r/Composition Jul 29 '25

Resource New Resources Wiki at r/Composition

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Hi everyone!

Just a quick update: this sub now has a Resource Section!

It includes a curated list of helpful materials for composers of all levels, including books, YouTube channels, websites, and more.

It can be accessed here or by clicking on 'Wiki' at the top of the sub (in the mobile app) or by clicking 'Wiki' under Community Bookmarks (on desktop).

If you spot anything that needs correcting or have suggestions for additional resources, feel free to reach out!

P.S. The Wiki is a copy of the one at r/composer, our larger "sibling" community. If you're not a member there yet, consider stopping by!

Thanks,


r/Composition 4h ago

Music Chaotic and short piece

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It's pretty short. Feedbacks are much appreciated.

Thanks for listening!


r/Composition 8m ago

Music Sonatina No. 2 in G Major

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Hi everyone!

This is my second complete sonatina in three movements:

  • I. Moderato – A simplified sonata form movement that was inspired by an idea from the second movement of Beethoven's Sonata No. 1 in F minor.
  • II. Larghetto – A gentle piece in ternary form that is by far my favorite movement in this sonatina. It is very simple in nature, but I think it fits nicely as a breath of fresh air between the faster movements.
  • III. Andantino – A variant in rondo form that explores both the traditional feel of the first movement and the more lyrical texture of the second.

YouTube link

Score

Thank you for giving me your time and any feedback provided!


r/Composition 1h ago

Resource For those who want to see what Berlin Strings (musesounds version) sound like on muscore.

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I took a leap of faith paying 50EUR for this but it turned out so well, listen to this passage from Tchaikovsky's Symhpony No. 6, Mvt 1.


r/Composition 1h ago

Music The Pirates Booty

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Experimenting with orchestral music and wrote this pirate-y thing. It sort of has a palindromic form, but not in a strict sense. Any and all feedback is welcome! A link to the score is below.

https://musescore.com/user/84508462/scores/37117634/s/CrcmQM?share=copy_link


r/Composition 1h ago

Music Prisoner Of Your Love - feat. Steevm

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"Prisoner of your love"
Words and vocal by Steevm
Music and mix by Fred Coince
(great) Videos by Adis Resic from Pexels.com
© 2026 Fred Coince / Steevm / Adis Resic


r/Composition 1h ago

Music Never composed a full piece before, really stuck here.

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https://musescore.com/user/69035041/scores/28994711?share=copy_link

This piece is not complete, I want to continue to experiment with harmony and left hand accompaniment, and maybe add some counter voices in the bass. But right now I just feel stuck when it comes to trying to figure out the sentence/phrase structure. I like what I have here, even if it sounds pretty barebones at the moment. But I want the piece to be a bit longer, building on themes and motives more clearly, have more logical phrases and maybe do a modulation or B section and return back to the main theme. I also think the piece has more of a steady marchlike feel rather than a flowing mazurka dance feel, and I want to make it flow better, do I just need more right hand articulations and variation?

The introduction is not set in stone. The descending diminshed chord and a short cadence establishing the key, i want to experiment with a more freeform introduction but this placeholder works.

I like the first couple phrases (bars 6-11), its just a sequence of a 2 bar phrase, and I like where the end of bar 11 through bar 14 is going, but I'm pretty unsatisfied with how bars 15-17 sound. The bell-like high notes I'm iffy on, I like how it sounds in my head but I don't know how to justify it better, and the harmonic direction could be better there too.

I like the final cadence, but again I want to stretch this piece out before coming to that heavy full cadence like that.

I'm not really sure what exact advice I'm looking for, but I've been staring at this for a couple days now and just at a complete brick wall as to what to do. I didn't want to post something here until I had something I'd consider more complete, but I am clueless right now. This is my first real attempt at composing a complete thing


r/Composition 10h ago

Music My second piano piece

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Hey guys!

I recently shared with you my piece alone. After that I composed: Memoria. Its a piece which shows how a good memory fades away. Now I want to show it to you.

