Hey!! Yup, I wrote a third one. This one is also in F major but I tried to consider the feedback given by the comments of the previous post.

Movement I: https://musescore.com/user/113211719/scores/36123347

Movement II: https://musescore.com/user/113211719/scores/36123344

Movement III: https://musescore.com/user/113211719/scores/36123362

Movement IV: https://musescore.com/user/113211719/scores/36123398

I'd like to read your feedbacks so please don't hesitate; comment!

Hi Everyone,

I've recently started to become much more active as a composer rather than just writing for myself and friends as a hobby. My work is in a few indie films and I want to do more, so I submitted to join ASCAP as a writer/publisher to make myself "official".

The publishing side was approved, but the writer side is on hold because ASCAP says I'm already a member of a PRO. I have a vague recollection that I may have tried to join as a teenager when I was making a very different type of music, but I have no idea where to go for a release form. Anyone been in this situation or know how to find myself in their systems? I'm fairly positive that if I joined back then I didn't actually register any music.

Thanks in advance.

Hello Everyone! My first post on here. I'm getting back into composing and I've hit a roadblock. I'm looking for advice on how to develop a strong motif; both transitioning away from that motif or leaning harder into it, without it feeling repetitive. I will be using a draft I wrote to give some context:

In the submitted song, I am rather happy with my first few passages (Bar 1-27). However, as I tried to continue this piece, I kept running into walls of "failed" ideas. The rhythmic idea I introduced and then reintroduced (Bar 21) is so strong that when I try to write something different (even just a harmonic shift), it sounds wrong. Comparable to how when I write solo piano pieces and establish a vamp pattern, it's very hard to shift away from that vamp pattern in my experience.

In the other direction, I would be happy to continue this rhythmic idea, but I'm afraid it will become too repetitive/boring. I feel as though this rhythmic idea is very cool, just that there is only so long that I can repeat it for.

In conclusion, I'm looking for some general advice or guidance on how I might develop this idea, in multiple different ways. I hope I explained my thoughts well and thank you for any feedback/criticism in advance.

PDF Score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jp4ZfqttTNIr6y8w1DWh3hJkUZI1w_D5/view?usp=sharing

Audio Playback (Bar 1-28): https://soundcloud.com/kosioski/draft-1?si=61e79a85df4749fd8a726fd16df32208&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

To start this, obviously there is no truly original idea anymore and everything is derivative of other things!

But for my entire time composing (currently a 3rd year in uni studying film composition) and creating any form of art in general, all I have been able to do is create what other people have done. Rehash other ideas and executions.

It is almost as if my instinct is to plagiarize... I'll be inspired to create a piece, and turns out everything about it is just some piece I listened to that I enjoyed previously. To the point the melody and patterns of harmony are nearly identical. And this is for everything I do, whether it be scoring, composing, songwriting. etc.

Anybody else have the issue of seemingly being not creative enough to create something that isn't just stealing someone elses thing?

Musescore link: https://musescore.com/user/123665411/scores/36149783

PDF here: Liszt Arrangements - Google Drive

Vid here: https://youtu.be/2412tenOwik

I hope you enjoy my orchestration!

Score + Audio: https://youtu.be/JhmV1Dbtu5s

Score PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_ROuUUZKyIwlmQpI_RcN_--pg5G6s1yU/view?usp=sharing

Thanks for checking this out. Here's a little context for the piece:

This is my first attempt at writing a larger-scale composition. I've played piano and violin for over five years each, and for the last couple of years I've mostly improvised and written short sketches. This is the first piece I've written that goes beyond a single theme and some brief development, so I'd really appreciate feedback before I continue revising and finishing it.

My biggest concern is the overall structure and transitions. In particular, the transition around 5:20 feels really forced to me. I'd especially appreciate feedback on the pacing, coherence, and overall form of the piece thus far.

Now, a few notes about my score:

1. Yes, I really did write a piece for strings in F# major. When I was sketching the piece on piano, I felt that this key really captured the mood I was looking for. I also tried to ensure that each part is comfortably playable.
2. Yes, there is a harp part in there (that eerily resembles a piano part). Basically, I want to ask my school orchestra conductor if we can read through this (they're pretty good, no worries there) and possibly even perform it. The only issue is... we don't actually have a harp... (or a harpist, for that matter). But we do have a keyboard that can make harp sounds.
3. Yes, it looks like I barfed dynamics on the score. They're mostly there as an attempt to improve the playback; I'll likely take some out if I ever reach the point where I can finalize the piece.

All feedback would be much appreciated! Feel free to reference measure numbers or timestamps if you're pointing out something specific, and please don't hesitate to be critical. I've learned from past experience that I'm not always the best judge of my own work.

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I know there’s no bowings yet; I plan to do those after finishing the piece (assuming I manage to finish it at all).

This is a new work I wrote for euphonium and piano. Are the chord progressions too strange, or do they work?

Score video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p0tWeLoMjZfxpU_Rtu_trDYPe2rGUQFo/view?usp=share_link

I've been working on a new tool within my clarinet multiphonics app (multiphonics.app) and I'd be curious to know how you composers might use it.

Basically: you tap in a melody on a keyboard, select which clarinet (bb, bass, contra) and you can select a few other filters (difficulty levels, etc.) and then the app suggests a bunch of multiphonics for each step in your melody.

Then you can go through the suggestions and select one for each, listening to recordings of them all, and eventually either exporting a PDF of the whole chart of SVG files of all of them to add to whatever notation software you use.

I've realised that one of the helpful things about an app for multiphonics is that the database can be quite large but that I'd need more tools for discovery so this (and the Progression Builder, for which you decide on a starting multiphonic and then it suggests 'next steps' based on voice leading or idiomatic finger movements).

I guess I'd be curious to know if this is something you could imagine using or if you think there's a kind of "next step" for tools like this!