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Thanks for sharing your piece, Paul. It definitely needs a better title (although "long piece" is an apt description  ).  I enjoyed listening to your work, which felt like it was taking me on a long journey through a moody, gloomy landscape. There was enough variety in your orchestration and harmonic techniques to maintain interest.

Nearing the end, the music took on an optimistic tone, like a ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds, but clashing major and minor chords at the end brought things to an uncertain end.

You might consider adding an unaccompanied, extended cadenza for the violins to play toward the end of the piece, as it is concerto-like in a way. And you need to create a good-looking score for others to review (although, as you mentioned, this could be problematic).

Again, nice work!

-Jay

Just beginning to listen to this work Ron. The mood of the first movement seems to reflect, for me, the anguish of parenting grown children discussed in recent forum posts.  Also, thanks for mentioning the on-line course exploring the Beethoven Sonatas. I am "enrolled" and have found Jonathan Biss a delightful teacher.  best, LA

Understood by all who live a full life!!!

Mark

Mark said it all!

More power to you Terence and may all things run the way you wish!

I hear you Terence. I was virtually paralyzed for many months because of a 34-year-old child of mine who continues to throw temper tantrums daily, alienating everyone who comes near him. It cost me a close friend of more than 40 years. I am gradually overcoming my despair and slowly piecing things together.

Bless you...and never give up.

Hello,

I developed /composed this in Sonar.  I offer my apologies in advance because I really tried to create a reasonable score from it but the bizarre quirks of Finale defeated me.  It seemed in the end to be "making things up", i.e. adding notes that were not in the file at all.

In future I will probably start in Finale (or Notion?) and finish in Sonar (or another DAW).

I am linking to a midi file and an MP3.

Please feel free to engage as much or as little as you wish.

If anyone does want to discuss this, my particular question (apart from the usual ones) would be: is it worth making a proper score from this?

regards, Paul.

ps it's just under 20 minutes.

Also I have become much more busy (not with music unfortunately) and have had some family issues and have not really been able to take part here very much for quite some time.  I will do what I can to make amends.

Links rather than uploads:

Audio: https://www.dropbox.com/s/az3hcxl39jb4kiw/two%20violins%20and%20orchestra.mp3?dl=0

Midi: https://www.dropbox.com/s/54pre9nc30tby3l/two%20violins%20and%20orchestra.mid?dl=0