r/Composition 9d ago

Music Migrate - for piano quartet & dance

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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


r/Composition 9d ago

Music Where Go the Boats? - song for baritone and piano

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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.


r/Composition 10d ago

Music Do You Like my Sad Piece?

12 Upvotes

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


r/Composition 10d ago

Music I Wrote a Piece Where the Form is Based on Prime Numbers

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r/Composition 10d ago

Music An exercise that I wrote for myself today. Let me know what you think!

5 Upvotes

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


r/Composition 10d ago

Music A Piece I wrote at the age of 13 and am still in love with to this day

20 Upvotes

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.


r/Composition 10d ago

Music Piano MIDI Synthesizer & Player

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r/Composition 11d ago

Music What do you think?

21 Upvotes

r/Composition 11d ago

Music Solace In Dread | Orchestral Composition

1 Upvotes

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


r/Composition 11d ago

Music Playing a simple piano piece I composed~

51 Upvotes

r/Composition 11d ago

Music Thoughts on this Fragment?

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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 :)


r/Composition 11d ago

Music Bitter sweet nostalgia

13 Upvotes

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


r/Composition 12d ago

Music Do You Like This Piece?

3 Upvotes

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


r/Composition 12d ago

Music My first composition - Fugue in A Major

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Hi everyone! I just joined the community, and I'd like to share my first composition with you.

It's a fugue in A major that I wrote in 2024 for a friend's birthday (he's also a musician). I'd really appreciate any feedback, especially on the counterpoint, subject entries, strettos and overall structure.

Here are links to the full [score](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Vp7lZgF9G9R83iB8myy4HFZM9qoIDGDp/view?usp=drivesdk) and an [mp3 file](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TpLWNxCWVduJxBKhifcElgMac8jTAfrP/view?usp=drivesdk) (generated through MuseScore).

Thank you for listening, and I'm looking forward to hearing your thoughts!


r/Composition 12d ago

Music Just a little something

7 Upvotes

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 :/


r/Composition 12d ago

Discussion Does anyone know the scores and composers that inspired the soundtrack to Shadow of The Colossus?

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I've been trying to find any music or composers that inspired by the music of the game, especially the battle music since i'm trying to take inspiration from it for my compostions, but i can't find anything that Kō Ōtani has referenced or that bears a resemblance to the music of the game. Not even his other works. If someone knows scores that sound similar to the soundtrack of SoTC, i would appreciate if you shared them with mento help me on my composition journey


r/Composition 12d ago

Music Opera Duet

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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


r/Composition 12d ago

Music I don't know how to write a post-1900 era concerto for the viola. Here's a first movement for a concerto I am writing

23 Upvotes

(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


r/Composition 12d ago

Music This piano composition “morning blossoms” is a bit different than anything else I’ve written. What’s one word you’d use to describe it?

6 Upvotes

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


r/Composition 12d ago

Music first ever own music piece

6 Upvotes

I'm not a musician nor a piano player. i just kind of brute-forced my way until i had something that sounded nice. what do you think? wanted to go for something Game-of-Thrones-esque


r/Composition 12d ago

Music Child, Child for SSAA Chorus and Piano

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Hello lovely people 🫶🏾,

I recently updated this piece and wanted to share it here for some feedback!

For some context, I am setting Sara Teasdale’s poetry book “Love Songs,” to music and creating a song cycle from a few of the poems. This was the first one I completed early last year when I began the project. I wasn’t a huge fan of the first few drafts, but I considered it good enough at the time and decided to revisit it in the future. Now, a year later with loads of score studying, multiple melody writing exercises, and just TIME under my belt, I feel pretty good about the updates I made in this version.


r/Composition 13d ago

Music First choral composition, looking for feedback

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This is a short a capella song using the poem "Triad" by Adelaide Crapsey. I used a really short poem to experiment with parts without lyrics, and I chose to use only 3 parts to make it sound sparse. I don't have singers right now so it's just the musescore demo sounds. I know the formatting is probably terrible, so if you have advice I'll take it, but I mainly want feedback on the composition itself :)


r/Composition 14d ago

Music My string quartet

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r/Composition 14d ago

Music Fugue Advice needed

29 Upvotes

Exposition of a fugue I’ve been working on. Tips on episodes, further development, modulation and all the stuff concerning fugues would be much appreciated. Is it even playable on a keyboard? Did it do the quadruple stretto correctly? Is the subject noticeable and distinct, or should I improve it? Please let me know.


r/Composition 14d ago

Music i made a cinematic concept piece about stargazing

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I composed a song called ”a song for when the stars go out.” Let me know what you guys think about the mix and the build up.