If I could only do one thing all day it would be to listen and learn from your marvelous videos/tutorials. Repetition is good. Thank you for your generosity and sharing your knowledge and expertise in such an accessible way. I could compare it to listening to a beautiful symphony.

I feel like I have gone on a magical journey with a true artist. Thank you for sharing your love , knowledge and expertise.

Such a great, informative, easy to understand presentation. Thank you so much!!!!!!

Beautiful

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Such a great skill. Please make the videos available on a platform which doesn’t push toward the LCD so much as it won’t get the exposure it ought to

Waouh !! Incredible muscial and melodic lessons given here, thank you so much. Writing and playing rock/pop songs and music, i try to integrate some classical parts in our songs, and naturally I try to understand ( we can't say study, i'll need a whole life to this !) how all these genius made classical masterpieces. The gift you offer here is just very understandable by new becomers, even if writing notes on musicals lines in a real learning, we have some tips here to write it with midi system and Virtual instruments. I've just watched the whole creation of the 1st movement, it's amazing !! Thanks a lot to share this with many people. Very kind of you. Subscribed and going to watch and listen others things you have on your Channel. Thanks again Michael. Greeting from France. ;)

Amazing content!!!!

Very good, Master! Any video on how to set up a formal structure in a contemporary genre? Thank you in advance!

the andante is my favorite movement

excelente !!

excelente !

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excelent !!

"amazing, just like a goose honking"

There seems to be a lot of inspiration from the Russian national anthem.

Stealing, camouflage, variations is the way 95% of music writers do it!

Fantastic

i hope you don't die after this

Hey, could you continue this trio series? My wife and I are currently working towards our masters in composition and I primarily have been composing through composed pieces or post minimalism, I’m a big fan of watching your videos so please finish this piece for all our sake.

Quick warning: there is now a setting on KZbin called "stable volume." If it is turned on, as seems to be the default, it will ruin music.

OK, this is great writing honestly! I'd be interested to see what it'd sound like with a real orchestra TBH. This is a good reference, I'll have to study it a bit more deeply for my own symphonic composition stuff

Great tutorial! Might use this sort of thing for my own compositions. I'll admit, this kinda sounds Haydnesque in a way--like the 2nd movement of the "Surprise" symphony--was that on purpose?

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Beautiful work! Even if this is “just” a tutorial symphony (a remarkable feat in itself!) it’s genuinely enjoyable to listen to. There are some great tunes and quite ingenious harmonies here! Can’t wait to see what you come up with next, after a well deserved break of course. Maybe a 20th century-style symphony that delves into some post-tonal harmonic concepts and how you might tackle the “no form, no repeats” philosophy of your later symphonies?

You wonderful, this is so easy to understand.

Oops, forgot to mention, once upon a time, as you may recall, I asked about a piano concerto (not to rehash)....anyway, I wonder about the possibility of a string quartet tutorial for everyone.......

You might someday like to get one of your works recorded (for a fee) by one of those East European orchestras that does that sort of thing. Anyway, I like it, I really like it! (to echo a long ago comment of one Sally Field, Lol, but I really do!)

Can't wait till you do a Mahler style symphony 🤭

woah this is awesome so glad i found this l. definitely going to write my own movement like this

I wish you would do a video on writing in the chromatic style of Wagner', eg, "Tristan". Also some early 20th century British composers, especially Delius.

Very nice tutorial. Great share.

Thanks much, very inspiring and very useful/helpful, as always!

I bet that in the 4th movement he'll do a choral movement like ode to joy.

Omg thank you so much for this video. I'm a young composer, and I'm creating a symphony. I got stuck on the 3rd scherzo movement, but then I saw this video, and it's helped so much. I've been following your layout and structuring of the scherzo and it's turned out amazing. Thank you so much.

You're just incredible, how you clearly describe choices and options with infectious enthusiasm! I definitely gotta binge all your videos later.

Most Excellent (still, Lol)!

Thank you for your beautiful illustration of the orchestration topic.

how much are you thinking about the chord changes as opposed to the melody

Excellent video - do you have the midi files available anywhere? thanks

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Awesome movement! Can't wait to hear the finale

This is just fab, really enjoyed your composition.

Just wanted to say thank you for uploading vids like this cuz I’m very interested in how symphonies/orchestral music are made :0 I hope to become a composer one day, or at the very least, a person who can truly enjoy the tiny details in songs :]

Nice video! Do you think you could make a video where you review someone else’s symphony? I think it could be pretty informative.

Beautiful work! Can you talk a little bit about how you develop a variation? Once you have invented a variation on the basic theme, does the rest of the section flow from there kind of organically, or do you use other forms like binary or ternary nested into the piece to guide how the variation becomes a section?

Very clear and very useful. Thanks!

You MUST create a course which I would buy in a flash. This 101 video is diamond. Tremendous work.

Wow, I'm impressed. As someone who's always wanted to compose but has basically no background, what books / exercises would you recommend to get started?

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