I didn't think this topic would become an issue in my composing -- after all, what could be more basic than notating accidentals? -- but recently, while working with a couple of pianists to record my pieces, it came to my attention that my notation i
I don't have any. I'm starting the discussion with the hopes that others do.
I'm trying to get back to writing in earnest, and I'd like to start working more in a notation program, for the ease of editing (no erasure smudges, you know the ones) and p
one of the forms of music least often heard on forums seems to be choral music -- especially of a sacred nature.The situation is not helped by the fact that only one company, EWQL, has actually bothered to create choirs that can sing free text in a s
A year or so ago, I happened to be looking at old MIDI files and discovered something which went under the cryptic title GIT_NOCT. I have no idea why. Anyway, this turned out to be one of the first things I ever wrote and I put the badly played MIDI
My biggest theme this summer was the " completion" of Schuberts Unfinished symphony on the basis of his sketches!! Here the Scherzo with an orchestration of the sketched main part and a new composition of the Trio with Schubert's sketched melody:
I listened to your prelude in your playlist, but I didn't like it. So I looked you up and found your website, just to be sure I don't like anything you wrote. I like to be thorough. Then I heard your "Ho Chi Minh City for Ensemble". Now THAT I really
I fairly recently completed my latest chamber work. Like with the 12th, this finishes with a consolatory adagio as its heart, though this time it's a bit more complex and starts with a variant of the main motif of the first movement which is highly c
It's not exactly weird, but I used to specialise heavily in retro chiptune-esque and electronica music for games. It's the one part of my skillset and musical approach that I've completely stopped working in - I still would if hired, but to be honest
I'm certain whether this is a discussion, blog, article, or whatnot. Eventually, we'll have to categorize discussions in delineated topic areas, but for the moment, there doesn't seem to be pressing need.
my most recently completed work actually came to some extent in two parts -- and with some hesitation as the actual nature of the piece. I was originally inspired by a work about "Rain" by Steve Elcock to write something weather-related and in due co
I'm sure I've posted this here before, but - to maximally incentivise christmas cheer - here's my SATB setting of the medieval carol "I Sing Of A Maiden", recorded by ORA Singers. https://youtu.be/tuJU1XaWY8k?si=6kQGVT3HYuteuNbP
Yesterday I wrote a miniature instrumental Christmas "carol", to add to the three I've previously written. It's only a minute long, with an intentionally simple arrangement. Any comments would be quite welcome!
I've been on a Shostakovich binge recently, prompted by this video about the second movement of his Eleventh Symphony (a work of his I hadn't known before this year). And yes, it includes a fugato section, Teoh...!
Back in 2015, a bunch of us eclectic composers from the old forum got together to do a collaborative project: a set of variations on Bach's BWV 140. Each volunteer would take the theme of BWV 140 and write one or more variations on it, in any style,
Hi there i have to mix this orchestral piece for my uni project. Anyone have any suggestions? Also is there a similar sounding track that I can reference? I'm guessing a chirstmas movie maybe?
I'll start posting the full movements on here eventually, but I've finished (in the protracted finalising of parts and scores now) a large symphonic suite of four tone poems written for the Galilean moons of Jupiter. In a fit of inventiveness I named
