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
Has anyone here by chance read a book called Blink: How to Think without Thinking? Joel McNeely said it helped him get faster in churning it out. Of course that doesn't mean it will work for everyone, and I'm kinda busy to be taking on a new book, bu
I typeset my own scores and always will, but I hate doing parts, though I know how to do them properly. I'm wondering what people around here do? Do you do everything, or hire out for parts and do your own score, or hire out for parts as well as scor
My piece Callisto is being played on the Californian classical music station Classical KUSC on Friday 3rd, around 8am PDT on Jennifer Miller Hammel's morning show (4pm GMT for UK people, and google will sort it out for anyone else). If there's enough
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
I am conducting a questionnaire for my dissertation on the topic of instrumentation and orchestration in composition and I am hoping to find people to take part in my survey who compose/produce music for film/TV. If that’s y
For me, producing a useful score - one that could be submitted to professional directors/orchestras - is hard work. I start on paper in short score; then move it into a daw. By then most if not all the orc
I've never bothered putting up my limited forays into solo piano music up on the web before as I was never very happy with my endeavours. And piano music is anyway the most commonly posted form by amateurs. But the latest set of four works seems to m
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
I know there probably isn't any standard, but just wondering what are the usual paper sizes employed for a conductor's score with 16-18 staves? Something that's comfortable to read and not too spaced out that it's difficult to pick out the lines at
I just posted a playlist of this three movement piece, but I can't see how anyone could find it to listen on this site. So, I'm bringing it up here as well. (If you know how to find a playlist, it is on this site.) A brief description:
For what I believe to be quite obvious reasons, I am reluctant to accept this petition for new membership. I'll invite the group to vote on this one. Please opine and justify your answer:)
Hi, I started today the orchestration/completion of the exposition of an abandoned Beethoven draft for a a triple concerto apparently for violin, cello and piano, which predates the familiar Triple Concerto or at least a concerto for violin and Cello
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
It's a New Year and at this time, we're all supposed to look optimistically to the future, difficult though it might seem with all the nonsense that's going on in the world. So I offer this antidote which is among the most tuneful and hopeful of all
Who guesses the original composer/work of my new ochestration? --> https://gerdprengel.de/orch.mp3 Any remarks about this orchestration I would appreciate before I create a YT Video with the score ... Gerd
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?