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Sometimes I have fun writing music; if anyone's interested, here's something.

General notes:

• Audio files are saved on Dropbox. If the window appears asking for the Dropbox login close it and press PLAY, at the bottom.
• I use the notation program Sibelius 6.2, old but more than enough for me (here a sample score: V scene, II act of the operetta). Here the current versions of Sibelius.
  
• The orchestra is performed by NotePerformer 3, I would say excellent. I didn't use any effects: What you hear is how NotePerformer 'reads' the score.
• In the following I usually write minor keys in lower case and major keys in upper case.

Symphony No.1 in E flat major

First, and probably last- but no :-), symphony: I also wrote it quickly, in a few days, in November 2021, basically when I was about to retire.

• I movement Largo-Allegro
  In sonata form, with a somewhat long modulating bridge, practically a third theme that is heard again in the development. The 'real' second theme is a fugue exposition.
  The slow intro maybe is not good :-)
  
• II movement Andante
  I like this one. There is a 'daring' modulation repeated twice, from g -> f# and then f# -> f, but it seems smooth to me.
  
• III movement Scherzo (Presto)
  That's funny. And executable only if flautist and oboist are computers :-D
  
• IV movement Allegro non troppo
  It's 'almost' a rondo: here it is the refrain that modulates (even if only slightly), the opposite of what happens in the classic rondo.
  

Symphony No.2 in c minor

Imagine that, in early 2022 I wrote another one!
This one seems more 'organic' to me: Parts of the first theme of the first movement appear in the third and fourth movements, the second movement (though Adagio) has a mosso accompaniment by the cellos that recalls the exaggerated motion of the violins in the first movement. I had fun!

• I movement Allegro
  Still in sonata form, the first theme (a bit dramatic) is developed at quite a length. The second theme in E flat is very contrasting, even though it looks like the contrary motion of part of the first theme.
  In the development I superimpose (in B minor...) the incipit of the I theme on the II theme.
  
• II movement Adagio
  As usual, my modulations are a little haphazard: Bb -> B -> Bb, I really like that last one.
  
• III movement Scherzo (Presto)
  Curious 5-beat periods here and there.
  
• IV movement Calmo
  One more 'almost' rondo.
  

Adagio in a minor for oboe and strings

Maybe it's a little long, but I like it: Adagio n.1

Suite n.1 for synthesizers

I have many virtual synthesizers and this is my first attempt at 'electronic' music.
I performed the finale with the oldest known additive synthesis 'synthesizers': pipe organ and choir :-)
There it is. If you find it boring, listen at least to the finale from 12'45". Of synthesizers there are few, and for little, but I like it....

On two Ukrainian themes

...and now, as of February 2022, there is war in Ukraine, brought on by those who could very well have declared 'war' on the entire West without firing a shot. If that idiot had only threatened to turn off the gas taps all of Europe would have rushed to grant the 'czar' anything, especially a treaty to guarantee Ukraine's non-accession to NATO, or even the EU. We are in the hands of morons, on all sides, all over the world.

There are very beautiful traditional Ukrainian songs, listen for example to Cvite teren.
I wrote this piece on this theme too.

Merlino?

Back in 1981 I had started writing an operetta, which I finished in 2021.... it is now on YouTube.
In this page (in Italian) all the details.

Other (older) pieces

They are executed with virtual instruments that are less efficient than NotePerformer...
(Shooting no, but clicking on the pianist is fine. Sometimes you have to maximize the player window and/or start the execution manually.)

Fugues
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  Fugue in F
  (here only music if video doesn't work)
  .
  Poking around on the net I found a page (no longer extant) of a Dutch pianist who had held a competition: was to write a fugue on a subject whose first notes were given. I wrote this little thing, whose subject is a lot longer than the proposed one (the proposed notes were only the first six, to which I also changed the rhythm). Honestly, this fugue ends a little too abruptly....

Fugue in c
(here only music if video doesn't work)
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I've never been able to get past the modulation to the major... Sooner or later I will decide to finish it, after all the subject is interesting!
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  Fugue in d
  (here only music if video doesn't work)
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  It's a fugue on the theme of the Kunst der Fuge by Bach. I've used the Bach theme in every possible way: inverted, retrograde, augmented, diminished (almost unrecognizable in the last lines!).The first countersubject is the theme by retrograde motion, and also (when it follows the theme by inverse motion) by inverse and retrograde motion.
  With a bold (or just ugly?) modulation to B minor I introduced the signature BACH. More good will than art...
  Here are the terms used in the score and possible transformations:
  

  T Theme Cs I First countersubject Cs II Second countersubject

  i inverse motion r retrograde motion a augmentation d diminuition


Ragtimes
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  Bollrag
  (here only music if video doesn't work)
  .
  It's a Ragtime, the name comes from Bollwerk, the neighborhood in Bern where I worked. Normal piano sound.
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  Stupid Rag
  (here only music if video doesn't work)
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  It's another Ragtime, the name says it all.... Sound of Honky Tonk piano.