A contentious question, but I've tried to deal with it in a way that respects all people whatever their preference.https://youtu.be/nT6MTAW33T0?si=93B-qYi-8_8EoDd0
Read more…6 months into my composing journey, I've finally attempted a short allegro movement for the first time. Is it normal that it's SO much more work than a slower piece?
It's the opening to my 5th String Quintet, and includes also includes double stops fo
Read more…I couldn't find a thread about the upcoming holidays, so I decided to create one. I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
I wonder, have you written anything Christmassy yet? Although I usually don't share my work, I feel I shouldn't ho
Read more…As promised to a few of you, here, finally, is my reworking of this 60-year old early Beatles song.
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Hi - I've just bought VSL Solo Voices, and thought that a good way to learn to write for voices might be to make an unusual cover of a well-known song. I've chosen "If I Fell" by The Beatles.
However, as the cover is so differently arranged from the
Does anyone resonate or identify with the way of composing described in this video -
If anyone would like to participate in this journey in any way (details in the video), it would be great to hear from you. If not, hopefull, we'll have more videos
Read more…This is my latest piece - my 10th since starting composing in the summer, and my first (short) symphony.
It's really different in style from any of my other pieces, and I'm not sure what style it fits into. If someone asks what sort of music it is, h
Read more…This is my latest piece - my 10th since starting composing in the summer, and my first (short) symphony.
It's really different in style from any of my other pieces, and I'm not sure what style it fits into. If someone asks what sort of music it is, h
Read more…I've started this thread so as to not further derail Guy's thread re intuituve composing.
This post is a result of my and David's discussion about the use of technique whilst composing, i.e. using craft. I said I'd post some examples from how I use t
Read more…Have you ever written music for Halloween or created music suitable for the occasion? This is your chance to scare the hell out of us with your creativity.
Read more…I humbly present the 3rd and final movement of my Piano Concerto No 2, a boisterous jaunt through a fugue, which becomes a gigue, slows down to an arabesque type dance, and then becomes an all-out romp, and that's just the preview! Hope to lift your
Read more…I've recently completed my magnum opus, a setting of the HC Andersen tale The Little Mermaid. At over 1hr 7 mins, it's the longest thing I've ever written but is perhaps also the best and certainly the most characteristic of the sort of thing I'm mos
Read more…Quite a few years ago, I experimented with three short songs to German Romantic poets. Initially I had no software which could sing text so didn't pay that much attention to the text setting but decided to go back to these works and lay the words out
Read more…Right now, I earn my living setting music for pubishers, mostly parts. I need to use whatever software I am told to use. At the moment, composers are sending their scores to the publishers mostly in Finale and Sibelius, but with the recent sunset of
Read more…Disclaimer: This is not my work nor am I associated with it in any way. I stumbled across it while browsing fugues online, and it's just too cool not to repost here:
I've always wanted to write a rock fugue, or any fugue that isn't in baroque/classic
Read more…Someone in the upper echelons should probably check out Ahmed Khan, whose friend request message veers several miles into "spam bot" territory. I accepted purely to see was in their profile.
Read more…I'm working on a piece where 99% of the 8th notes are staccato. What's the best way to notate this? I thought of writing sempre staccato but not all notes are staccato, only 8th notes (and not all of them, though the overwhelming majority are). Longe
Read more…Hi everybody,
Here is my csound work.
Just a clue, a word spoken is not said again.
Best.
Aşi R+
Read more…Hi, I liked the new look of this forum. I can read it easily.
Please find attached my experimental work: In the mist
Cheers.
Ali R+
Read more…Latest original work for piano
Caprice In C sharp minor
Regards,
Saul
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