Symphonic Poem No 2 - Original composition - Musescore 4 score

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A long'ish piece with a slow build so you have to patiently wait for the money shot! Looking at the fantastic feedback I've had from my valued commenters, I think at least some people agree it's worth the investment!
My second orchestral piece, written in 2021 using Logic, which sounded a bit fake so I re-orchestrated it in 2023 in Musescore with Muse Sounds. Much better, to my ears.
Some of my symphonic pieces in Musescore:
• Symphonic Poem No 1 -...
• Symphonic Poem No 2 -...
• Symphonic Poem No. 6 -...
• Symphonic Poem No. 5 -...
• Symphonic Poem No 4 -...
Some of my chamber pieces in Musescore:
• Andante for Oboe & Str...
• Dawn Chorus for Oboe &...
• Two Little Bits of Str...
Some of my choral pieces in Musescore:
• Ave Verum Corpus - Ori...
• Elegy - Original compo...
• Vocalise - Original Co...
Original compositions by Jeff Ward, written in Musescore 4 with Muse Sounds, sometimes remixed in Logic Pro X, choral works supplemented by EastWest Hollywood Choir WordBuilder for phonetic lyrics, and/or very rarely Hollywood Strings. See video description above for further details.
© Copyright Jeff Ward 2023

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@5ammy13 9 месяцев назад

Really wonderful composition. We live in a world where all of this is available for free. No excuse not to make music now.

@JeffWardMusic 9 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@eliplayer2122 7 месяцев назад

My excuse is i dont know how

@5ammy13 7 месяцев назад

@@eliplayer2122 it is an excuse because I am a self taught musician. I learnt most of what I know online from RU-vid and Twitch streams of my favourite musicians. It can be done. I must say the hardest part of that is the starting because you just don't know where to start. Having a musician friend or even taking a few classes online can help you get started, but nevertheless it's far from impossible learning all of this and using the tools for absolutely free... Of course not taking into consideration the internet and electricity bills and stuff lol 😂

@lilybandpropheticworship 8 месяцев назад

Some of the very best Musescore 4 composing demonstrations that I have heard so far. Really great composition here! And to think this is available as a free tool for composers.

@JeffWardMusic 8 месяцев назад

Thank you very much!

@VincentGiza-Composer 7 месяцев назад

Beautiful composition! I love your use of modulations, and your textures/ orchestration is very intriguing as well!

@JeffWardMusic 7 месяцев назад

Thank you very much Vincent. I'm very much experimenting with textures, having no training in this means it's all trial and error!

@VincentGiza-Composer 7 месяцев назад

I was also untrained for my first couple years as a composer, and it was a lot of trial and error myself! It’s really cool how far that’ll get you though! Plus, I think you’re on a great track right now with what you got here! It’ll only get better! Keep composing! Best wishes!

@SpargurYarnCrafts 5 месяцев назад

My goodness, I am enjoying this immensely. You are correct that the balance is definitely better on this one with the woodwinds. I love how each instrument has their moment to shine through the texture. I also really enjoy the little surprise moments where the brass comes in really strong after the woodwinds and strings have this light, quiet moment. This piece feels very "death of that one supporting character who didn't deserve to die" and my goodness, it's just so good.

@JeffWardMusic 5 месяцев назад

I'm so glad you are, thanks! Yes, that's a rather good interpretation. I really appreciate it when people come up with a scene in their heads from something I've written as, most of the time, I don't have one in mind. This one, to me, always sounded like dawn breaking and sunrise for the first coupe of minutes, but then it goes awry!

@minder01 10 месяцев назад

I love the rhythmic recall.

@Amalia-vw2ri 9 месяцев назад

that amazing!!!!! i love it!!!

@JeffWardMusic 9 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@kaiseryravin6288 10 месяцев назад

This is really good. Love it!

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

Thanks very much!

@briantorres3559 10 месяцев назад

Wonderful music!

