"Remembrance" | Corrections made to original score based on recommendations from the YC Forums! :)

[UncleRed99]

Here's the FINAL final draft of this piece. (Let me know if this format is easier to digest than my normal MO of MP3 + PDF!) 

[Thatguy v2.0]

Congrats dude. Hopefully you've found the forum helpful in finishing this one up. I'm excited to hear more of your stuff 🙂 

[Luis Hernández]

A great piece. It is emotional, with a piano that is not too complicated but enriched by the strings.
It would be nice to put the instruments on the staves at the beginning, although it is obvious when it starts to sound...
The video format is very good especially when it is well edited, as in this case. The pdf is better when you are interested in analyzing something or parts in detail. I think they complement each other.

My only observation is that the strings have a rather “passive” role almost always, as harmonic support or doubling some melodic line of the piano. In the G part, for example, there is some sketch of independence of the strings.

 

[UncleRed99]

18 hours ago, Luis Hernández said:

A great piece. It is emotional, with a piano that is not too complicated but enriched by the strings.
It would be nice to put the instruments on the staves at the beginning, although it is obvious when it starts to sound...
The video format is very good especially when it is well edited, as in this case. The pdf is better when you are interested in analyzing something or parts in detail. I think they complement each other.

My only observation is that the strings have a rather “passive” role almost always, as harmonic support or doubling some melodic line of the piano. In the G part, for example, there is some sketch of independence of the strings.

 

 

Yes the intent was for the strings to be an accompanying role, while also having some small moments of independence, where the story being told is able to be heard through different voices, giving the imagery of multiple people uttering it. 
 

also, I agree with you on the instrument labeling. However, this video was rendered using MuseScore’s “Send to YouTube” function where their website creates the video for you and gives you a download link or the option to upload it directly to YouTube so unless I screen recorded it then edited and published it myself, that’s just the way it wants to be 😅 however at the time I didn’t have any spare time to sit and wait for it to play thru, only for my audio to do “the thing” that it likes to do at the end of the piece 🤦🏼‍♂️ 

 

so I just did it the easy way. 
 

if it’s easier for most other users as well, I’ll stick to the MP3 + pdf upload from now on lol 

[Luis Hernández]

5 hours ago, UncleRed99 said:

Yes the intent was for the strings to be an accompanying role, while also having some small moments of independence, where the story being told is able to be heard through different voices, giving the imagery of multiple people uttering it. 
 

also, I agree with you on the instrument labeling. However, this video was rendered using MuseScore’s “Send to YouTube” function where their website creates the video for you and gives you a download link or the option to upload it directly to YouTube so unless I screen recorded it then edited and published it myself, that’s just the way it wants to be 😅 however at the time I didn’t have any spare time to sit and wait for it to play thru, only for my audio to do “the thing” that it likes to do at the end of the piece 🤦🏼‍♂️ 

 

so I just did it the easy way. 
 

if it’s easier for most other users as well, I’ll stick to the MP3 + pdf upload from now on lol 

 

Yes, I understand the intent of the strings. Perhaps, in a case like this, where they have a predominantly harmonic support role, I would have opted for fewer lines (here there are five in the strings if I'm not mistaken).  But it's a choice, of course. I seem to recall Rautavaara doing something similar in the Piano Concerto No. 3, and it's fascinating.

That musescore function is very handy, the program I use (which I'm very used to, doesn't do it and I have to put the videos together myself).

I usually put here the two versions, the video-youtube version, and the pdf with mp3. If I don't upload the video, then only pdf + mp3. Everything is fine.

 

[Henry Ng Tsz Kiu]

On 3/14/2025 at 10:06 AM, UncleRed99 said:

Here's the FINAL final draft of this piece. (Let me know if this format is easier to digest than my normal MO of MP3 + PDF!) 

This one is definitely easier to digest, as I do that in my posts haha, and a double benefit for using the video on YouTube too. I like this final final draft haha,

Henry

[UncleRed99]

On 4/5/2025 at 12:40 PM, Luis Hernández said:

Yes, I understand the intent of the strings. Perhaps, in a case like this, where they have a predominantly harmonic support role, I would have opted for fewer lines (here there are five in the strings if I'm not mistaken).  But it's a choice, of course. I seem to recall Rautavaara doing something similar in the Piano Concerto No. 3, and it's fascinating.

That musescore function is very handy, the program I use (which I'm very used to, doesn't do it and I have to put the videos together myself).

I usually put here the two versions, the video-youtube version, and the pdf with mp3. If I don't upload the video, then only pdf + mp3. Everything is fine.

 

 

Yeah, maybe less parts would've been better, or, more suited for a small chamber ensemble rather than a full strings group. Imo, can't really go wrong with having more voices to work with / emphasize emotion with 🙂 But to each their own! That's the beauty of music. 

And Yea, I may start to do that now. I didn't really think much of it with this one, as the staves' names are mostly a given for anyone who's even a little educated on music composition or reading scores. 

I also agree with you on the MuseScore functions. However, the video creation function is exclusive to their website, and the score must be uploaded/published to the site first prior to it being able to do that for you. Nevertheless, Muse Group has come a long long way since the day I started using their program, Musescore 2.0, back when I was in high school... Can't believe they're on version 4.5 now, and it's great that there's a very active and alive community of developers on their github who all actively monitor and engage with feedback left on that site. I don't think they've let any issue or suggestion go un-acknowledged even if it's trivial or "stupid" lol 

And the icing on the cake, is it's free! Including the pretty dang solid playback engine + MuseSound VSTs they include for free with it.

(Personally, for the piano and viola sounds in the piece attached to my OP, I'm using Spitfire LABS Intimate Piano and Fluid Viola playback rather than Muse's sounds, simply because once I got my hands on the Spitfire sounds for those instruments, everything I didn't like about the Muse sound versions was able to disappear with ease. If you listen closely, you'll also be able to hear in the piano part, the sounds of the hammers striking and returning to their resting positions, and you'll also hear the pedal being depressed and released. I thought that was an awesome touch of realism.)