Autumn Leaves

This is an ode to Joe Hisaishi.

I listened to his "Quartet" album and there is one perticular interesting piece in that album: "Lover's Rain".

I completely took over his orchestration and came up with this:

Autumn Leaves

The use of Harp, piano and strings is magical! The only difficulty lies in finding the chords and the melody. The rhythm is pretty straight forward, all whole notes. After all the chords were found I just looped it randomly again and again at different points in the score. It just happens that all those chords can follow each other in a random way, it always sounds good. So odd...

Mind you, it isn't Autumn Leafs but Autumn Leaves, meaning that winter is coming.

I think this piece is pretty nasty!! If you happen to like this, you'll like Hisaishi's album 'Quartet' too.

This is very beautiful. No technical complaints here. A clarinet would fit well in there, but you wanted it for strings & piano, right? Even without it though, it invokes the feel of autumn perfectly.

One more thing... is this an arrangement or an original piece? It wasn't really clear in your post.

This is an original piece of mine, with its own melody and harmony.

The orchestration is the same based on the piece written by Hisaishi. Too bad there aren't any samples of 'Lover's Rain', I would gladly upload the piece, but that's illegal and cutting away half of the piece costs time, which I don't have right now. (I also don't have any download and upload capacity at this time)

I could see this in a Myazaki film. It was really relaxing and there were some intriguing chords that made it very interesting. I think it sounds perfect with just piano and strings personally. The simplicity of that combination just sounds right.

Maybe I just haven't heard enough Hisaishi, but I found this more interesting than a lot of his work.

The harmonic language is intriguing yet accessible, and the instruments blend together wonderfully.

One quibble is the rigid implementation of "one chord per bar" doctrine. If the work weren't so harmonically engaging, this would probably result in tedium, which is to say that by changing the rhythms up a little, the piece could be even better.

All in all, really impressive work. I really think you should consider lengthening this and developing the existing ideas.

P.S. Please share a score!

Here's a score:

And about the harmony of Hisaishi, I'd recommend Piano Stories 2. There is really beautiful harmony there.