Piece for Winds

I have been working on this piece for months, but now I don't know how to finish it, I just don't want to leave an ending that doesn't make me happy, any suggestions?

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Great piece!  I happened to be doing some reading about the Vikings while listening to it and I have to say - it fit pretty well!  I don't want to give your piece a programmatic context that wasn't intended though.

As for the ending - I think you've come up with plenty of melodies that excel at continuing the piece on and on and the piece seems to be pretty well connected.  To end the piece I would recommend to make a piano partiture of a melody which finalizes the piece.  Then there's the harmony.  Do you want to end the piece with a V - I?  Maybe end on a half-cadence?  That could potentially give the piece more of the character of a cliff hanger.  Then there's the plagal cadence which you're probably not interested in for the character of this piece.  What I would recommend for the piece, and something I also happen to do in many of my pieces, is ending on the subdominant.  Or rather the tonic chord over a subdominant degree in the bass.  If you're interested in what I mean, and how this sounds, listen to my "Scherzo and Variations for Piano and Orchestra".  I think only common-practice period pieces really end at all appropriately on an authentic cadence.  But your piece sounds at least slightly more modern and ending on the subdominant might be preferable if you like that kind of sound.

Good luck and thanks for sharing!

Peter

Thank you Peter, I heard your Scherzo and I understand what are you talking about, I like the idea, and I’m gonna try, the other thing is, do you think is a good idea make the end in a loud moment of the piece? Thank you for take time to heard my music, and please tell me what text you were reading, I didn’t think I’m a programmatic piece but, the Vikings sounds epic! 

7 hours ago, jcastanedaamaya said:

the other thing is, do you think is a good idea make the end in a loud moment of the piece?

Well that's also up to you - theres many possibilities.  To say that the piece has to end either quietly or loudly can also be an oversimplification.  You could end the piece with a decrescendo to pianissimo and then suddenly hit them with a fortissimo chord.  Or do the opposite - make a loud cacophonous finale and follow it with a pianissimo sustained chord.

7 hours ago, jcastanedaamaya said:

Thank you for take time to heard my music, and please tell me what text you were reading, I didn’t think I’m a programmatic piece but, the Vikings sounds epic! 

I also participate on writingforums.org which works much like this forum works but with creative writing.  That's where I happened to stumble onto a work-in-progress about the Vikings and an alternate historical timeline where the Vikings settle part of North America.