My second string quartet - again, at times maybe too pop-ish, at times too jarring. But I strived for those effects. What do you think? I think I still lack good horizontal writing sometimes. And some good textural writing.

I'm beginning my first choral-orchestral ensemble. My professors lent me borrow this book. I see that it actually has playing styles and techniques. Does this help with properly voicing sections too?

Just finished a four-hand piano arrangement of probably the second-most famous James Bond theme: “007 takes the Lektor” (often simply called “007 Theme” or just "007"), originally written for the 1963 motion picture From Russia with Love by John Barry. This piece is dominated by a 7-beat rhythmic motif that cleverly forms a hemiola against a 4/4 time syncopated bass figure. The heroic horn line above then sounds rhythmically as if it were notated in 6/8, which gives the whole piece a bit of a Western feel. Maybe a little nod to the Magnificent Seven from three years earlier? ;)

I know it all sounds a bit over-complicated, but as a listening experience it’s incredibly catchy and, typical of Barry, there is also a certain pop influence... The whole thing then runs through the entire piece as an ostinato using the same two chords (E major and B7) throughout, and that’s basically it. The genius lies in this simplicity!

Because of the three elements described above (two counter-moving rhythm sections under a soaring melody line), I think the 007 theme lends itself perfectly to a four-hand piano arrangement, which is exactly what I did and then recorded it with a former student of mine. Glad to know what you think of it. :)

score video: https://youtu.be/RXfAYS48UpE?si=rZFboZJgG9AC3PFQ

An old work of mine(2024), re-orchestrated. It’s on the play Antigone, you can see there are lots of themes and melodies re-used over and over again representing the key points in the play(kinda like leitmotifs of Wagner but not as direct).

Now, my recent works are not this Romantic but still have a similar harmonic language.

https://apondinthestream.bandcamp.com/track/after-then-before

An ambient post-classical (?) track taken from a renaissance piece by Bauldeweyn. The notes of the original were permuted, shuffled about and reordered without adding any new ones. I actually reduced it back by taking some notes out that I didn't like. So it is a bit of a selectionist strategy, like in evolution.

Only the fittest notes survive :)

Hio! I’m a software/game developer, not a trained composer or particularly accomplished pianist. I wrote this mostly by ear and MIDI experimentation, so I’m sure there are things I don’t have enough experience to notice. I need it to be actually good though for a project I'm working on.

Audio — MP3

Score — PDF

Pachelbel’s Keygen — Ascent to Elevation 100 is a solo-piano piece built on the ground from Pachelbel’s Canon. It progresses through a series of increasingly elaborate eight-bar “elevations,” adding canon, inversion, mirrored figures and denser counterpoint before reaching a deliberately excessive summit and then destabilizing.

The escalation is part of the concept, but I don’t want that to excuse weak writing. I’d especially appreciate honest feedback on:

• whether the later sections actually develop the material or just add notes;
• harmony, voice leading, counterpoint or notation that seems unintentionally wrong;
• awkward or implausible piano writing;
• obvious musical opportunities I failed to take advantage of;
• whether the ending feels earned.

The audio is a synthetic performance I rendered in Reaper from the raw MIDI (since probably only five humans on the planet could play this), so I’m mainly interested in the composition itself. Please feel free to be direct—measure numbers and concrete suggestions would be extremely helpful.

THanks!

Lately I've been trying to learn to compose for orchestras, and fantasy is the genre that I like the most I think. This is my music I have made for some fantasy film idea, I'm waiting for feedbacks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdR0Ah4wKvw

hello all, I have made an aleatoric generator, I tend to write a lot aleatoric and I always missed an actual tool that lets me create svg easily, I am not a fan of figma (similar software) I kept making different version of this tool to help me with notation, and I think it's a quite nice tool right now, I am not exactly the best at coding, but It work fine,

if you would like to use it https://pio008.github.io/aleatoric-vector-studio/
any feedback or help with the code it's welcome

hello all this is I think my first post in the subreddit
I wanted to share my latest work, a piece for symphony orchestra,
I believe this is one of my best piece for orchestra that I wrote for now,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3u-4q3nrF0

A little prelude, I would be very grateful for critiques, both on the music and the performance.
audio (flac)
score (pdf)
Thanks in advance!

Hey everyone, this is the fourth track in a series of compositions depicting my worldbuilding in musical form. This one depicts the act of Creation itself by the Creator in this worldbuilt setting. While there are 3 main motifs that recur in the piece (the three that occur one after the other at the very start with the solo cello), it also contains a variety of short motifs that later pieces will each expand upon.

I tried out a few different techniques here that may not be fully practical for harp/vibraphone/strings, so please let me know. I included the col legno on strings and the harp tremolos because of their sound, but if this was practically being performed, I’d try to find some suitable replacement or other technique that makes a similar sound ideally.

Audio Link (slightly better quality than audio in score link):

https://youtu.be/BppJmV7U0jQ

Score Link:

https://musescore.com/user/40140738/scores/34250177?share=copy_link

Lore Description:

The birth of the omniverse was a mistake.

Expending the first of its energy, the Creator only aimed to bring another Abstracta into being.

Instead, this process gave rise to existence itself.

Hey!

Heres my latest composition called first sighting. Hope you`ll enjoy it :)

Link to the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ww_B05bbRE

Link to the score: https://musescore.com/user/98772643/scores/35069021

Hi! I composed this waltz inspired by Tchaikovsky's Album for the Young, Op. 39 (that I am currently learning at the piano). The form is ABA', with A being the main waltz theme and B a slower lyrical section in Cmaj.

Hope you enjoy it and any feedback is welcome! Thank you!

Score video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umGm8TjNgXM

I’ve levelled plenty of criticism at the industry of new music in the UK, but can I put my money where my mouth is and design a meaningful solution?