Gabriel Carlisle Posted July 19 Share Posted July 19 (edited) Hello this is my first time composing a symphony and i wanted to know if this was any good. Comment all the good and bad please I'd love any feedback! Also please know that this is unfinished so there are certain things that don't make sense just because I havent gotten to it yet :). OH and this is using musesounds so my dynamics and such might be an issue. Edited July 19 by Gabriel Carlisle MP3 Play / pause JavaScript is required. 0:00 0:00 volume > next menu Symphony No. 1 in D Minor "Majesty" > next PDF Symphony No. 1 in D Minor %22Majesty%22 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Carlisle Posted July 19 Author Share Posted July 19 If anybody has some tips for dynamics I think thats my number one issue. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterthePapercomPoser Posted July 21 Share Posted July 21 Hello @Gabriel Carlisle! Quite an ambitious work you've taken up! I don't see any problems with the dynamics, but for some reason your string tremolo ties aren't being played like they're tied but are instead being re-attacked at the beginning of each new measure. Maybe you could try messing around with the rate of the tremolo itself? Or you could lower all the note values and the tempo by half, preserving how the piece sounds but having it be displayed in 4/4 instead of in cut time (which it seems like it's more in cut time right now despite being in 4/4 because of how fast it's being played - it would probably be conducted in 2 by a conductor since the primary subdivision of the bar seems to be the half note). As to the music itself, only the 2nd theme right now seems to me to fit the title of "Majesty". Although the march-like section in the middle with the timpani alternating between tonic and dominant sounds like a dark kind of majesty, as if an evil leader has just crowned themselves emperor. Maybe there's also a sense of an unwanted majesty where a leader has risen to power who has no desire to be king/queen and doesn't know how to lead well. The music has a certain inevitability. I like it! Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriel Carlisle Posted July 21 Author Share Posted July 21 Thank you! I noticed that the notes are like that. Do you know by chance how I can fix this issue where the notes are in correct 4/4 time? I’m using musescore 4. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaspard Posted July 26 Share Posted July 26 I think the orchestration is pretty good - I kind of agree with Peter that while the first group of themes are very capably written and do have drama, the second part (somewhere after the 2 minute mark) sounds more "majestic", it definitely gave me a Bruckner vibe. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jqh73o Posted August 11 Share Posted August 11 (edited) The part from 1:19 sounds like a Spanish procesional march, I like it Edited August 11 by Jqh73o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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