How much music have you wrote?!

[brendan765]

This is all I've wrote, some pages are back sided so it would come out to like 40 pages on printed sheets.

Post pics to see who's composed the most.  Better yet, maybe we should have a video composition competition and have a older/virtuoso pianist judge. It would be fun! 

[j_menz]

Written, not wrote.

And, as with prose, it's quality that matters, not quantity.

[rachmaninoff_forever]

I'm working on this sonata for Valentina Lisitsa.

[chopin2015]

I'm working on this sonata for Valentina Lisitsa.

I really want to hear!!

[outin]

I have composed exactly one page of music and it was due to a bet...
Not very happy with the result though... the idea was to make a piece starting with a few random notes that were thrown at you 

Took about an hour but I learned to use notation software in the process so it was not complete waste of time...I think I might try again some day...after I learn to play first.

[ajspiano]

not mountains for piano..  A few years ago I wrote about 50 'songs' for guitar/vocals in the space of a few months though. Break ups = creative outbursts.

[chopin2015]

not mountains for piano..  A few years ago I wrote about 50 'songs' for guitar/vocals in the space of a few months though. Break ups = creative outbursts.

Has anyone seen Walk Hard?


Edit:that was prob. Inappropriate of me. I apologize.

[chopin2015]

I have composed exactly one page of music and it was due to a bet...
Not very happy with the result though... the idea was to make a piece starting with a few random notes that were thrown at you 

Took about an hour but I learned to use notation software in the process so it was not complete waste of time...I think I might try again some day...after I learn to play first.

You should write and share! That would be cool!

[thalbergmad]

I am on my Op.6 which is a Fantasia on a Theme by Xenakis.

Thal

[ahinton]

I am on my Op.6 which is a Fantasia on a Theme by Xenakis.

Do please tell us about your Opp. 1-5.

Best,

Alistair

[ahinton]

I'm working on this sonata for Valentina Lisitsa.

Which sonata? I don;t see it here. Has she commissioned it from you? Has its première been scheduled and, if so, where and when?

Best,

Alistair

[thalbergmad]

Do please tell us about your Opp. 1-5.

Op.1 - Suite for 27 triangles and a lawn mower
Op.2 - Knobend variations
Op.3 - Concerto for 3 neutered cats and the background radiation from a quasar.
Op.4 - snotana for 16 people who have never played the piano before.
Op.5 - Out of Breath. A 3 hour long piece for a trumpet with no valves and a large cork.

All modernist stuff really

Thal

[ahinton]

Op.1 - Suite for 27 triangles and a lawn mower
Op.2 - Knobend variations
Op.3 - Concerto for 3 neutered cats and the background radiation from a quasar.
Op.4 - snotana for 16 people who have never played the piano before.
Op.5 - Out of Breath. A 3 hour long piece for a trumpet with no valves and a large cork.

All modernist stuff really

Well, boundless thanks for your detailed elucidation. Just a few small questions (to which I trust you will not object) occur to me, as follows.

Was there a specific reason (3 cubed, perhaps) for there being 27 variations in Op. 1 and is a specific make and model of lawnmower called for and essential for the authentic performance of the work?

What is the particular significance of the work "Knobend" in the title of Op. 2 and on what precisely are the variations based (and how many of these are there)?

Have you obtained formal written consent from RSPCA, the Cats' Protection League and the equivalent EU organisations thereto whose regulations presumably take precedence over those of the UK ones before permitting Op. 3 to be performed?

Is the necessary removal of the trumpet valves in Op. 5 part of the performance itself or does it have to be undertaken prior to any performance? - and what is the purpose of the cork in this work?

Were any or all of these works commissioned and, if so by whom and where and by whom were they premièred?

What are you planning to write next?

Are the scores of your works available?

Best,

Alistair

[lloyd_cdb]

Has anyone seen Walk Hard?

The compositions are surprisingly impressive for what they are. My brother actually bought the CD lol.

I've written 2.5 pieces I'd consider OK to decent quality. They are still hand-written, so if I get motivated I'll electronify them. I wrote a bunch of crappy pieces my freshman year for 2 music classes that my teacher used to improv off making them sound legitimate for my presentations. One was a piece that had to be a palindrome. It sucked. Thoroughly.

In regards to the legitimate ones, the first started as a simple lullaby and turned into more of a full romance poem after I added sections that weren't a lullaby-esque walking pace. I Wrote it years ago, but almost never look at it now. Probably should check again to confirm whether or not to count it

The other started as a 30 second piece trying to incorporate varying techniques for a quick warm-up when people ask me to play cold. It expanded into an angry prelude when I was in a crappy mood (emotion-wise think Chopin nocturne 15/3 without the A' section). The other .5 piece is somewhat of a continuation of the prelude, might turn it into a suite or just a stand alone.

[kakeithewolf]

Of pieces I have made total? Somewhere over 200.
Of pieces I've written scores for? I count 43.
Of pieces I consider decent? 30 or so.
Of pieces with scores I consider decent? Probably 16 or 17.
Of pieces where I didn't write it in the wrong key (The limits of computers...)? Maybe 7-9.
Of pieces people here would find decent? Maybe two or three, four if I'm lucky.

I've not posted much of my music for good reason. Most of it isn't just for piano, much of it is of exceedingly abhorrent quality (whether it be my lack of musical skill, computer limits, or background noise in recordings; often all three of these), or because it isn't Classical (Electronick, Metal, Rock, etc).

I don't really name things in terms of Op. 1, 2, etc. The reason for that is because I don't feel that I make good enough music to really merit such a naming system. Maybe a few pieces would be numbered, but not many. Hence the fact that I release my music for free.

[brendan765]

I think some people will like my pieces and some won't.  I come up with some beautiful melodys and harmonic progressions, but a lot of my work you could say is like Chopin or Liszt. Similar in ways. But I love harp music...all the glissando and arpeggio sounds of the harp I incorporate into my music. And yeah I like octaves, tenths, 9th chord, scale passages.  The reason why some people won't like my music is because some of it is thundering, and hard to sing a melody...but I'll always also write simple melody ones.   But I also usually always have a simple melody that's backed up by a lot of harmonic progression

[Derek]

Close to 900 solo piano pieces and counting, though I suspect only the last several hundred are interesting to listen to. *edit* 956 to be exact. I intend to write a program eventually to transcribe and format a large number of these pieces for measureless/time signatureless sheet music. I'm under the impression this is becoming common again in modern classical music, after falling out of fashion in the late renaissance.