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[The Azure Tree Stands in Mourning]

NinSheetMusic's latest arrangement contest just announced winners, so now I can finally post this!

The Azure Tree Stands in Mourning

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/8784501
• Google Drive .mscz: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1EQ32l2bPnZ6VMNSgs7byGP0CykBGkegI/view?usp=sharing
• Google Drive PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dlVyqWKvttXCVItWEYarCtb_pR8MoTQD/view?usp=sharing
• Google Drive MP3: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AONkZuZxayqLdQa2aLvVliclDc9ldBbr/view?usp=sharing

It's a more relaxing, "de-bossified" arrangement of "The Azure Arbitrator", the final boss theme of The Legend of Heroes: Trails to Azure.

Might be redundant given the post above, but here's my latest composition - the jazz-influenced Waltz No. 2 in C Major!

[Waltz No. 2 in C Major]

Welp, looks like I hit the character limit for the 1st post - here's where my latest compositions are listed!

Classical
Waltz No. 2 in C Major

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/8589662

Composed for a contest, this jazz-influenced waltz is based on a not-so-orthodox chord progression involving ♭VII-V.

Sonata-Allegro in C Major ("One Start, Many Paths")

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/8940730

Like some others, this sonata-allegro has a monothematic exposition...that actually has its first and second theme groups both diverge quite quickly from their shared opening phrase, just like other monothematic sonata-allegros. Therefore nicknamed "One Start, Many Paths", this piece is syncopated, energetic, and optimistic.

Sonatina in G Minor

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/9858289

This light Scarlatti-like sonatina is not too demanding and is reminiscent of a lilting dance.

Slow Minuet in B Flat Major

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/10422310

This slower-than-average minuet carries its own elegance and grace.

Prelude in G Minor

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/11044255

This march-like prelude keeps a stiff upper lip but is fairly easy to play.

Quick Dance in D Minor

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/11385973

This swift dance makes dancers go at breakneck speed!

March in E Major

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/14285737

This Neoromantic march has some daring key changes.

Prelude in C Minor

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/14679319

With its rapid-note runs, this prelude can be tricky to play at times.

Sonata-Allegro in E Flat Minor ("Alla Scherzo")

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/15288961

Composed for a contest, this sonata-allegro is in the style of Chopin's scherzos.

Etude in G Sharp Minor ("Quintuplets")

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/17729239

This etude helps you practice quintuplets, occasionally with nasty cross-rhythms with the left hand.

Scherzo Classico

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/20032225

This lighthearted scherzo echoes the style of early Beethoven.

Concert Band & Marching Band
Rolling Along March

• Musescore (Original for Piano): https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/12025420

In the style of turn-of-the-20th-century American marches, this march indeed merrily rolls along.

Ragtime
Trick-or-Treat Rag

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/8804865

This shockingly deliberate rag, composed for a contest, aims to evoke the atmosphere of trick-or-treating during Halloween.

Jazz
Jazz Miniature in E Flat Major

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/10792174

This jazz miniature gently prances around.

Golden Surge

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/11225404

This Kapustin-esque straight jazz piece constantly heads towards a brighter tomorrow.

Jazz Miniature in A Flat Major

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/33835180/scores/11167363

This jazz miniature, while stodgier, still ambles around gently.

Desert Trip

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/12444454

Mostly based on a short B-C chord progression, this jazz trio piece sultrily weaves around and has an extended solo.

Cream Soda "Rag"

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/12879643

Influenced by Billy Joel's Root Beer Rag and Max Keenlyside's Caffeinated Rag, this straight jazz piece bounces along with foxtrot-like rhythms at a breakneck pace.

Jazz Miniature in D Flat Major

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/16408513

This jazz miniature gently ambles around.

Rock/Metal (Includes Crossovers)
Toccata No. 3 in C Minor ("Record Speed")

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/10036267

This classical-rock crossover piece blasts by at record speed.

Inflamed Story

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/14823010

This piece is influenced by the works of the bands Sound Horizon and Linked Horizon.

Worship
Uplift

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/19485577

True to its name, this is an uplifting worship song for solo piano.

Video Game Music Loops (With Special OST Endings)
Beachside Races (Racetrack Theme)

• Musescore (Piano Transcription): https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/9463828

This is a tropical beach racetrack theme for a hypothetical racing game that does not (yet) exist. Yes, it's Mario Kart-influenced. Bars 40-52 (everything after the repeat) are the OST-only ending.
Despite being subtitled as a piano transcription, no other arrangements of this piece currently exist.

