For Christine

Hey, guys. Thought it was about time I uploaded some music for you guys to see/hear. This piece I had written for a friend of mine (who is an excellent pianist). It was completed about a year and a half ago.

Apologies if the recording doesn't match the score in its entirety. I didn't double-check to make sure that everything adds up.

Comments and suggestions, or responses of any kind are much appreciated. Thanks, guys.

A recording of the piece may be accessed by clicking here.

Matthew

First off, Welcome to the forum. Be patient and people will slowly warm up to you here. You are going about this right. Comment on as many people's works as you can and some of them/us will return the favor.

I will be honest with you, and say that in this piece, up until the beginning of page 3 I was bored to death. Keep in mind that I like fast music, fast cars and faster women.

At the top of page 3 you finally got my interest. You have some nice dissonances thrown in that I thought worked quite well. You picked up the pace, which I liked then youi lost me again when you went back to that original theme. I am sure that there are people who will like it, just not my style.

I also checked out your choral piece. On that I suggest if you can, to upload a link to a mp3. Notepad just doesn't do justice to anyone's works. It is not much better than just listening to the straight midi.

Welome again to YC

Ron

Hi, rolifer. Thanks for saying something. It's funny, because when I got one of my profs to review it, he said that I should have just concentrated on the first two pages of material instead of continuously inserting new musical ideas. He actually disliked what caught your interest.

If you don't have much of a thing for slower music, then you're out of luck as far as anything I write. A lot of my recent music is slow-paced; my earlier works are at a quicker tempo. But I digress.

Thanks for your comments. I took your suggestion and uploaded a sample recording for my other piece (which is also at a slow tempo).

hello Matthew

i can't but disagree with your prof what i think is you do have to concentrate, but on developing further on (musically), rather than on the first two pages

i think you have quite some ideas and maybe prefer to drift from one to another rather that picking two or three to form a single-styled piece. i think this is great, i'm sure your continuous search will lead you to a more closed form, without losing the potential for various ideas.

the first theme is lovely.

i like your balance between expected and unexpected harmonies in measures 13..23 (and later on, too).

starting from measure 36 you seem to either become minimalistic on purpose (which i have neither enjoyed nor understood), or maybe lack some techniques that will come with experience.

the slow part at 67 sounds very appropriate.

and sorry, i can't bear that ending, it's completely out of the mood, at least to me.

i wish you returned to where you started from (as i often do myself). the first theme is so soft and beautiful that one feels disappointed not to hear it again anywhere in the piece. just a thought.

overall, very lovely and promising piece. keep up the good work