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I would like to know how many of the nations of this fine land have composed a piece or two. I myself have composed 2 symphonys....for my school, and 1 piece that is new age and its not yet complete. Asside from that. if you cannot compose the music yourself, what music are you interested in?

On another note, should there be aliances for countries with similar interests.;)

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Anyway, i've written several songs.

Well, I've scored a couple of dozen choral arrangements of pre-existing pieces. My original compositions have generally been fairly mediocre, but I'm a pretty decent arranger. :)

I compose in a Neo-impressionist style for unordinary ensembles. Most of my music is sub-par, but I enjoy it a lot.

I've got a few hours of digital audio lying around that I should probably transcribe before it gets destroyed somehow. I've probably got a few songs worth on the recorder, guitar and piano/organ recorded separately which go together. All I need is a program that I can use to add a rhythm section and edit it together and I would technically have produced a song. So yes. :p

I compose, but I don't pretend I remember a lick of my musical training, so I essentially write what sounds good to me, then nod wisely while someone else gives it an official sounding name. *nods*

Yeah, I write some music now and then. Right now I'm into fugues again. Fugues are nice and challenging, especially if you want them to sound decent. One day I'll write a symphony.

I've never actually tried composing anything, though given what kind of random tunes I can occasionally come up with in my head, I think I could be pretty good if I gave it a fair shot. Admittedly I'm not sure how I'd go about it, but it'd be worth a try.

Composing a symphony is on my grand-scheme-of-life to-do list.

Two choral fantasies based on songs by Billy Joel and Harry Chapin. Four basic choral works, including an Anthem (US). Multiple vocal jazz arrangements, lifts and adaptations and one vocal jazz composition.

Instruments scare me.

I wrote a saxophone choir for my 20th century composition class and a sonata for oboe, clarinet and guitar for the class before that. And of course the chorals and such you have to write in the classes before that.

I've written some piano works, an overture for windband, a woodwind quintet, some choral works (original and arranged), and have just finished the first draft of a work for string orchestra. I'd probably put myself in the Neo-Classical category, but seeing as its quite a number of generations after Stravinsky its probably about 7 'Neo's on the front. Influences: Shostakovich, Mahler, Beethoven, Bartok, Philip Sparke, Chopin.

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Anyway, i've written several songs.

and you should not.

I've been teaching myself composition, but I haven't written anything yet. I'm working on a piano sonata, though.

I've never actually tried composing anything, though given what kind of random tunes I can occasionally come up with in my head, I think I could be pretty good if I gave it a fair shot. Admittedly I'm not sure how I'd go about it, but it'd be worth a try.

Same here. I've come up with a few really good 20 second choruses before; but it's always when I'm away from home and I'm bound to forget it 2 minutes later :( All my 'songs' are never much more than 20 seconds in length. Besides, if I wrote a song, it would more likely be poetry put to music and that's just dull.

Wait, I did write a song when I was 10; it was a Hallowe'en song that I wrote for my firends' entry to a talent show, but I was too embarassed to let them hear it that I 'misplaced' the words...

You musical people would laugh at my ways of writing down musical notes. It would take me far too long to write on sheet music (I won't even begin to recollect my 7 years of violin classes...), so I'll write the note (A-G) and then stick a little + or - next to it, to indicate whether it's lower or higher than the previous note. Not handy if you're using more than one key, but it works for me :p

I've written a minimalist symphony that consists of two hours of a car alarm going off between 2:45am and 4:45am. I try to perform it for my neighborhood at least once a week.

Still working on that; I did get a synthesizer keyboard thing and some sequencing software for my last birthday however, and I learned how to read music in 5th grade so I can tell what all of the notes mean, but otherwise I haven't actually written anything. I do play around with the keyboard and stuff though, and mostly turn out music that sounds a little bit like the bastard child of Béla Bartók, Mario Davidovsky*, Frank Zappa*, and all of those "cool jazz" bands of the 70s and 80s.

* Names I heard on the radio and whose song playing at the time sounded faintly similar, but I'm not sure if everything they write sounds like that so I question-mark it.

** Yes I know I am trying to justify myself despite not actually having accomplished anything. :p

I would like to know how many of the nations of this fine land have composed a piece or two. I myself have composed 2 symphonys....for my school, and 1 piece that is new age and its not yet complete. Asside from that. if you cannot compose the music yourself, what music are you interested in?

On another note, should there be aliances for countries with similar interests.;)

i can "compose" music in my head so very easily, and it always sounds great :P
but when it comes to actually getting it out of my head (as with most artistic stuff) it just gets lost somewhere and i can't do it :(

meh.

i can "compose" music in my head so very easily, and it always sounds great :P
but when it comes to actually getting it out of my head (as with most artistic stuff) it just gets lost somewhere and i can't do it :(


I feel that way with writing sometimes. When that happens I go and engage in strenuous exercise, or ought to (I don't always have time)—but when I do it my mind is usually more at peace afterwards and I can put my thoughts on paper with much greater ease. If you don't like exercise very much and have the opportunity for the alternative, apparently sex affords similar effects. (Try it sometime.)