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

Thanks very much!

@kalynnscompositions 6 месяцев назад

Fantastic! Sounding great Jeff! (:

@JeffWardMusic 6 месяцев назад

Thank you very much Kalynn!

@DanGabrieldS 10 месяцев назад

Amazing work!

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

Thanks very much!

@balajigopinath6752 9 месяцев назад

Amazing composition! Kudos.

@JeffWardMusic 9 месяцев назад

Thank you very much!

@tuebor6206 10 месяцев назад

Lovely

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

Thank you very much!

@didiersenecal5352 9 месяцев назад

Beautiful. You can be proud of yourself

@JeffWardMusic 9 месяцев назад

Thank you very much Didier!

@Der_Komponist 10 месяцев назад

Sehr schön, das ist wirklich sehr schön. Ich wünsche dir ein schönes Wochenende. :-)

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

Danke schön! Habe auch ein gutes Wochenende!

@adlic.5354 10 месяцев назад

This is amazing! (from a horn player)

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

Thank you very much!

@SFgamer 6 месяцев назад

It gives off Disney vibes.

@igordrm 6 месяцев назад

Beautiful.

@JeffWardMusic 6 месяцев назад

Thank you!

@wong4728 10 месяцев назад

Jeff, This is my description of this piece- it like taking a sledge hammer to hit a thumb tack in melting butter= Excellent.

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

Thank you very much Harold. So glad you like it! Spot-on description....exactly what I was going for🤣

@fondleballsxi 7 месяцев назад

Really great stuff. Reminds me of wagner or strauss

@JeffWardMusic 7 месяцев назад

Thanks Sir Fondle!

@catafest 7 месяцев назад

great, I like it ... will be a good intro for a movie or game intro !

@JeffWardMusic 7 месяцев назад

Thanks! It probably would!

@jeanpierrecarpentier 7 месяцев назад

Superbe

@JeffWardMusic 7 месяцев назад

Merci beaucoup Jean-Pierre!

@johnp.w.hudson7192 6 месяцев назад

Hi, Jeff: I enjoyed listening to your piece. I am a seasoned user of Musescore (since version 2) and I was very impressed with your technical recording. May I ask what you use for your sounds and mixing? That must have taken a lot of work!

@JeffWardMusic 6 месяцев назад

Hi John, thank you very much! Yes, it was rather a lot of work but (as you'll probably concur) it is a rather absorbing and enjoyable way to pass the time! This one is pure Musescore 4.0 - all of the sounds are Musescore 4’s free Muse Sounds with nothing added from other sources/VST/etc., so Musescore mix down and export to WAV. I have recently been experimenting with exporting dry (no reverb) WAV sub-mixes (i.e. separate stems, for woodwind, brass, percussion & strings) to Logic Pro where they can individually be EQ’ed, small balance adjustments made and a higher quality reverb added. And the sound improves considerably, as you might expect, so my next video (cello concerto, adagio movement) will using that approach, so do keep an ear open for it! Thanks again, and all the best, Jeff

@Right_Sune 4 месяца назад

The amount of new composers who just bang out Musescore content onto youtube because of the "send to youtube" button is crazy not complaining though, I;m one of them!!

@JeffWardMusic 4 месяца назад

I didn't even know there was a "send to youtube" button🤣 I could have saved hours of work in Final Cut Pro!

@MusicOfTheSilverScreen 9 месяцев назад

Hey can you tell me whether I can compose score with my macbook air 8gb ram using musescore 4

@JeffWardMusic 9 месяцев назад

Should be no problem at all. Musescore 4 uses about 700Mb of RAM for me, so 8gb should be fine.

@theo4738 8 месяцев назад

We are creating a new symphonic orchestra with some friends in Lille, North of France. Can I propose your piece to be played as our first one ? :)

@JeffWardMusic 8 месяцев назад

Wow! Yes, of course you may, I would be greatly honoured. If they agree, I can provide parts with phrasing but someone will need to do the bowing marks (I'm not a string player!).

