Well... After all you have listened to my first movement 'Uneasy Peace', the logical thing to follow is a war... And that is what I tried to capture in the second moment. I think I didn't do bad...
So, here it is: the second movement of the War Symph
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Fred Zinos thought I could have a look at another Rilke poem after "How can I hide my soul from thee" so I have taken up the challenge.
Hope this is worthy.
Read more…To those whom I have been talking to in the chat: here it finally is... Crescendo.
To everybody else: here it is... Crescendo.
What am I talking about? Part 1 of a 3-movement symphony. Part 1 is called Crescendo... You may guess what happens in this
Read more…How can I improve, expand upon and neaten this, as I may submit it to competitions or an undergrad program? Are the double stops on the bass playable? Thanks.
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I'm working on a Piano Trio for performance in about a month, and my target length is around 5-6 minutes. However, I haven't been able to come up with any ideas on how to expand my development section enough.
I have attached a live pe
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I am working on a short piece called "Resurrection" for marching band that will be part of my ballet also. It could be used as either a warm-up, opener, or production number. Here are the brass and woodwind parts only. So, what percussion
Read more…Hi folks - I recently decided to write a short concert band piece over a period of less than 2 weeks, which may not have been wise. It's currently in rough draft form, and I'd be interested to have a few more sets of ears critique it.
I have a few
Read more…Note: Audio Files are not verbatim. I didn't even know this section of the forum existed, or I would have been using it this whole time! I want to neaten my portfolio, so lets start with these pieces. I know some instruments are omitted, like viol
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Fellow member on this site Tim Marko and I have collaborated on a short piano piece, "5 of 1, Half a Dozen of Another." Tim wrote the melody and presented it to me as a complete work and then I wrote the harmony for it. We decided t
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I'd like to present my song with my own lyrics and would be grateful to get feedback on the lyrics.
I understand this is a composers forum, not a poetry club :)
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I used to walk along the crowded streets
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This was my first attempt at an orchestral piece. Could not get a decent sound file so left it to languish.
Sibelius 7.5 with Noteperformer then Studio One for "balancing". My first use of automation BTW.
Couldn't make it fit in 7MB so link to my d
Read more…I decided that I needed to go "back to my roots" this spring before I started on the ballet and trumpet concerto, and it feels just like home. My compositional background is rooted in the traditions of concert bands, wind ensembles, drum and bugle co
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I'm not sure where to start with this one, I began it last September and have kinda hit a dead end in the middle of Act 2. During a lull like this I usually go back and listen to what I've done earlier but my ears are tired and I'm getting nowher
Read more…Per recommendation of some forum members, I'm posting this work-in-progress.
Currently, the first section (up to m.94) is relatively satisfactory to me (though of course things can always be improved), but the second section, from rehearsal E onwards
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I am new here and excited to be a part of this forum. I am working on a series of pieces. The one I will post here is currently titled "H"
This is nowhere near finished, but I'm excited to share something with all of you. This is my firs
Read more…This is the first draft of a piece I have been working on for High School and College concert bands. Its for large bands which means 4A-6A high schools could really be the only bands to play it at the high school level.
Im in the fine tuning phase o
Read more…This piece is in Through-Composed form. I know some of the themes are a blatant imitation of the soundtrack of 'Titanic' and 'The Little Mermaid', but it seems to flow very well with my original melodies. Besides I am still finding my way. Finding ne
Read more…I've been trying to work on a new orchestral piece (I had posted this originally as a violin concerto but I decided that didn't work well) and I've been finding myself out of ideas on how to continue this for the past few weeks. I came up with a seco
Read more…These two pieces for concert band (with very random titles at this point) were composed using two very contrasting methods.
One was composed completely on piano, and then arranged for orchestra. The other was composed for the band instruments from th
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I'm working on this short piece for marching band that can be used as a ballad. I'm wondering what percussion I should use and how to use them. I also included a version of the song that I made with a Daw with sonatina symphonic orchest
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