dude i’m speechless… this is actually insane. if you ever end up actually premiering this piece PLEASE LMK im deadass i’ll fly out to wherever to play this😭 amazing work dude.
Really, never???? You dont hearing never Clasics Musicians: Mozart Beethoven Haydn Schubert Brahms Tchaikovsky Dvorak Or Movie's soundtrack composer as: John Williams Bernard Herrmann Ennio Morricone John Barry Danny Elfmann Howard Schore Miklós Rozsa?? Wow... where are you the last 200 years? Jajaja
This is most definitely one of the best new compositions RUclips has ever recommended to me, and it's a testament to the piece that it can sound this great even in Musescore MIDI. The section directly after 260 (11:55) is just fantastic. If you ever get this premiered, it would probably be a little noticeable that the trombone section isn't projecting very well when they're playing anything that isn't a unison or octave melody line. Generally trombones have a hard time projecting (despite the stereotypes) when playing with a full ensemble when it is written this low as a section, especially in regards to the 2nd trombone part. Bass trombone will have absolutely no issue being dominant by itself anywhere below or near the bottom of the staff, so doubling a lot of those parts on 2nd (Like all of letter O's voicings) or putting a perfect 5th directly in the middle of the bass and 1st parts (such as measure 255) generally will generally cause the 1st part to be drowned out since it's unsupported in a relatively low register and not get the section sound you are probably looking for. When it's non unison, generally having 1st/2nd over an octave away from the bass trombone is very standard and doesn't tear apart the section sound like it would in most other instruments. Don't be afraid of tenor clef in these kinds of loud sections, we can read it just fine and we like to play above the staff when we're allowed to. Bass trombone will do it's thing and project just fine without the help of the tenors. But this is just me ranting about trombones, every composer utilizes the trombones entirely differently, and a unique sound is never a negative thing. The ideas and overall orchestration is fantastic and 99% of people will not care how the trombones are voiced or even notice.
I think this really depends on your trombone section. Maybe beginning amateurs won't be able to cut through but good trombones will easily overpower the rest, except maybe the other brass and the piccolo flute. Why am I so certain about this? Listen to a british brass band at the top level - even if the whole band is playing fortissimo, the trombones can always cut through the sound if they want to. And those players, even in the top bands, are not always pro players. About the letter O, all the trombone parts are just in octaves and I think it's better practise to double the lower voices because the upper will be heard more easily any way. And in this case there is no reason for it to be heard more dominantly, it's just a colour/overtone to the lower melody. I don't think the trombones will have any trouble projecting anywhere where it's needed in this piece.
We're playing this for youth symphony this year. I'm really exited to play this. This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard. I especially love 4:33.
I agree with most of the commentators on this post - that you can do this on a computer blows my mind - (I'm an old musician from the 60's). The composition itself has a terribly fine amount of talented composition - the musical instincts are true and sound. I felt emotion, a sense of urgency at times, and, contemplative at others. At first, I thought there was a Mahler influence, maybe a dash of John Williams, but I gave up analyzing and just enjoyed the music. That, is what it's all about, for me, at least. I hope Mr. Cowart has a long career, for his compositions will only get, (what's the word I'm looking for?), sublime? Hearty Bravos for you, Mr. Connor Cowart!
The music is very well orchestrated, especially at climaxes. Something that you could definitely work on is the balance between knowing when to push the momentum and when to surprise the listener with something unexpected. There are moments in the score where the music suddenly pauses and it feels like everything that you writing before the pause worked for lost its meaning. Another thing: It is okay to be inspired by other scores, melodies, and harmonies, but you need to be careful when doing it for multiple reasons. 1) The music becomes predictable. The chromatic motif at the beginning immediately told me that you would be quoting "Searching 4" a lot... I could basically sing the rest of the music you wrote before I heard it! 2) You lose an opportunity to develop your own voice. The Tchaikovsky Pas a Deux inspiration, Leia's theme from Star Wars, and Mahler Adaggietto are nice quotes, but be careful if you pass off a theme from something else as your own. It takes a long time to develop a voice, but don't get too comfortable just looking at scores and taking the same melodies. My recommendation is that if you like a certain melody, maybe take it in another direction? Start in a different note and write it another way. This is what I do when I see something I really like a lot and want to write something similar to it. That way, you incorporate the qualities of whatever composer you are inspired by into your own style, further developing you as a composer. Best of luck in your writing, I cannot wait to hear more!