@theo4738 8 месяцев назад

Yes, can you send me parts and score please ? The maestro want to have a look ! @@JeffWardMusic

@Historyisnotwas 7 месяцев назад

Very cool - wonderful sound textures and mood. Do you use a midi keyboard for note entry or just note input through Musescore?

@JeffWardMusic 7 месяцев назад

Thank you! I just use a mouse and computer keyboard, so no midi.

@devin8026 7 месяцев назад

this is amazing, is it entirely musesounds or were there any 3rd party vsts?

@JeffWardMusic 7 месяцев назад

Thank you very much Devin! Yes, it's straight out of Musescore 4.0 with only Muse Sounds, nothing added, no VSTs, no EQ, stock Muse Reverb. But...it sounds absolutely horrible in Musescore 4.2 with out of tune/time woodwinds and all the other faults they introduced with it :(

@redgit9905 10 месяцев назад

Is there a main motif of triumphant minor-to-major “switches”, here?

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

The aim was to use 2 short motifs, one ascending (e.g. measure 9 flute), one descending (e.g. measure 49 oboe) plus variations of them, and try to interweave them. The full melody that each motif belongs to comes at measure 100 (french horns) and 116 (tutti), which is a bit of an odd way around…rather like laying out all the component parts and then assembling them at the end. That was the idea, anyway.

@foxfair_foo 5 месяцев назад

Great music! Is there any sheet music available in the musescore community? Could you provide a link to the sheet music? Thank you very much.

@JeffWardMusic 5 месяцев назад

Thank you! Yes by chance I've already put this one and 2 others on Musescore...musescore.com/user/32381594

@foxfair_foo 5 месяцев назад

@@JeffWardMusic Thank you very much.

@storiesreadaloud5635 9 месяцев назад

Are we nearing the point where this can be a viable alternative to sample libraries then? Very hard to get a realistic sound from a DAW depending on the piece

@JeffWardMusic 9 месяцев назад

I wonder. I find sample libraries and piano roll editing get right in the way of the creative process and I spend more time fighting with the technology than writing music. And it's too easy to orchestrate badly with them. Musescore 4 is so immediate and the results are sonically 7/10, which is fine for me as I'm not trying to make cinematic mockups for a film director.

@calebdillman8462 9 месяцев назад

Do you sell these for film scores?

@JeffWardMusic 9 месяцев назад

I'm always open to offers!😀

@Emilio410 3 месяца назад

2:45 I think your Harp part complicated all that chromatic stuff is hard on harp and based off first glance,, It'd take a good chunk of work just to play those few measures also if there's a certain note, not sure if it's a B or a Bb but if its a Bb those measures could possibly be unplayable?

@JeffWardMusic 3 месяца назад

It may indeed not be payable Emilio, but since the chances of anyone ever playing it for real are exactly zero, I'm not too worried!

@TohlerCompositor 10 месяцев назад

How would you name this piece? In an artistic way if you know what I mean

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

Interesting question! I struggled with this one which is why the thumbnail has horns on it and not a mountain or something else to give you a clue. The opening section to me always evokes sunrise into and out of the clouds and finally emerging into clear sky. But then it all goes wrong after that🤣

@TohlerCompositor 10 месяцев назад

@@JeffWardMusic i also thought that a sunrise fits the beginning, sunset in the middle of the work and it's all fff with the cymbals and the final is the night, which is calm. Is pretty much the structure of Eine Alpensinfonie of R. Strauss.

@JeffWardMusic 10 месяцев назад

@@TohlerCompositor That's a great analysis...I'll go with that! Strauss, yes, good point...I've not heard the Alpine Symphony since 1979 when I was an assistant sound engineer and we recorded it for an album...I got the job of editing all the takes together (1/4" tape and razorblades in those days) so some of it must have stuck in my subconscious!