you want an extremely awkward third position tremolo over three strings in the first violins and such other scenarios, I suggest you add as needed. The repeats of the solo violin's material right after the initial statement might also want to be divisi'd up when they're extremely difficult double stops for the first violins. And give the seconds and violas some love too! Lol. Very good work here, definitely much, much better than my concertino. Some spots are a mite troublesome but they'll be easily fixed.10/10 and favorited.

Congrats to Jimmy! Thanks for the review, I might try fleshing it out sometime later to make a full-blown piece... doubtful, though.

Either would be great. And yeah, after I realized I made the second thread I was like... "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU---- self-evidence ftl"

http://forum.youngcomposers.com/t27181/a-petite-waltz-for-jason/ There's my new one. :D

Can you (chopin) make a checker that looks to see if you've posted the same exact post you're about to post right now, and if you have, sends you back to the edit post page with a message that says something along the lines of "You've posted this already"? I have a pretty crappy mouse that clicks the "post reply" button several times, and oftentimes I end up with a doublepost fail. Thank you for reading, whoever has. :)

... fail doublepost