Ballad in C major

Dutch pianist/composer
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Caged antique coin getting minted just by being glanced at! 

🎶✍️Music brings hope in darkness, poetry sheds light in verses.

Compositions for piano with some influence from classical music, American songbook, jazz and other styles.
All compositions written by Anibal Seminara.

John Tzinieris is a Greek composer.
He has been creating music for 30 years.
He has written hundreds of music tracks.
His favorite styles are electronic, classical and jazz.
You can find most of his pieces on the internet.

John Tzinieris can also be found on most popular social networks.
His music videos can be found on youtube, instagram and tictoc.
You can find more about him at his own website: johntzinieris.com.
Thank you for listening to my music!

I am a composer and producer of instrumental music in several genres, including ambient soundscapes, electronica, orchestral and chamber music.  

Musical influences include John Coltrane, Igor Stravinsky, Gustav Holst, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, Tangerine Dream, Robert Prince, Frank Zappa, Brian Eno, Heinrich Ignaz, Franz von Biber.

My Method of Composing and Producing
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I'm sharing my method of composing and producing music recordings in case other composer-producers like me might find ideas worth exploring in their own work. I use this method for Classical, Avant-Pop or Neo-Folk Instrumental genres, not for Ambient and Soundscape pieces. Non-composers might find this explanation interesting, but having a bit of music theory background will definitely help. I consider myself a humble learner when it comes to music theory. 

I owe a debt of gratitude to British musician and educator Gareth Green, whose Music Matters online courses and free YouTube lessons have taught me so much over the past few years. Thanks to his instruction, I’ve moved from struggling to compose music by trial and error to something more enjoyable and productive. The knowledge I've gained has taken my work in new and expanding directions. As the saying goes, “Theory is not a cage — it’s a map. It doesn’t make the journey for you, but it keeps you from getting lost.” 

When I start a new piece, I begin by choosing a key, and picking a scale drawn from one of these sources:
 
1) Western Tonal / Functional Harmony - major or minor chords I II III IV V VI VII
2) Modal Harmony - Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, etc.
3) Slonimsky's "Thesaurus of Scales and Melodic Patterns" 
4) Messiaen’s "Seven Modes of Limited Transposition" 

For many pieces, I also decide on a progression, one as a simple as I IV V, or something more elaborate.  

Next I create a "scales and progressions" piano track in my DAW (digital audio workstation software) and enter the chords I to VII in my chosen key. These harmonized scales serve as a basis for writing multipart harmonies and finding pivot chords for key modulations. 

At the start, I know what instruments I want to use, making adjustments along the way. I tend to write chord parts first, then melodies created through a mix of improvisation and direct input in the DAW. Sometimes I start with a melody.

I develop melodies and variations of a phrase by some combination of: a) passing it from one instrument to another, transposing it by an interval that sounds pleasing, b) reversing it, c) inverting it around the tonic (first) note of the scale. These are well-known methods. 

After completing a section, I choose another scale and maybe a new key and repeat the process until I have a draft of the entire piece. Then I export a recording and listen to it “offline”, take notes of errors and new ideas, and incorporate them back into the piece. Often this “compose / listen / compose” cycle is repeated many times. These iterative cycles include adding new ideas, polishing transitions between sections, changing the arrangement, and incorporating expressive details like accents, and articulations (staccato, sustain, portato etc.). I’m often working several different pieces at once. 

Last is mixing and mastering: balancing the loudness between instruments and adjusting elements like reverb, compression, and equalization. I tend to mix as I compose, even though many producers frown on that approach. I find mixing as I go helps me envision the completed piece and make adjustments to the choice of instruments; it self-inspires me when the piece is starting to sound good.  At the end I do a final mix, but as the saying goes, “A mix is never finished — it’s surrendered.”

In the end, this method gives me a basis for exploration and creativity and helps me stay focused. The goal is always to make a piece of music that feels expressive, cohesive, and emotionally resonant.

I live in Minsk (the capital city of Belarus) and work in IT-industry. I finished music school in 1981 and many years haven’t played piano for different reasons. In 2007 my daughter entered music school. I bought a piano for her and played easy but very beautiful popular music pieces. One example of that is
https://soundcloud.com/user-139055333/mikhail-oginskiy-polonez 
I played just for me to relax. Two year ago I realized that I sings in a low voice most the time without notice it. Sometimes it was a popular melody, sometimes – it seemed to be a new melody, at least I couldn’t remember the source. I worried that it is something wrong with me, but then I understood, that the music can help a lot. Playing piano help me to forget all troubles of a bad day and every even a small step of success make me happy
I like folk and classic musik.
Hier you find musik that connected with very  personal   events or memories and first song composed by me:
"In The Bewiched Kindom" (У зачарованным царстве)
Вы, хто любіце натрапіць 
Між страніц старых, пажоўклых 
Кнігі, ўжо даўно забытай, 
Блеклы, высахшы лісток, — 
Праглядзіце гэты томік: 
Засушыў я на паперы 
Краскі, свежые калісьці, 
Думак шчырых і чуцця.- 
Эти слова Максима Богдановича лучше всего отражают идею этой моей коллекции. Когда слушаешь, оживают образы из прошлого.
 "У зачарованным царстве" - это мой первый опыт в качестве композитора.

All scores available.
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Ballad in C major

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