That would be my main reservation...the meaning of the opening is erased by the Mahlerian turn that of course obliterates everything in its wake. It is one sure way to impress a large number of people is to write something Mahleresque...I was listening to this for the Musescore4 sounds and they are pretty impressive. The orchestration is pretty deft and shows off the instruments here well. The content is good too, even if it is second-hand emotion. The transition at 4:32 is really awkward...you just need to carry one group of instruments at least through the gap here it seems to accomodate the shift. There is much impressive work here all the same and talent too.
@Brian Torres good advice. I'm in agreement. I see this a lot on RUclips and the composers are in their teens and twenties and very talented on the one hand, but have not had the listening experience to aborb enough music yet to have their own voice and they don't always seem to understand the bounaries in being inspired by someone, sounding like someone and taking their actual material and coopting it.
You have a great mastery of orchestral colors and sonorities, especially brass. Looking forward to seeing you continue to grow as a composer and see where you're heading, but this is definitely a young man's vision of epic music where his seeds of styles are bared and ready to build on.
I like your piece but I want to mention as a bass clarinet player, we don’t ever read bass clef and treble clef in the same piece. We are comfortable with ledger lines. If you want to use bass clef there is a specific way to use it by picking the specific instrument instead of the normal bass clarinet. It’s the same instrument but the way you write for the instrument is different. Instead of transposing an octave and a major 2nd lower, it’s just a major second lower. It isn’t very common but it is sometimes written like that. You shouldn’t mix the two clefs since it will most likely just cause confusion.
This is an excellent work. Ignore those that say otherwise, don't let them crush your voice or musical expression in order to make it theirs. I want to hear the musical story that you are telling and not the preconceived ideas I already have in my head from years of training. Break free and take me to where you want to go. There is no way to improve on this piece when it is how you currently think and feel. Thank you for sharing it withe me.
Young man, this is absolutely brilliant. I saw some of your other videos where you were playing French Horn, as well as playing some jazz standards on piano. Your musical future is blindingly bright. Bravo! (And I'm sure we'd all like to hear more of your superb orchestral work...pls post more.)
What begins at 1:35 is 😮😮😮😮. I was not ready for it. This is stunningly gorgeous. I hear the late romantic influence. It's enough to make Wagner blush. Wow is this lush! ❤❤❤❤
@@franciscoaragao5398 who gives a fuck, if it works it works. Haven't we heard the same 4 chords for decades in pop music, how about it just music in general? Just shut up.
Dude, This is genuinely one of the best feelings I have ever felt while listening to. It sounds like the soundtrack to some famous timeless classic of a movie. Ok so I wrote this before hearing that stunning Andante section and uh, this is now one of my favorite pieces I have every listened to. This beats out some classical pieces for me. Now that I have listened to the entire piece, I am actually in shock and awe at how good this is. Now all I want to do is study music, I want to figure out why this sounds so good and find music similar. Thank you for reigniting my passion for composition.
I came to hear a demonstration of Musescore 4's new sound engine/instruments, but by around the 2 minute mark, I wasn't even looking at the screen anymore, because I was so enraptured by the music! Very well done! You are very talented!
This is absolutely amazing! Your piece sounds like something you’d expect from one of the great composers or film composers like John Williams. Please keep composing and uploading!
i dont know wich came first, the musescore demo or this but yours sounds significantly more epic and demonstrates perfectly what strenghts and weaknesses the new software has.
goosebumps. Thank you for sharing this masterpiece. Musescore is definitely doing this justice. I'm inspired to keep working on my own music, thanks to you.
Young man. You have a great career ahead of you! You certainly must have a strand of Wagner's DNA in you, based on what I hear in "A Million Suns at Midnight"...keep up the good work...
@@Sfgsssdf.grfrertyfff if you are a mere instrumentalist of this organization I would recommend you speaking with whichever department produces the scores there. If you'd rather not, I would transcribe and share it were you to prove yourself as a member of whichever orchestra.
