First composition, Piano accompaniment:

[oscarr111111]

I became interested in composing about 3 months ago, since then I've taken up piano (I'm originally a bass guitar player) and studied music theory.

I've been involved in and enjoy playing traditional folk music, so I figured adding accompaniments to traditional melodies would not only be great practice at composing but also also give me good parts to play when I play folk music .

This is the only one I've done so far, but I plan to do more, I'm quite pleased with it.  Comments, advice and criticism would be appreciated, be as critical as you like.

Enjoy:

Piano and Violin on Melody:
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Sheet Music:


The audio is only a midi export, unfortunately.

[nightingale11]

Hi Oscar,

I couldn't listen to your composition but as you are interested in composition I highly recommend you to get this book:

William Russo – Composing music – A new approach (University of Chicago Press)

The best “teach yourself” to compose book I ever come across. Explores all compositional techniques by means of progressive and carefully thought out exercises. Even  if you do not plan to compose, going through all the exercises in the book will help you to understand what composers are trying to do, and will lead to a much solid appreciation of the pieces you are learning, well beyond the simplistic emotional response “I like/I don’t like”. Highly recommended./Bernhard