Carnival Round (Carnival Stage Theme)

• Musescore: https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/14560621

This is a carnival theme for...any carnival, really. They could even be real carnivals!
Bars 33-48 (everything after the repeat) are the OST-only ending.

Cupcake Hero CST (Concept Soundtrack)

Spoiler

Results Theme

• Musescore (Piano Transcription): https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/14019550

It's just an innocent results theme that plays after the victory jingle. Bars 17-18 (everything after the repeat) just might play as you exist the results screen.
Despite being subtitled as a piano transcription, no other arrangements of this piece currently exist.

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My first 8-bit composition (although I have tried an 8-bit arrangement before): 8-Bit Credits! Yeah, it's for a hypothetical video game.

Back to my more typical high-strung Classical-Romantic style - here's my latest piece, Sonata-Allegro in C Sharp Minor ("Three Keys to Perdition")!

The first jazz solo piano piece I've composed in a while...here's Call to All Dancers!

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Count me in as a participant!

Here's my newest piece: Scherzo Intruso! Beware: this contains some particularly intrusive and out-of-place notes....

Hey neat, my second ever F-Zero piano transcription!

My transcription of "Illusion" from F-Zero: GP Legend
https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/8266481

F-Zero: GP Legend

I still ended up simplifying the right-hand part of Bars 54-61 and pretty much any measure with 32nd notes in Beats 4-4.5 only, omitting some high notes, moving some accompaniment notes around octave-wise to make them easier to play, and adding some other notes that correspond to drum beats.

Note that the only differences music-wise between Bars 10-17 and Bars 54-61 in the original are the presence of a high part and the (slightly different) drumming in the later passage - thus Bars 1-17 being for the left hand only. (Bars 1-19 always somehow have no really low notes in the original, anyway.)

Honestly, I'd support stripping the "Latin" from "Arrange a track in a Latin or Latin Jazz musical style" and just ask for a jazz arrangement! There are tons of jazz sub-genres, ranging from slower and relaxing to lightning-fast and hard-swinging to even more avant-garde ones.

On a related note, we could ask for a two-genre mashup, rather like "Pokey Means Business" and the fairly sharp contrast between its more Baroque/typical 8-bit introduction and its heavy metal looped portion...and both sections' use of some of the same musical material.

Decided to compose a more typically classical music-style sonata-allegro this time, including the classical era's occasional tendency to start the recapitulation of its sonata-allegros in the subdominant key instead of the home key - here's my latest piece, Sonata-Allegro in G Major ("Subdominant")!

In general, you can use arpeggios at otherwise impossible held intervals. Arpeggios are assumed to go up by default. If you're not using pedal, though, you might be safer off using grace notes for the lower notes of the impossible "held" intervals and keep regular notes for the higher notes.

https://vgmdb.net/album/264 says that "Holy Land" is by Luna Umegaki only. Should shorten those composers' credits by quite a lot.

This is my first transcription of a song with lyrics!

My transcription of "Fight the Knight" from Sonic and the Black Knight
https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/8218667

Sonic and the Black Knight

I simplified all the glissandos in the original to 16th-note runs because I found those glissandos pretty hard to play and pretty unconvincing at the piano. I also skipped some accompaniment notes (generally ones more noticeable in the all-instrumental "strings" version of this boss theme than in this version with lyrics) and added some notes corresponding to drum beats. Accompaniment notes may have had their octave positions adjusted.

I'd appreciate help for this one, too.

My transcription of "MECHA BEE DESTROYER BLASTLORD" from Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling
https://musescore.com/user/9996931/scores/8190116

Bug Fables: The Everlasting Sapling

This transcription - or at least the current version of it - has one of the toughest left-hand parts I've ever put in a transcription in Bars 8-22. I'm barely able to play it myself at full speed, and inaccurately at that. Wondering what the best compromise for that section really is, since I still want to keep the lower melody that comes from Bars 1-8, and putting it one octave lower didn't sound that attractive when I tested that...

Beats 3-3.5 of the bassline of Bar 58 were simplified (there are 4 repeated 16th notes in a row there in the original). The quietest (and often highest) accompaniment lines have also been omitted in places (notable examples - the G minor and C sharp minor sections). Some notes have been added that correspond to drum beats, the bassline may be sketchy in places, some accompaniment notes have been moved around octave-wise...