Evil Humoresque For Violin and Piano

Yo.

This is a little, uh, ''ditty'' for violin and piano. Simply structured - using a compressed Sonata-Allegro form, it introduces two subjects, repeats them, plays a section that doesen't quite know if it's new material or development, and then repeats the first subject group.

I'm curious for some impressions. Do you find it enjoyable? How would the piano-violin relationship in this piece work in a real setting? etc, etc.

Tata..

This is more of a "mischevious humoresque" than an evil one - I can hear the sarcastic laughs in the violin tremolos. In general I liked all the special effects, the trills in the piano, the pizzicato in the violin. I think that this would also work well live. It sounds like it's well written for both the violinist and the pianist - as long as it's in a decent key for violin, since I can't really tell by hearing (unless putting it in a strange key makes it more evil or something).

I didn't feel satisfied with the ending however. It came very abruptly, and the final major chord felt out of place considering the context of the entire piece. You might try spicing it up by adding a few extra non-chord tones in that last chord, a la Prokofiev. This will make it more mischevious, or evil, sounding and more in line with the rest of the piece, which in fact does sound very Prokofiev to my ears. Also, you could make the ending more dramatic by either getting loud or soft quickly, ending either grand and loud or soft and playful. Either way, I think it would work.

Nice work!

Why, thank you! Nice to see someone noticed. A few points:

This is more of a "mischevious humoresque" than an evil one - I can hear the sarcastic laughs in the violin tremolos.

Yes, gnomes! Gnomes are evil, don't you know? Actually the ''evil'' part is that I thought very classically while writing this (i've attached a score if you want to look closer at motivic construction, form - etc), but made sure to keep the material my own, thus making it very evil classical music!

I didn't feel satisfied with the ending however. It came very abruptly, and the final major chord felt out of place considering the context of the entire piece.

Issue adressed in attached MIDI!

Again, thanks.

Rather nice piece Letehn(hidden lover). I only have one thing to say right now though. Instead of repeating you should change the violin part a bit. Just to keep the ears interested.

Hey Letehn.

I've been looking forward to this since you mentioned wanting to write it (them).

Is this one of a series? (you mentioned wanting to write several evil humoresques) Seems like a good start.

I'm not going to write a ton because I son't have too much to say that hasn't been said.


I am intrigued by the piece, I want to hear you really go for it with the violin part, like b-duck said - vary the main themes more when they recur. If you have more humoresques in the series, I look forward to them. fun stuff.