'Dream's End' - a symphonic composition written with Musescore 4 and Muse Sounds 

Thank you for listening!! Glad that you’ve been enjoying these pieces.

Hey Karl, thanks so much for checking it out! Yeah I’m definitely hoping to get that done one day

Thank you! I’m actually a jazz trumpet player, but I do love listening to blues and rock guitar.

It’s actually done using MusesScore itself. Under the appearances tab in the settings, there’s an option to use an image file as a background for the score.

@@thadbaileymai How did you set up the recording of the score? Is there an option to save the score playback with the playing line as a video file?

@@Thunshot Unfortunately there’s no video export built into the app. I had to use screen capturing software, and recombine it with the exported audio file after.

@@thadbaileymai I appreciate it. Did you use OBS or another screen cap software?

@@Thunshot I’m using a Mac, so just QuickTime. Nothing too fancy!

Thank you! I haven’t done a deep dive of Boulanger yet, but she’s on my list!

@thadbaileymai Definitely check her music out. She genuinely embodied the spirit of French impressionism, but her music was also remarkably forward-looking for the 1910s. I think you'd enjoy it :)

Thanks for feedback! With hindsight, I’m inclined to agree with you. The piece definitely leans on certain colours/textures quite heavily. I’m currently working on a piece with much more contrast for that exact reason. Hopefully I’ll be able to upload it within the next week or two :) On a related note, I’m really hoping that the Musescore team will put more work into the brass sounds. At the moment, they’re quite finicky, and sound notably artificial at louder dynamics and faster tempos. I’d be more inclined to demo them here if they were fixed up a bit more.

Possibly, but not intentionally!

I can only speak for running Musescore on Mac OS, but I was able to remove the top panel by going to view -> toolbars -> then unchecking all of the options there. The side panels can be removed individually within the menus accessed by clicking the 3-dots next to their category names. That being said, I didn't take a full screen capture. I used QuickTime to make a cropped screen capture once I had more free space from the above adjustments.

@@thadbaileymai Thank you. I have already listened to your composition twenty times so much that I love the beauty of the harmonies and the atmosphere. I hope that you will develop your symphony over around thirty minutes to have the pleasure of hearing the rest? All the media talk about the harmonic genius of Jacob Collier and make tons about him who has still not put his abilities (?) at the service of a symphony or a piano concerto content to make songs.. The media would do better to take an interest in you, you are a contemporary composer capable of doing something very beautiful, this is rare in contemporary “classical” music which seeks dissonance at all costs and produces “ugly” music. so as not to resemble what has already been done before.

@@franciscluster Your words are incredibly kind and touching. I have a lot to improve upon, but I do hope to build the skills necessary to create longer works. My creative process is still quite inefficient. I actually appreciate Jacob Collier’s music more and more each year. I find some of his work to be questionable in taste, but there’s no denying that he has incredible skill as both a performer and composer. I would love to hear what he’d write for an orchestra or chamber ensemble if given the chance. Anyway, thank you for listening to my work so far, and I’m glad that you’ve enjoyed it!

@@thadbaileymai Sorry if I write poorly in English (I'm French). I played your work with friends (professional musicians or music teachers) and they all had the same reaction as me: "impressive", "very beautiful, astonishing harmonies", "subtlety of nuances", "delicious atmosphere", “music that manages to convey emotion despite the fact that it is played by the Musescore machine” these are the words that come up often. Only one small flaw that we notice but rather linked to the mixing I think: (2:55 and 3:52) crescendo too exaggerated in power which causes saturation (at this moment we have to lower the sound). Personally I like this crescendo (3:25) with a big tremolo bass which makes me imagine a scene from a cinema film, this bass produces the similar noise made by the propeller engines of large bomber planes (2nd World War) flying in squadrons in the early morning at the rising sun with a beautiful landscape below and approaching the target! (we should make this crescendo last longer with this bass for a film) Good luck. 🙂

@@franciscluster Thank you for sharing my work with your friends! I really appreciate that my music is reaching new listeners, and it is nice to hear that it is being enjoyed. I'm still learning how to effectively balance dynamics in an orchestral context, so there's definitely going to be lots of flaws in my work for the time being. I'm going to have some of my works performed by a real orchestra soon, which will hopefully remedy some of these deficiencies! Musescore does need some additional improvement regarding its dynamic playback, too. It is pretty tedious getting it to sound realistic at the moment.