Hello M.G.,

Congratulations on finishing this piece. It demonstrates a lot of composition technique. You were able to do this so quickly, too.

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One think I haven't done with this piece until about a half hour ago is apply the acid test--that is, listen to it whole.<!-/quote-!><hr size=0></blockquote>I wish I could write that way. Until I had Composer, I wrote at the piano, I would start at the beginning of the piece, and play up to the point where I had last stopped writing, and improvise a few more notes, or if I were lucky, a few more measures, and jot them down. It was like pushing a manual lawn-mover over deep grass-- I'd keep having to back up, often from the beginning edge of the cut lawn, to gain enough momentum to cut another foot of grass.

Seeing the incremental versions of the piece that you have submitted to the forum, it's clear that you write in voices and lines. That's a good approach to writing music for certain styles. I should do more of that myself.

Good work!

Cheers
-- Mark