@@Sfgsssdf.grfrertyfff No, I'm not. But they seemed to agree with your intent of orchestrating this, and so I would not mind transcribing it- would just take an hour or so. Still, I would recommend you to speak with whichever department produces scores for the orchestra in your organization. They surely will want to know whether this work has been freed of any possible copyright. (@Connor, please, publish this on MuseScore's cloud services, so this bureau becomes easier)
I hear a lot of John Williams, makes me think of Star Wars and E.T, and at the same time Snow White, really impressive ! You are really impressive ! In fact your music makes me think about a whole lot of movie genres at the same time and I like it very much.
This is great! One thing to note though: You need to give the winds time to breath. Especially the flutes, they go through a lot of air rather quickly. It's definitely an option to dovetail the flutes and have the oboe fill in the thirds in those soft 16th note bits.
Is anyone gonna talk about how 11:55 to the end feels like a beautiful homage to Hans Zimmer's work on POTC 3 with "The wedding" (at around 2:40 Here: ruclips.net/video/HausBTHSQnM/видео.html )?
dude i’m speechless… this is actually insane. if you ever end up actually premiering this piece PLEASE LMK im deadass i’ll fly out to wherever to play this😭 amazing work dude.
Agreed👍
I'm playing this piece like in 2 months
Why this isnt viral, i never hear something so beautiful
Really, never????
You dont hearing never Clasics Musicians:
Mozart
Beethoven
Haydn
Schubert
Brahms
Tchaikovsky
Dvorak
Or Movie's soundtrack composer as:
John Williams
Bernard Herrmann
Ennio Morricone
John Barry
Danny Elfmann
Howard Schore
Miklós Rozsa??
Wow... where are you the last 200 years? Jajaja
This is most definitely one of the best new compositions RUclips has ever recommended to me, and it's a testament to the piece that it can sound this great even in Musescore MIDI. The section directly after 260 (11:55) is just fantastic.
If you ever get this premiered, it would probably be a little noticeable that the trombone section isn't projecting very well when they're playing anything that isn't a unison or octave melody line. Generally trombones have a hard time projecting (despite the stereotypes) when playing with a full ensemble when it is written this low as a section, especially in regards to the 2nd trombone part. Bass trombone will have absolutely no issue being dominant by itself anywhere below or near the bottom of the staff, so doubling a lot of those parts on 2nd (Like all of letter O's voicings) or putting a perfect 5th directly in the middle of the bass and 1st parts (such as measure 255) generally will generally cause the 1st part to be drowned out since it's unsupported in a relatively low register and not get the section sound you are probably looking for. When it's non unison, generally having 1st/2nd over an octave away from the bass trombone is very standard and doesn't tear apart the section sound like it would in most other instruments. Don't be afraid of tenor clef in these kinds of loud sections, we can read it just fine and we like to play above the staff when we're allowed to. Bass trombone will do it's thing and project just fine without the help of the tenors.
But this is just me ranting about trombones, every composer utilizes the trombones entirely differently, and a unique sound is never a negative thing. The ideas and overall orchestration is fantastic and 99% of people will not care how the trombones are voiced or even notice.
I think this really depends on your trombone section. Maybe beginning amateurs won't be able to cut through but good trombones will easily overpower the rest, except maybe the other brass and the piccolo flute. Why am I so certain about this? Listen to a british brass band at the top level - even if the whole band is playing fortissimo, the trombones can always cut through the sound if they want to. And those players, even in the top bands, are not always pro players.
About the letter O, all the trombone parts are just in octaves and I think it's better practise to double the lower voices because the upper will be heard more easily any way. And in this case there is no reason for it to be heard more dominantly, it's just a colour/overtone to the lower melody. I don't think the trombones will have any trouble projecting anywhere where it's needed in this piece.
We're playing this for youth symphony this year. I'm really exited to play this. This has to be one of the most beautiful pieces I've ever heard. I especially love 4:33.
Me too, we're playing it for HYS!
@@TheLovelyArsonistI think we're in the same orchestra. YSII, right?
@@oboe_player-w2b Yep
I''m a violin player in the last row lmao i have glasses
Oh okay. Im the oboist who sits next to the flutes. I'll see you next rehearsal.
