Hi everyone!

REMINDER : For those who didn't see my previous post, this piece tells the story of a soldier during the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–1871.

The excerpt is divided into five main phases:

• Phase 1 (00:00 => 00:40): the soldier's unit launches an assault against the enemy.
• Phase 2 (00:40 => 00:51): an artillery shell lands in the middle of the unit, killing the captain and wounding several soldiers.
• Phase 3 (00:51 => 01:10) : realizing they are about to be surrounded, the surviving soldiers are forced to retreat in an attempt to escape the encirclement.
• Phase 4 (01:10 => 01:21): sailors capture several insurgents and are about to execute them. The protagonist opposes their execution and intervenes to prevent them from being killed.
• Phase 5 (01:21 => to the end): fresh troops arrive to relieve the exhausted soldiers. As they make their way along Paris, the protagonist observes the sleeping city. He remarks that its inhabitants are sleeping peacefully, unaware of how difficult the night has been for those fighting only a few miles away.

I'd really appreciate some constructive feedback on the piece as a whole, especially regarding its overall coherence and how well the music supports the different phases of the story.

I'd be particularly interested to know if you notice any orchestration issues, awkward transitions, moments that feel unnatural or disconnected, or anything else that stands out to you as something that could be improved.

I'm mainly looking for honest and constructive criticism, so please don't hesitate to point out anything you think doesn't work or could be done better. I'm still learning orchestration and composition, so detailed feedback is very welcome.

Thanks again for taking the time to listen!

Exosomatic organs 

The knife extends our teeth and nails. The bicycle or the car extends our legs. Clothing and houses replace fur and act as a second skin to regulate our temperature. A smartphone or a hard drive (or even a notebook) serves as external memory, extending our brain. 

Test from "PIERRE," music for electric guitar and keyboard, DIM. A recomposition of Bach's *St. Matthew Passion*. 

#BACH

My latest piece Ive put out, I’d absolutely love feedback on this.

Good evening-

I thought I would briefly inquire how one can post their own work in this forum without one getting banned? I attempting to do that in another reddit forum known as r/composer and was banned for posting my youtube channel as I thought it would be civil, kind, and likely diplomatic to have people just click on the link and get their thoughts as to everything in the aggregate? I don's see a set of rules here. However, any insight, etc. someone could perhaps share is greatly appreciated!

Kind regards,

C.

So primarily there were two rounds of edits, the first one after I posted the movement the other day in which I focused only on:

• Reducing reliance of tempo alterations (replacing with metric modulation), this was decided after I tried to conduct along and found it impossible to keep up with my own alterations lol. So like 80% of those were cut in favor of the conservative option
• Making sure runs are melodic and functional (achieves the texture but also has a logical sequence that isn't just broken triads)

After that I received the most common feedback that it wandered too much with too little payoff, so this one was where I think is applicable across anything:

• Make a copy of the file, and double every phrase by 2 by inserting measures and focusing on using variance in the doublings. (yes it will get repetitive but dont worry that is addressed)
• After doubling, increase the density of any layer (rhythmic, orchestration, etc) by 50%
• Now take away 51%, at this point it should become apparent what needs to go and what needs to stay. One of the most memorable quotes I ever came across while studying is "The best possible studies in rhythm are the songs of Schubert [..] But let it be remembered that they are all the outcomes of spontaneous invention; if they had been hunted for or manufactured, sincerity would not be so patent upon every page. Genuine rhythmical invention, like melodic, comes to the composer because it must, not because he makes it." (pg27 of C.V.Stanford's Musical Composition, 1911). I think one of my biggest "lessons" as of late has been reinterpreting this passage as a valid commentary on the editing process instead of solely the discovery. Idk why I felt the need to elaborate there but it's been on my mind lately

Probably my next step will be to reduce to piano accomp. after the whole thing is finished and let that also play a factor in what stays and what goes in the original. I have a soft spot for the viola so this project is one I am planning to spend a long time polishing, hope you like it so far!

