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Music Polyminiatures: Suggestion to include links to short pieces of yours

Hello (sorry my yesterday's post had a broken link),I created a new YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@Polyminiatures It is devoted to a new music form/genre, which I call Music Polyminiature. The definition of this form/genre can be found in…

Started by Andrew Gleibman in The Business of Composing, The Art of Composition, and Musical Form and Theory

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Song Without Words In B flat major

Hi,This is a recording of myself performing my latest work for solo piano. Song Without Words In B flat major Best Wishes, Saul Saul Gefen · Song Without Words In B Flat Major

Started by Saul Gefen in Music Analysis and Critique

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I hope this isn't the wave of the future for entry fees

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How strictly do composers expect performers to follow the score?

[Not sure which forum this belongs in; please move if appropriate.]I thought I would submit for discussion a question I've been wondering about, which is how strictly do composers (I mean of course those who write for actual performers rather than…

Started by Jon Corelis in Music Analysis and Critique

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Musical Polyminiatures: Please add links to your miniatures

Hello, I defined a somewhat new music form, or genre, called Music Polyminiature, and more generally, Music Polycomposition. This is described in the first video of channel https://www.youtube.com/@Polyminiatures (Please press READ MORE in the…

Started by Andrew Gleibman in Music Analysis and Critique, Music Technology, and The Art of Composition

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Symphony no. 15

My most recent composition is the 15th symphony so at least numerically I have managed to equal Shostakovich! Had a lot of problems getting this started (though not as many as trying to write something new at the moment) but eventually it started to…

Started by David Owen in Music Analysis and Critique

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Thanks Giving Song

Happy thanks giving all!https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=Vk98buS4eFY&list=OLAK5uy_msC604HpK2tlqCkqqUax8SPbGER5UTJTsAli

Started by Ali Riza SARAL in Music Analysis and Critique

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What if anything do you call a C Major scale with a flat leading tone, i.e. C D E F G A Bflat C?

Started by Jon Corelis in Musical Form and Theory

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Orchestration of Beethoven's string quartet c#-minor op. 131 - mov. 6 - 7

This quartet is considered by many as the greatest string quartet ever written. Leonard Bernstein recorded a magnificent performance with string orchestra of which he said (if I remember correctly) that it meant to him so muchlike no other…

Started by Gerd Prengel in Music Analysis and Critique

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Symphony no.3

Hello all,This is my 3rd Symphony, composed in 2019.https://youtu.be/ItF49Rbyk44As always, VSL cube mixed in Mir pro.Hope you enjoy it. Asaad

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Posted by David Jephrey Young on August 12, 2022 at 1:32pm

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Posted by Jon Corelis on March 19, 2022 at 10:01pm

A performance of my composition Three Fairy Songs by flutist Beth Ratay as part of the Boston New Music Initiative's Prismatic Congruency program is available on YouTube at:

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THE MORABA' DANCE (رقصة المربّع) | FOR SOLO VIOLA

Posted by Wajdi Abou Diab on March 13, 2022 at 10:07am

A contemporary piece for Solo Viola Composed by Wajdi Abou Diab and Premiered by Noemie Chemaly

"The Mouraba' Dance" Opus 13C is a piece for solo Viola, based on the traditional ancient Arabic rhythm called " Al Mouraba", that was used in…

Little Irish Airs collection + back to composing

Posted by Samuel Kin Hong Po on May 16, 2021 at 11:56pm

I have been taking a bit of a break from composing and arranging Irish airs for the piano as a little exercise for myself.

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