FINALE: http://www.box.net/shared/4batvisgk8

PDF: http://www.box.net/shared/ib5hodmdc8


Cool piece I came up with.


Here's a nice little review of the piece I made:

When you listen to this piece Imagine a Lake at Night. The waters calmly rushing by. No sound except for animals around. Peacefulness. This piece is one of my latest and one of my favorite pieces I've composed.This is a good piece for everyone to try. It's hardest parts though are the tuplets vs. triplets and the musicality required to successfully execute this piece. It also has some fast cadenza-like parts.

Very nice.

Can you play it? I'd like a better recording than Finale... It would make the presentation and the thread more appealing as well. And another idea. Get a pdf driver (just google the words) and make the score into a PDF file, which can be read by everyone, instead of a Finale file, which is not read by anyone. (I have Finale so I could read it and listen to it).

It's a fun piece and it seems very nice to play on the piano, without being too difficult. It's interesting and has the right length for me personally. The arpegges work very well and the chord progression is also well executed!

What is rather bad, I'm afraid, is the score. And there are many objective issues to mention about the score. A cleaner score will have a better chance of someone performing it.

I hope you don't mind me going through a few details:

* alligement. Dynamics usually are in the same "line". And one needs to think in advance about this, especially for dynamics which are very close. There is actually no clashing of anything whatsoever which is great!
* When you have crescento it's advisable (not 100% bet let's not go into this) to put the starting AND the ending dynamic. Page 2 you have a big crescento accross two systems and nobody knows if it will end to F, or FFF, or sFz, or whatever...
* Your spelling at some points is a bit problematic. The eye does not like a mixture of flats and sharps at the same chord, for example. 3rd page the chords. C#,F#and Bb! It is actually C#, F# and A#, an F# major chord... same at the second system...
* Tempo indications always go above the first staff, not in the middle. So "a tempo", should go above the staves in the 3rd page. 4th page accel. as well.
* It is a romantic piece, so 4th page this dimished chord going down I would, personally, notate it in 1 system, in smaller notes, completely freely, for the pianist. I think that this is what you mean by this short passage, but with 16ths it's hard to picture it in your head. If you've seen Chopin and List scores, where the full system is filled with notes and you hear the pianists going mad on the piano, that's the idea...
* 4th page again. Allegro is rightly on top, but needs to be bold. Rubato, etc, also need to be above the top staff (mentioned it earlier). It's important to decide with yourself which elements will be Italics, which Bold[/b] and which different font altogether. Usually tempo markings are in bold[/b], and dynamics (cresc, subito, sempre) these kidn of things, are in Italics.
* You might need to move the top system in 4th page a bit further down. The tuplets go further above almost out of the page, and I'm not sure if it will either look good on paper, or if will even be printed and not croped off.
* Bar numbers would be nice as well. I'm having trouble reffering to you all the time, page, system, hands, etc... It would be much better to go "bar 8 has this..."

I really hope you don't mind and you find these comments useful.

Thank You! that Means a Lot to Me...Usually People Think my Music Sucks...

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I listened to it just now, I only discovered recently .MUS was a finale file! I'm afraid I didn't really enjoy it on the whole that much, but I think I'm just too unappropriated with classical music, there were some sections I enjoyed and I envy anyone who can write out a score like that so perfectly.

I think the main thing that bugged me was the unsynchronised hands at a time when it really didn't bring anything special to the music, and forgive me some notes sounded a bit random, I'm only trying to help please don't take this the wrong way.

It is good though and I see a future for you in composing! Good luck.

cool thanks Ill post my fourth nocturne shortly

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for goodness sake - post a pdf!

ok pdf uploaded

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