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Hi! I've just finished writing flute trio (Journey to the Ancient World) in three movements as a composition assignment for my composition class... This piece was inspired from George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children, and melodies and harmonies are based on pitch class sets (3-pitch sets) and their transpositions, inversions, rotations, etc. from various melodic motions of the Crumb's piece... First movement (Time Travel) describes the traveler's feeling of excitement and expectation of the past he or she has never previously experienced, second movement (Dreaming of Conversation) is about the traveler's anticipation of communicating with prehistorical people he or she will encounter, and third movement expresses the traveler's feeling of happiness from communing with those people... In second movement I also added some quotations from Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (Adoration of Earth) motive (C-B-G-E-B-A C-B-A-D C-B-G-E-B-A)... Hope you enjoy this piece, and please don't hesitate to give me any comments!

Hi! I made this short string quartet describing chains of free imagination (as implied by the title "Flight of Fancy") in free form impromptu style... Actually I tried to make sure all multiple stops (e.g. perfect fifth double stops played like guitar barre (in consecutive perfect fifths or perfect fifths switching quickly from/to other intervals like sixths or fourths), violin triple stops in loud dynamics, etc.) are all definitely playable, and I'd like to ask soon my string major friends to make sure there is no other things technically extremely difficult around the whole piece... Hope you enjoy this piece, and please feel free to give me any comments or suggestions 🙂

Could you merge my account into nostalgia, since this is the one I made previously? Thanks for your help!

Actually I accidentally made one more account (Pele) which I will close soon...

Actually I often did feel the music moved on too slow to the climax and thought the audience who listen to this piece for the first time might not feel the direction of music... But I still wanted to keep some static elements like eighth or quarter note chords while gradually building up with wider registers, louder dynamics, extending bass (in the middle section: from D, F, Ab, then to B with note values getting longer), and also chords which get thicker and shorter and become homorhythmic with top staff octaves (and then joined by down-stem chords in the middle staff in mm.33-35) until the very climax... Of course I tried to also change eighth or quarter octaves and chords more so that the audience can more easily hear direction over 1-2 minute span from the beginning of middle section up to the ff climax by using accelerandos, flowing chords (like you mentioned), or some more melodic/rhythmic variations, but they only made music sound changing too abruptly and also much different from previously intended sound... Actually I got the idea of using static and dynamic elements together from Louis Andriessen's De Tijd (The Time) learned previously from my composition class which focuses on the contrast between statis (eternity) and progress (time) which gradually develops through 43 minute long whole piece. I also listened to the piece as a background music for space history documentary show in Adler Planetarium (Chicago), and I was really fascinated with the music describing the chronology of the universe as opposed to the fleeting of time. Although this contrast built up lasted for nearly the entirety of 43 minute piece, I could still clearly feel overall direction after trying to approach this slow paced music in longer term... Actually I could find this type of slow transition music from some other minimalistic composers' pieces too... You can listen to Andriessen's De Tijd here:

Thanks so much for your comments! I just changed the instrument order from orchestra (where woodwinds come first, then percussion / piano, then strings) to mixed small ensemble (Clarinet - Violin - Piano). I'll also make part scores which will be in transposed pitches so that clarinet / bass clarinet does not have any bass clefs... Actually this full score is "in C" meaning all instruments are in sounding pitches, but since this piece has only three instruments and thus doesn't need a conductor, I think I can also transpose this full score so that clarinet / bass clarinet doesn't have any bass clefs nor more than three ledger lines... Any other comments about this piece?

Hi! I just finished a trio piece (elegy) dedicated to 305 victims of sinking accident of Sewol MV in 2014 Sinking of MV Sewol - Wikipedia based on the original melody (inspired from my childhood memories and some Korean folklores)... Any comments or suggestions will be really appreciated! Thanks

Hi! I just made first movement of this piece using harmonic materials from George Crumb's Ancient Voices of Children as a composition assignment of my composition class... Having used his harmonic materials, I tried to create different sounds by applying them only loosely... I'd like to soon make it three movement piece, and will let you know once done!

Hi! I just finished three movement piano piece inspired from trip to NYC few years ago... First movement describes freestyle driving in the morning along the riverside around the city, second movement describes night scape viewed from the observation deck of skyscraper, and and the last third movement describes jazzy feeling (in modernistic style) after jazz concert in downtown park... Actually I can promise all seemingly technically challenging passages are definitely playable after practice, especially some three staff measures with damper or sostenuto pedals (in slow enough tempos)... Hope you guys enjoy this piece, and please don't hesitate if you've got any comments or suggestions... Thanks :)

Yes! I really loved pandiatonic harmonies from Whitacre’s choral music, studying and analyzing his pieces (Lux Aurumque, Cloudburst, Leonardo Dreams of His Flying Machine, etc.)…

Hi! I just completed all five movements of choir piece (Chamber Music by James Joyce)... Any comments or suggestions will be appreciated! This piece is based on five poems (#1, #14, #20, #34 and #36) from the collection, and this is for SATB (with divisi) unaccompanied choir... I'll definitely add the piano (rehearsal only) part once finishing all revisions based on your comments... Thanks so much for your help, and have a nice day (happy new year)! :)

Hi! I'd like to share my another chamber piece (saxophone quartet) for your comments... Actually I wrote this piece inspired by Jazz or Bebop I've enjoyed listening since my childhood... Although this piece is not exactly in jazz or bebop style, I just tried to express in music my feeling after listening to lots of music from Charlie Parker, Dizzie Gillespie, etc... Also, the score is in C but I'd like to make part scores too after getting done with full score version... Thanks so much for your help! Edward

Hi! I just wrote one unaccompanied male choir piece for a short poem (Wild Nights!) by Emily Dickinson... Actually I wrote this for a composition assignment for my composition class 1-2 years ago, but I'd also really like you all to give me any comments... Thanks for your time, and have a nice one! Edward

Hi! Attached are score, audio (midi) and text for Psalm 150 (SATB unaccompanied)... Actually this is revised version of my previous work, and I was seeing if it's good to include this piece for my DMA composition audition this Fall... Could anyone give me any comments on this piece so that I can modify it since there is still few months? Thanks so much for your time, and have a good one!

Hi! Attached are score, audio (midi) and text for Psalm 130 (SATB unaccompanied)... Actually this is revised version of my previous work, and I was seeing if it's good to include this piece for my DMA composition audition this Fall... Could anyone give me any comments on this piece so that I can modify it since there is still few months? Thanks so much for your time, and have a good one!