I agree with most of the commentators on this post - that you can do this on a computer blows my mind - (I'm an old musician from the 60's). The composition itself has a terribly fine amount of talented composition - the musical instincts are true and sound. I felt emotion, a sense of urgency at times, and, contemplative at others. At first, I thought there was a Mahler influence, maybe a dash of John Williams, but I gave up analyzing and just enjoyed the music. That, is what it's all about, for me, at least.
I hope Mr. Cowart has a long career, for his compositions will only get, (what's the word I'm looking for?), sublime?
Hearty Bravos for you, Mr. Connor Cowart!
There's no way you don't end up composing for films with this skill.
I hear all the greats, Williams, Horner, Shore, Elfman etc... in this work
The music is very well orchestrated, especially at climaxes. Something that you could definitely work on is the balance between knowing when to push the momentum and when to surprise the listener with something unexpected. There are moments in the score where the music suddenly pauses and it feels like everything that you writing before the pause worked for lost its meaning.
Another thing: It is okay to be inspired by other scores, melodies, and harmonies, but you need to be careful when doing it for multiple reasons.
1) The music becomes predictable. The chromatic motif at the beginning immediately told me that you would be quoting "Searching 4" a lot... I could basically sing the rest of the music you wrote before I heard it!
2) You lose an opportunity to develop your own voice. The Tchaikovsky Pas a Deux inspiration, Leia's theme from Star Wars, and Mahler Adaggietto are nice quotes, but be careful if you pass off a theme from something else as your own. It takes a long time to develop a voice, but don't get too comfortable just looking at scores and taking the same melodies.
My recommendation is that if you like a certain melody, maybe take it in another direction? Start in a different note and write it another way. This is what I do when I see something I really like a lot and want to write something similar to it. That way, you incorporate the qualities of whatever composer you are inspired by into your own style, further developing you as a composer.
Best of luck in your writing, I cannot wait to hear more!
I second these notes. The flow could be a bit smoother. Transitions are key. Excellently written! 👍🏽
That would be my main reservation...the meaning of the opening is erased by the Mahlerian turn that of course obliterates everything in its wake. It is one sure way to impress a large number of people is to write something Mahleresque...I was listening to this for the Musescore4 sounds and they are pretty impressive.
The orchestration is pretty deft and shows off the instruments here well. The content is good too, even if it is second-hand emotion. The transition at 4:32 is really awkward...you just need to carry one group of instruments at least through the gap here it seems to accomodate the shift. There is much impressive work here all the same and talent too.
@Brian Torres good advice. I'm in agreement. I see this a lot on RUclips and the composers are in their teens and twenties and very talented on the one hand, but have not had the listening experience to aborb enough music yet to have their own voice and they don't always seem to understand the bounaries in being inspired by someone, sounding like someone and taking their actual material and coopting it.
@@johnpcomposer Exactly!
@@johnpcomposer "A good composer does not imitate. He steals"
You have a great mastery of orchestral colors and sonorities, especially brass. Looking forward to seeing you continue to grow as a composer and see where you're heading, but this is definitely a young man's vision of epic music where his seeds of styles are bared and ready to build on.
Fantastic display of Musescore's new sound capabilities. And also a brilliant composition Connor. Well done!
I like your piece but I want to mention as a bass clarinet player, we don’t ever read bass clef and treble clef in the same piece. We are comfortable with ledger lines. If you want to use bass clef there is a specific way to use it by picking the specific instrument instead of the normal bass clarinet. It’s the same instrument but the way you write for the instrument is different. Instead of transposing an octave and a major 2nd lower, it’s just a major second lower. It isn’t very common but it is sometimes written like that. You shouldn’t mix the two clefs since it will most likely just cause confusion.
This is an excellent work. Ignore those that say otherwise, don't let them crush your voice or musical expression in order to make it theirs. I want to hear the musical story that you are telling and not the preconceived ideas I already have in my head from years of training. Break free and take me to where you want to go. There is no way to improve on this piece when it is how you currently think and feel. Thank you for sharing it withe me.
Im glad that RUclips recomended me this. Excelllent!
