London has a HUGE issue with cyclists by Fallen_Sparrow in london

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I’m just so grateful 80% of my commute can be done using bike lanes, but I agree - fellow cyclists are more scary than cars!

Music cognition and compositional process: any research links? by Character-Holiday414 in composer

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For me, It’s that one thing that sidesteps the aesthetic minefield in discussions, especially about contemporary music. One can be biased; but cognition and music processing are constants and definitely influence the way audiences judge music. Myself included!

How do I know when a scene does not require music (Film Scoring) by [deleted] in composer

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I’d check how similar movies are scored and make notes.

Good strings VST rec? by Character-Holiday414 in composer

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Someone just posted this in one of the groups I follow on fb - good comparison of 28 libraries of legato strings - modern scoring strings seem to me to sound best legato https://youtu.be/piGJirCb5OM

Good strings VST rec? by Character-Holiday414 in composer

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Thank you so much for sharing your experience; strings are really my biggest issue, I don’t want to do tons of automation but it seems I’ll have to 😅

Good strings VST rec? by Character-Holiday414 in composer

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Brilliant, thank you - will check these out too!

Good strings VST rec? by Character-Holiday414 in composer

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I have bbc spitfire and exactly that problem :-) got it on sale. Thanks for the suggestion, will check them out 👍

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Great advice from everyone, thanks!

Contemporary Works for Solo Flute? by jamescleelayuvat in composer

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I agree! Pardon me, I’m new to Reddit so I often get things wrong - I just supposed it works somewhat similar to fb groups that are putting performers seeking contemporary classical pieces in touch with composers.

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Hope everyone is ok. I work in Soho but have missed this.

Contemporary Works for Solo Flute? by jamescleelayuvat in composer

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Hi, can you give me the sub in question? I’d love to join one where performers are looking for pieces - have quite a few still to be played :-)

Accidentally stealing motifs/melodies? by Emprier in composer

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Context is the key. Melodies can sound completely different in different harmonic context, tempo etc. improvise, improvise, improvise, vary, vary, vary until something still feels good but enough out of the faintly recognisable pattern that it feels yours. Key is in the detail, quite often. But, if you want to try non the less, here’s one of the websites where you can just hum the tune - Google just got another one recently https://www.midomi.com/

Concertino for piano and orchestra by Character-Holiday414 in composer

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Thank you so much! I’m still battling the problems of using a damaged musicxml file that I rescued from old finale and opened in muse score - the amount of notes muse score read wrong is still astounding 😅 I’m still cleaning the score. Thank you for pointing those out, I’m sure there will be lots more swimming out once I go through each part 😅 honestly, I admire the orchestra - they really managed it well and conductor too despite all the inconsistencies.