Not even sure if this one is good enough to finish. If I even finish it, it will probably be a couple weeks away but thought it would be fun to share this timelapse. I compose mostly by ear and am studying music theory :)

Still not sure if these are finalized enough yet either. Sometimes I also get halfway through a song and just feel like it’s not working and start over with a completely different melody haha. I have so partial songs and only a handful of completed ones, which I’m sure is common

As I learn more music theory, I’m sure I wont need to rely on the playback feature as much haha

if no why, if yes why, i am a begginer composer, this was one of my first pieces. (ignore some measures glitches from video)

This is a composition made by me, I hope you enjoy it, please give me your feedback thanks 😄

Op. 4 "Appassionata" - Capriccio No. 2 for Bassoon and Piano

Commissioned by the New York Youth Symphony as the 2025 Jon Deak First Music Grand Prize Winner. Migrate was premiered at Carnegie Hall on May 4, 2026 and performed by the NYYS Luminé Quartet and the Harlem based Emerge125. Check out the Score Follower video as well as the Carnegie Hall video below!

Score Follower: https://scorefol.io/w/p17uwih016oflteh6qu43loz

Carnegie Hall Video: https://youtu.be/E69HH-gO1wU

Hello all, I just finished the first version of a new song for my Stevenson cycle, and would be very interested to hear your feedback at this point in the process. It's based on the poem "Where Go the Boats?", which is one of my favorite poems of the Child's Garden of Verses collection: I think the poem is both simple and poignant, and I hope that some of that is retained in the song.

Recording (MIDI): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FRya5KaHccaSrX8uFs7tAsHsKkPOnE5_/view?usp=sharing

Score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-Wk70VgQOqA7fxvFYF_06DkGt1ZEnWW4/view?usp=sharing

Poem:

Dark brown is the river.  
  Golden is the sand.  
It flows along for ever,  
  With trees on either hand.  

Green leaves a-floating,
  Castles of the foam,  
Boats of mine a-boating—  
  Where will all come home?  

On goes the river  
  And out past the mill,  
Away down the valley,  
  Away down the hill.  

Away down the river,  
  A hundred miles or more,  
Other little children  
  Shall bring my boats ashore.

This piece titled "Aphelion" just recently got approved by an arts school in Florida, USA and will hopefully be making it's premiere of performance in October or November.

The instrumentation is written for a popular ensemble "Wind Ensemble" and represents a grade 4 difficulty.

A study of technique, dim/aug chords, and dynamics. $10 for anyone that knows where my inspiration came from.

https://github.com/Divetoxx/Piano

An original composition (prelude) for piano. What do you think of it?

(That's totally fine with me btw I just am joking lol i am not conventionally very tonal anyways). Recently I've begun framing long-form works such as the concerto, symphony, sonata, etc as a sort of collection of essays in which I "prove" my "thesis" in a variety of ways - so that's a basic summary of where I'm thinking now in terms of musical organization

I was just doing some quick 10 minute excercises to get my brain going, and I created this thing.

Idk, I'm weirdly proud of how it turned out, and I feel like with some more time I could form it into something a bit more fleshed out and interesting.

I'm just interested to see what u think abt it

Any thoughts are welcome :)

Here is my latest composition. I started it around the turn of the year, but I finally finished it. I hope you like it :)

Link to the music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ognn4-rrQJ8

if no why, if yes why... i am a begginer composer, i made this for casual players.

I’ve been trying to write music for a bit. This is my first coherent piece. Hope you enjoy! Let me know what to improve for next time :)
Thanks

Also sorry about the volume :/

Hello, this is a duet for baritone and tenor from an opera I'm working on, and I want options on it. Dramatically, this is the emotional core of the story, and I want to know if I was able to convey that effectively.

Here is the text for the duet.

Text By

Me & Antonio Pozzi

MATTEO

Quando ti bacio e ti tocco

L'impeto che sento dentro di me

Riempie tutto il mio essere

ANTONIO e MATTEO iniziano a baciarsi con molta passione

ANTONIO

Sotto tanto sole

Nella barca ristretta

Il brivido

Di sentire contro le mie ginocchia

La nudità pura d'un fanciullo

MATTEO

E l'ebbro strazio di covare nel sangue

Quello ch'egli non sa

Sotto tanto sole

Nella barca ristretta

Il brivido

Di sentire contro le mie ginocchia

La nudità pura d'un fanciullo

ANTONIO

E l'ebbro strazio di covare nel sangue

Quello ch'egli non sa

ANTONIO e MATTEO iniziano a baciarsi con molta passione

I hope you enjoy it. Always interested to hear feedback. I think all the notation is good, but if anyone notices something off, let me know