This absolutely deserves to be played live. Really hope you get the chance. This is amazing!
This is truly magnificent and inspirational, I hope I'll be able to hear this live one day !!
that reoccuring trumpet motif sounds very familiar to the opening of charles ives the unanswered questions! wonderful piece
This is really special. John Williams influences can be heard clearly here.
Wagner for me
@@teacake_94well considering john williams was inspired by wagner, its a fair comparison
Inspiring work, don’t stop sharing
Boy, you are extremely talented. What a beautiful work!
Young man, this is absolutely brilliant. I saw some of your other videos where you were playing French Horn, as well as playing some jazz standards on piano. Your musical future is blindingly bright. Bravo! (And I'm sure we'd all like to hear more of your superb orchestral work...pls post more.)
What begins at 1:35 is 😮😮😮😮. I was not ready for it.
This is stunningly gorgeous. I hear the late romantic influence. It's enough to make Wagner blush. Wow is this lush! ❤❤❤❤
But hasn't this already been written many, many times before?
@@franciscoaragao5398 who gives a fuck, if it works it works. Haven't we heard the same 4 chords for decades in pop music, how about it just music in general? Just shut up.
Dude, This is genuinely one of the best feelings I have ever felt while listening to. It sounds like the soundtrack to some famous timeless classic of a movie. Ok so I wrote this before hearing that stunning Andante section and uh, this is now one of my favorite pieces I have every listened to. This beats out some classical pieces for me. Now that I have listened to the entire piece, I am actually in shock and awe at how good this is. Now all I want to do is study music, I want to figure out why this sounds so good and find music similar. Thank you for reigniting my passion for composition.
I got some mad Wagner and Rimsky-Korsakov vibes from this piece, what remarkable work you have composed :)
Love the Strauss influence in the opening and Mahler quotations throughout! Great piece.
This is stupendously good! Especially that immaculate orchestration from 1:35 - 2:08 🔥🔥
Gustav Mahler in 1:41 - 1:51, Adagietto from fifth symphony !
@@lucianochaves6362 I knew that sounded oddly familiar!
Amazing I liked it very much!! Nice orchestration and colours! FANTASTIC!
This is sublime harmony and impeccable orchestration desperate for a melody.
Reminds me slightly of Ives the unanswered questions and a smattering of Mahler’s symphony no 10 first movement. Beautiful.
I came to hear a demonstration of Musescore 4's new sound engine/instruments, but by around the 2 minute mark, I wasn't even looking at the screen anymore, because I was so enraptured by the music! Very well done! You are very talented!
This is absolutely amazing! Your piece sounds like something you’d expect from one of the great composers or film composers like John Williams. Please keep composing and uploading!
I wish I had the energy and motivation to create a piece like this.
same
its the new year, go get it done.
@@daniellucas5940 Luckily I'm doing much better mentally.
@@Ivan_1791 glad to hear it. go make some music I want to listen. I know you got it in you
I have GOT to get MS4!!! This program is just incredible!!
Imagine exporting individual instruments, mixing in a DAW and masterizing. Sound improves greatly.
Great!!! Congratulations!!! thank you!!!
1:50 I can hear a little Mahler 5 Mvt 4 Adagietto lick you used here LOL. great work!
Very good nice tension and relaxing inspired by Mahler with your own sound language.
Holy moly! This is such a wonderful composition! It's so good! You compose like some of my favorite composers do.
This is amazing! I can hear a bit of ideas from the musescore demo Searching Four and I love your twist!!!
Sounds like a movie score. Beautiful.
The beginning is quite the hook! Nice work :)
Brilliant. Great composition, great orchestration
Amazing piece. I hear a lot of Mahler (among others) influences which is good! 🖖👍
Love all that stuff on page 8. Goosebumps.
quite speechless indeed
It was a very nice music. I want to hear new works again
Wow. Just wow. absolutely speachless the amount of work you put in to make such a work of art. Increadible, genuinly!
This is pure soundtrack!! REALLY impressive!
Man, the ending is glorious.
i dont know wich came first, the musescore demo or this but yours sounds significantly more epic and demonstrates perfectly what strenghts and weaknesses the new software has.
