My first composition: string quartet in A minor
Hi guys!
This is my first piece: I'm completely new to writing music and using MuseScore. I wrote the first movement of a string quartet. The piece is in a sonata form structure (exposition, development, recapitulation, coda). Please give me some feedback! In particular, I'm concerned about two issues:
1. Structural pacing. Are the themes developed enough? Are they developed with enough variation? Is the piece too repetitive? Or, on the other hand, does the piece jump too quickly from one idea/mood to the next?
2. Depth of sound color. Is the harmonic layering of the four voices sufficiently interesting, or is it not varied enough?
You guys on this forum are probably much more experienced with writing many compositions, so you would probably know better than me. Please listen and give feedback! Thanks guys!
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wow, this is really good, do you play any instruments because this is very well written and has some very good original material
umm.... it kinda sounds like the theme music from the old Sega Alladin game...
For your first composition, this is actually fantastic. Much better than my first works. As for your concerns, the themes develop nicely and are not underdone. If anything, this is very very long for a first composition, which isn't bad at all. There were no problems with structure, however in listening, the modulations could've been a hair smoother. There was only one other thing that wasn't ideal for listening. The sonata is very thickly scored. Of course, it has four instruments, so having everything on a different part isn't hard to do. But it becomes very dense and distracting in the beginning. Few composers that I know of were able to pull that off successfully in a small ensemble of this style (Basically [in my opinion, of course], Shostakovich and Mendelssohn, maybe Brahms). If anything, try to cut back just a hair on the amount of motion in each line. Remember though, motion and articulation are two different things, so the repeated 16th's are easily acceptable. I don't know if you play any strings, but just to be sure, double-check the double-stops. Make sure that they are actually possible on the instrument. I play cello (badly), and I didn't see any problems in the cello part, but I don't play violin or viola so it's more difficult to see. Other that that, this is very well done, and is absolutely delightful to listen to!