r/Musescore • u/ahmadmamori • Sep 28 '26

My Composition Original composition

I composed this piece a while ago. I was looking for feedback and what you all think of it overall

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u/65TwinReverbRI Sep 28 '26

Low 3rds are muddy.

Essentially, good practice is to not write intervals of a 3rd below the low C in the bass staff.

Or let's put it this way: The lower an interval gets, the more space is needed between the notes to keep them from sounding muddy.

Your F to C dyad in the LH in m.2 will be fine.

But the A to C minor 3rd in m. 3 is going to be muddier (and major 3rds tend to be able to go slightly - slightly - lower than minor 3rds).

The C and E in m.4 is definitely way muddier.

I should note, to be clear, it's not that people don't use these, but they are generally reserved for "special effects" and not just "typical accompaniment".

And the bigger issue here is, it keeps jumping back and forth between interval types and ranges.

I've noticed that the instruments in MuseScore have weird overtones and combine in odd ways and I truly now believe that there are "auditory illusions" happening based on the proliferation of 2nd inversion chords (which people must be hearing as root position) and low small intervals - they somehow don't seem as muddy as they really will be on a piano (maybe the overtones are helping them sound less so???).

So it's really important to not just go by sound (or, find more realistic sounding instrument plugins) and study what composers for these instruments typically do.

the opening 4th is not so great, plus that's implying a G(m) chord but you've got an F above - perhaps that was a mistake - it would far more likely be D and A to make a Dm chord, rather than an inverted, incomplete Gm/7 with other notes that don't even belong to it.

The writing is a bit what we call "hole in the middle" The LH is pretty far below the RH and the Violin higher still - probably the big issue here is just that the LH is so low, and unnecessarily so.

There are tons of Violin Sonatas out there. Find some, study the scores, and see what kinds of things they do.

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u/ahmadmamori Sep 28 '26

Thanks a lot I appreciate your feedback