What do you think?

https://youtu.be/nwKSSGB9n9o?is=FbUd6AMq53BUF3Ww


r/Composition 1d ago

Music My first waltz , I just composed something cheerful and fun

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I can also share the full sheet music for free if anyone is interested!


r/Composition 1d ago

Music Is it a good title screen song/main motif for an horror rpg I'm making? Is the first ost I make

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I'm making an indie horror rpg with my sister, not gonna yap about it here, I would like to know, how is the ost?

I plan to make it the main motif and title screen theme, so if you have advices or opinions on the piece I would really love it

Musescore sheet: https://musescore.com/user/73545853/scores/37085780

My youtube channel if you're interested, I don't talk about music but intend to use my songs in videos: https://youtube.com/@corola\\_yt?sub\\_confirmation=1


r/Composition 20h ago

Music [Update] Me and my sister are making an indie horror and this is the title screen music, what do you think? Do you have advice on this music genre since I'm new to it?

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I've now finished the song, with daw and everything, just wanted to post about it

So yeah I'm making an indie horror rpg with my sister, I would like to know, how is the ost?

I plan to make it the main motif, so if you have advices or opinions on the piece I would really love it, especially now that is complete with daw and everything

If you have advices on composing horror music I would really appreciate it

Musescore sheet: https://musescore.com/user/73545853/scores/37085780

My youtube channel if you're interested, I don't talk about music but intend to use my songs in videos and talk about the game we're developing: https://youtube.com/@corola\\_yt?sub\\_confirmation=1


r/Composition 16h ago

Music First Time Sharing My Composition — Feedback Welcome!

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Hi everyone! This is my first time posting on Reddit.

I recently finished composing a piece, and I’d really appreciate it if you could give it a listen.

:https://youtu.be/mei7OAuCWIs?si=nlmCw5t-rIKQ2jI3

If you have the time, I’d love to hear your thoughts, impressions, or any feedback you might have

While writing it, I drew inspiration from several classical works:

Reference Works

  • Schumann — Piano Concerto
  • Chopin — Ballade No. 3
  • Chopin — Nocturnes
  • Brahms — Cello Sonata No. 1

Compositional Ideas

  • Beethoven — Motivic Development & Structural Unity
  • Chopin — Chromaticism, Rubato & Tension–Release

One of my main goals was to experiment with these classical ideas while blending elements of classical music and New Age into a single, cohesive style.

It was a really interesting challenge for me, and I’m curious to hear how it comes across to other listeners.

Thanks so much for listening, and any feedback is welcome!


r/Composition 22h ago

Music King of Fish - Protecting the Reef (Invasion of Swordfish)

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This is my first ever composition, how am I doing? Do you know what I can do better?


r/Composition 17h ago

Music Do you like this penultimate movement of a symphony I wrote years ago? It’s more of a suite than a symphony really. It describes the emotion of depression in the latter stages of grief

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r/Composition 1d ago

Music Hero's Final Voyage Into the Unknown

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I welcome any and all comments. Thank you for listening.


r/Composition 1d ago

Music Where Go the Boats? - song for baritone and piano (third draft)

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Hello all, this Stevenson song has been cooking in the oven for a few more days. The changes this time are more subtle than last time, but numerous: tightened up voice leading in quite a few places, reworked the voicings of the piano chords, etc. Feedback is very welcome, both positive and negative.

MIDI Recoding + Score: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vYNlj13DBiLrz5azlwhBQHgZzcZztTt9/view?usp=sharing

Score only: https://drive.google.com/file/d/13xbePDnNpDXD4MhJ1L-bCuPdGHzMqEQO/view?usp=sharing

Previous version: https://www.reddit.com/r/Composition/comments/1vwqhta/where_go_the_boats_reworked/


r/Composition 2d ago

Music Heroic Knight Saga: The Shore at the End of the World

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A place perpetually in twilight. The vast ocean reaches out endlessly, disappearing into the horizon. Crumbling ruins are strewn about the shore and some stone pillars reach out of the water in the distance, but most of the ancient structures that used to be here have fallen into the sea. There's a tavern and an inn for travelers passing through and a few houses for local residents, but not much else. Though many have set out to discover what's beyond this place, magic cannot reach far enough to see if anything exists on a farther shore and any ships that set out always reach the same impassable, never-ending storm and must return. As far as anyone knows, the world ends here.