Beautifully composed and orchestrated. Musescore 4 may be free, but your talent and soul are priceless!
Lovely.
hi! i was just recommended this. This is amazing. It conveys the message really well too. Compose more please!
wow... this is incredible!!! what a world masterpiece
Incredible!!
aaaand subscribed. this is amazing.
Beautiful. Was this inspired by Musescore's Searching Four?
This really is an amazing composition.. I hope it doesn't get lost to the RUclips algorithm, it deserves some attention. Well done 🙏
Wow. That was amazing. Congratulations on an absolutely amazing piece.
goosebumps. Thank you for sharing this masterpiece. Musescore is definitely doing this justice. I'm inspired to keep working on my own music, thanks to you.
Young man. You have a great career ahead of you! You certainly must have a strand of Wagner's DNA in you, based on what I hear in "A Million Suns at Midnight"...keep up the good work...
This is very beautiful piece! I really hope to listen to it very soon^^
Mad respect for that one, mate.
Wonderful! Bravo!
how does it sound so good
This is incredible.
Great orchestration!! Awesome job on the composition.
I KNEW you were a Horn Player after listening.
Ηello. I'm from Greece and i would like to play your composition with theS Symphonic Orchestra that i'm working. Is it possible?
Of Course!
@@connorcowart8511 Perfect. How can we get sheet?
@@Sfgsssdf.grfrertyfff if you are a mere instrumentalist of this organization I would recommend you speaking with whichever department produces the scores there. If you'd rather not, I would transcribe and share it were you to prove yourself as a member of whichever orchestra.
@@dyadic Thank you for the offer. Are you representing the composer?
@@Sfgsssdf.grfrertyfff No, I'm not. But they seemed to agree with your intent of orchestrating this, and so I would not mind transcribing it- would just take an hour or so.
Still, I would recommend you to speak with whichever department produces scores for the orchestra in your organization. They surely will want to know whether this work has been freed of any possible copyright. (@Connor, please, publish this on MuseScore's cloud services, so this bureau becomes easier)
I hear a lot of John Williams, makes me think of Star Wars and E.T, and at the same time Snow White, really impressive ! You are really impressive ! In fact your music makes me think about a whole lot of movie genres at the same time and I like it very much.
Yes I enjoy.
Nice Connor! Definitely getting some late Mahler symphony and Wagner vibes! I think we met via Katey Luker. It's nice to see you on here!
Excellent.
Holy moly Connor. Mahler-type beat.
As a fan of John Williams this was fun to hear. Well done.
sounds like the MuseScore demo a little; it sounds incredible!!
Dude !! this is Genius, i'm so glad i found your channel, i'm a independant composer too, and this was impressive !!!
This is awesome.
This is incredible Connor!!
Very impressive! I can really hear the searching four inspiration peeking through at times
how did you get the balancing so good? when i use musescore none of the dynamics line up.
Truly a great work. Well done Connor, Well done.
Seriously cool!
This is incredible work!! I'd love to hear a real performance.
Fantastic! You are very talented.
This is incredible. I’m speechless, thank you :)
This is great! One thing to note though: You need to give the winds time to breath. Especially the flutes, they go through a lot of air rather quickly. It's definitely an option to dovetail the flutes and have the oboe fill in the thirds in those soft 16th note bits.
I think you will be a wonderfull carrer composing.
Love this.
Wow! This is amazing!
Daaaaaaang, chills
BEAUTIFUL!!!
This is incredible!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Impressive!
Keep writing:)
The muse sounds are impressive too!
Great composition! Is this inspired by searching 4?
Very impressive! Keep it up!
this sound beautiful! well done!
Is anyone gonna talk about how 11:55 to the end feels like a beautiful homage to Hans Zimmer's work on POTC 3 with "The wedding" (at around 2:40 Here: ruclips.net/video/HausBTHSQnM/видео.html )?
absolutely awesome! btw i love the ives reference at the very beginning! really suits and sets the whole piece up! :)
Bravo!!!!!
The beginning sounds a lot like Charles Ives’s The Unanswered Question. But good work!
that's what i thought! it is impossible not to recognize this intonation, anyways Connor did a great work
Damn that is fantastic!