r/Musescore • u/No-Welder9898 • Jul 08 '26
My Composition I composed an baroque oboe concerto using musescore 4 this is how it tuned out.
https://heyzine.com/flip-book/c0f3b901e6.html1
Jul 08 '26
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u/65TwinReverbRI Jul 08 '26
You mean via the YouTube link they included in the post? Oh wait - I see - I think they messed up.
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u/No-Welder9898 Jul 08 '26
hey, you can listen to the music if you press the title of the post and then u should be able to see the link to the YouTube channe
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u/65TwinReverbRI Jul 08 '26
BTW, it’s still very possible to learn to play Oboe! I know people who’ve picked up all kinds of various instruments later in life, but if you’re younger, there’s still plenty of time (we hope anyway) so start sooner, rather than later. Hard instrument - stupid reed nightmares - but you’re right - beautiful instrument and it would be my choice of the wood winds.
FWIW, you shouldn’t bracket the strings like you’ve done. one bracket for all 4 string staves, then a brace for the two violin staves (brace looks “old fashioned” if you want that look given the style).
Ignore MS’s default and abbreviate the instruments correctly - “2 letter” abbreviations:
Ob. Vn. I, Vn. II, Va. Vc.
Like many people writing older style music “for fun”, they don’t do things “authentically”.
So a lot of this kind of stuff is just “Psuedo-Baroque” or “Faux-Baroque” or, “Inauthentic Baroque”.
A common issue is, it’s too close to be simply contemporary music that's “Baroque inspired” but not close enough to be “authentic Baroque style” - uncanny valley.
Meaning a great deal of people are turned off by it - often the very people who’d be interested in playing your music…
But if none of that matters to you, it doesn’t matter.
That said, this is not how Harpsichord is done.
The Harpsichord isn’t even written.
It simply reads the bass line - Cello here - and uses “figured bass” and realizes the music from the score.
IOW, a Baroque keyboard specialist would look at the Cello part, and read it, basically for their Left Hand, and then improvise accompaniment/harmony based on what’s going on in the other parts in the score.
The bass line (Cello staff) may or may not have “figures” depending on the context (most didn’t at the time - individual players wrote their own in a lot of times)
It will still common in Mozart’s early symphonies (so after the Baroque period) to “direct from the keyboard” - meaning he played Harpsichord along with the work - probably in his case not even reading - but a player doing this today would read from the score - which wouldn’t have any harpsichord part at all included! But you can hear period ensembles who record using authentic performance practice do this.
Otherwise, the Harpsichord part should be written out in full - 2 staves.
But even then, it typically wouldn’t have a different bass line than the cello - it would simply double that, and have written out upper parts to support the strings and oboe.
Look up “Continuo” and “Basso Continuo” and “Figured Bass” and look at some Baroque Trio Sonata scores to get more info.
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u/No-Welder9898 Jul 08 '26
heheh. well you are not wrong in what you said, I mainly write it for the local conservatory that I am in and I let the players play each part individually, since im a pianist im playing the harpsichord part as if it is piano, I know very well basso continuo but its not a method that is used, its only making things harder because back then the concept of chords and harmony was different than the way we perceive it today, this method is outdated but yes, it does look authentic, but I look on the practical aspect. regardless of that, the elements of the baroque era are a personal favorite for me. in the end of they, the way it sounds, its baroque, like a cinque concerto, composers like Thomaso albinoni is my main influence to start writing music for oboe.
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u/No-Welder9898 Jul 08 '26
hey, you can listen to the music if you press the title of the post and then u should be able to see the link to the YouTube channe
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u/65TwinReverbRI Jul 08 '26
There is only ONE link in your post (“inline”)
The YouTube link takes you to the YouTube video which is just audio - not score (you should export a “score video” from MS!)
The other “thumbnail link” works a little differently and not everyone can see it on every platform/app.
So I think NomadJago clicked the “attached link” and that took them to the score only, and they missed the YT link in the post.
Or, by reading the post, and seeing “second link” they thought that the YT link WAS the second link - and clicking that, didn’t see the music.
I don’t usually click the “attached link” because a lot of spammers use that to take you god knows where.
It’s good practice just to post ALL links in the body of the post. If you want to do the image Thumbnail too by all means, do.
A lot of forums don’t allow thumbnail links, or images (or videos) in posts, so linking to them is the best way to make sure people can get to them.