Just a way of introducing myself. On the old forum I was known as Dane - my stage name for a long time - times that fade increasingly into the past so I'll use my "real name" here (which means having my user id changing if that's possible.
Hello everyone! Today I bring my project over the past couple days. A piece I have dubbed "Melodic Magic". I was trying to capture a mystic feeling, with a spooky edge for October. For this project I made it in FL Studio, using BBSCO Discover as well
A piece long since finished and recorded, but have at it if you don't like it and enjoy if you do. It broadly follows the strictures of fauxbourdon, a triadic form of medieval choral harmony where - very generally - the top and middle lines unison to
Hello all! To celebrate the official onset of autumn, I made this little video for one of my songs. It is greatly inspired by the musical pieces of the 1940s, especially jazz instrumentals. It's not perfect, but it was so much fun to do and put toget
I've never worked on a piece of music for as long as i've worked on this. I hope it shows, and I appreciate any and all feedback. The score in the video is still unedited, so apologies for any difficulty reading. I've been a member on the old forum f
Hey gang, I posted this at the tip end of the previous incarnation of this site. A few here may have heard it. It is in a Rondo form, loosely. There is a tinge of 'modern' I suppose, but in the end it succumbs to a variant of rocknroll :) just for fu
Barring experienced humans willing to put up with my stupid questions, this has helped me more than anything else. Almost all major instruments a composer is likely to be writing for, with video and audio detailing the
This piece is done and dusted but seeing that it has cropped up in another thread, I thought I might as well post it. I'm always happy to hear good, indifferent and bad critiques from fellow composers so I hope some of you can find the time to have
I wrote a short, heavily bleak piece for piano at the end of 2021 and the wonderful pianist Erica Sipes included it in one of her live sightreading streams. I can't add .pdfs to show the score, but her performance raised some issues in my notation wh
I guess I'll post this again - I posted it on the old version of the forum a little while before it disappeared. My first attempt at writing for wind quintet, a piece I finished a couple of weeks ago.
I've posted this on the previous version of this forum before, but since all past content appears to have vanished into the ether, I thought I'd repost this to get things started again. Hope that's OK.
