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Comment by Aaron Siegel 4 hours ago

So many new people in the Composing Group, it is really hard to keep up!  Welcome to all of the new members.  As you can see, this is a pretty lively group.  We encourage you to jump in with some of your music if you can share it, or else just let people know that you are listening to their music and enjoying it.  

Comment by Aaron Siegel 4 hours ago

@Neil  I am so glad that you shared your new choral work.  It sounds wonderful.  So great hear a quality live performance of your music.  Midi is great and everything, but aiming for a real performance recording is always the best way to hear the music.  I am struck that this piece has so many of the things that great a cappella choral music has--a strong sense of harmonic development and room for the singers and the music to breath.  Could you send along the words so we can get a better sense of what the singers are saying?   I would love to follow their story more clearly.  Bravo!

Comment by Pablo Ochoa Carpinteyro 5 hours ago

@ Boitumelo

Well, you know? when I am composing most of the times I don't finish because, I don't like that much or simply I am stuck , the occasion when  I finish a piece is because I hear the melody on my mind and I like it, If you think that your piece its no good, well maybe you must stop and check it out from the top, and ask yourself: Why am I putting this section here? or these notes, or maybe this sharp here!! Hope it helps, let me know, and I'd like that you can give me a feedback of my piece that I posted its called "Padre Nostro" and when you finish your piece I gladly would hear it,

Greetings from México!!

Comment by Boitumelo 5 hours ago

@ Majorie Lattimore

Thank you!

Comment by Boitumelo 5 hours ago

@Pablo Ochoa Carpinteyro

Well it's not completly finished and it's something unique in the terms of when it changes during the whole piece. Sort of like a mash-up.

Comment by Majorie Lattimore 6 hours ago

@Boitumelo It doesn't matter who likes your music. Most of the time you won't even like your pieces. Just finish it and over time you can improve it or maybe you'll find a new appreciation for it. These things take time. I have an orchestral piece that I started when I was ten years old and it's still not finished because I'm never happy with it.The point is, take your time and if YOU like your piece then be proud of it and don't pay attention to how others feel about it.

Comment by Pablo Ochoa Carpinteyro 22 hours ago

@Boitumelo 

I'd will like to hear your piece :) 

Comment by Boitumelo on Saturday

Do ypu have any advice for me? (I'm a first time composer. This is my first piece.)

Comment by Boitumelo on Saturday

hey people. I'm almost done composing my piece on my piano but I kinda get the feelng that it isn't a good piece. My family doesn't think it's nice and i'm not sure other people with either.

Comment by Raphael Saphra on Saturday

@Zach

I really like what you're doing with those harmonies in the symphony, and you do a really great job with polyphony and contrapuntal writing. 

Some suggestions I'd mention are:

You could do more with thicker textures. You have so many melodies going on, which is a good thing, but you don't seem to utilize the entire orchestra at the same time. Even at the end, with that run, you don't have the clarinets or oboes playing. 

Don't be afraid to double. Especially since you have so many individual melodies, it really add to the texture.

In the second to last measure, that Fermata should be written into all of the parts. Even the guys with rests.

Also, there was really good development of ideas, but I think some figures could still use more. The piano figure in m 101 could really turn into something nice in my opinion. 

Either way, it's a great piece and keep on writing!

By the way, have you written anything large scale before the symphony?

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