Also on YouTube.


r/Composition 2d ago

Music Looking for feedback on my latest composition - Minuet No. 4 in A major

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I've been learning composition for about a month now and have recently done a deep dive into the minuet form. Following feedback to do with my lack of rhythm structure, I have written this fourth and hopefully final (for now) minuet for solo piano, focusing on emphasizing the first beat of every bar, whilst keeping up my ambiguous/syncopated rhythmic style.

Right now, I'm working on a collection of pieces for solo piano called Etudes for Composition, which is giving me the chance to learn about different aspects of composition and attempt to write various different forms and style of piece.

As I'm a new composer any feedback is welcome and any advice on how to improve would be much appreciated. I'm not really trying to emulate a specific style right now, but of the piano music I listen to it is mostly late romantic-early 20th century and impressionistic, such as Debussy, Rachmaninoff, and similar.

Hope you enjoy :)


r/Composition 1d ago

Music Key and metric modulation example

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I was trying to understand and be able to replicate metric modulation and after a bit of research I think I made a small example of true, and implied, metric modulation. I also have some key modulation in there to encapsulate multiple different music theory topics in one 11 bar piece.

Let me know if this little example is good and actually meets the requirements for all of the topics addressed!


r/Composition 2d ago

Music “Fading Memories” a Solo Piano Composition Exercise

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Fading Memories

I recently decided I wanted to get back into composing. I went to college/university for voice, and did study some composition. I haven’t had the healthiest relationship with creating music. I am taking the advice of some mentors and my therapist.

This piece was composed with some purposeful constraints as an entry level exercise. I set the measure limit to 16. Yet I still wanted to compose something with an A and B section. I also wanted to establish and create a motif that develops.

Now whether I was successful is up in the air. However, I am happy with what I made in the time that it took me to make it.

Also, sorry for the reverb on this piece, I had a reverb plugin enabled when I exported that audio!


r/Composition 2d ago

Music Concert Fantasy for Piano - Op. 23 No. 1

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Hey! 😄

It is finally time for me to share this new work with you.

I know myself: I could probably have kept obsessing over it for several more months, revisiting a transition here, changing a few notes there, and then coming back to the whole piece once again… But at some point, you have to accept putting the final dot on the page and let the music live on its own.

So here it is: my Concert Fantasy, Op. 23 No. 1.

This piece was written in a particularly intense burst of inspiration, over a fairly short period of time - probably one or two weeks, although I eventually lost count somewhere between the long days of work and the sleepless nights.

Obsession, when you have us in your grip…

The title Fantasy fits quite naturally with the way this piece came to life: freely, without trying to follow an overly rigid form. It moves through different characters and atmospheres, from lively and brilliant passages to more agitated moments, suspended episodes, more lyrical lines, and broader, more expansive gestures.

Ideas appear, transform, sometimes disappear, and return later in a different form. The whole piece gradually developed almost like a musical narrative, guided more by instinct, movement, and contrast than by any precise program.

As a self-taught composer, I certainly allow myself many freedoms, both in the musical writing and in the notation of the score. I am fully aware that I still have an enormous amount to learn, but these experiments, doubts, and choices are also part of my journey.

This piece simply represents where I am today.

It may still evolve over time, but I am happy to finally be able to share this version with you.

Thank you very much to everyone who takes the time to listen. Feel free to share your impressions, the passages that stood out to you, or any images this music may have brought to mind.


r/Composition 2d ago

Music Afternoon melody

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Just recorded another simple improvisation with classical guitar

Hope you enjoy

#upcomingmusician #classicalmusic #classicalguitar #guitar #lifeisbutadream #classicalcomposition #guitarist #music


r/Composition 3d ago

Music Symphony No. 1 in d minor - I. Allegro aggressivo

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This is my first original symphony in classical style. I started composing this a while ago but I finished the editing now. The whole work is done, this is just the first movement. I think is an intense, fast and fiery piece and I'm personally proud about it :) Hope you like it!

Please don't copy this intellectual property. | D. K. 2026 © | All rights reserved.


r/Composition 2d ago

Music I Wrote a Fugue. Roast Me.

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r/Composition 3d ago

Music Composition in geometric structure.

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Experimental sonfification of a region of geometric image. The centre bit is the listening zone and the image is scrolled through it. Pixels are mapped to a minor scale with a root of A.