Fantasia No.1 in Db Major

OK. Well, last night I finished the Fantasia that I've been working on for about a month. I had a pretty big brain block for a while, but I finally overcame it and finished up the Fantasia. In this piece I did something that I've never done before (though it is quite common); I began in Db Major, and ended in C# minor. The Climax of the piece really occurs in the C# minor section just before the end, and the piece ends with a pretty angry tone, almost completely the opposite of how the piece begins.

The beginning of the piece focuses around a main reocurring theme that is elaborated on a few different ways throughout the piece (the last being the main theme stated in C# minor).

One thing that I experimented with in this piece was modulation. At the bottom of the 2nd page, and a good deal of the 3rd page, I really tried new modulation techniques that I had never used before... some of them I found to be quite effective.

Around 3:00 into the piece, Finale decided to go weird on me and always slow down for some odd reason (I tried several times to fix this, no luck). Anyway, the important thing is, I sat down and learned this today, so I'll try and record it tommorow... definitely will have a recording of me playing it by Sunday night...

I attached the score (PDF) and a recording of the file as an mp3.

Comments/Critiques are encouraged and appreciated!!!!

Enjoy!
-mp3- (fixed link)

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*applause*.

Surprisingly, I do have a critique. As amazing as this piece is, I really thing it could use more...er...tension. More dynamic contrast maybe? I dno maybe it's just finale.

9.4/10

~Nico

If only the link worked. Not sure if its just on my end, but yeah, it dont work.
Can you just post a midi?

Jeremy

I gotta take a shower really quick. I'll get a MIDI up when I get out.

MIDI Attached. Also, cousins are in town today and one of my brothers came home from College today, so I'm gonna make a recording tommorow.

It was a finely constructed work, and a nice looking score.
It's nice to hear some nice sensible works here.

You said you were making a recording, will you play it live?
I would like to hear it if you do.

Nico said, "I really think it could use more...er...tension. More dynamic contrast maybe? I don't maybe it's just finale.

I think in this case it could be finale, as a live performance with some timely accelerations would definately give the work some dynamic and perhaps create that tension.

Jeremy

Thanks a lot Jeremy. And to answer your question, I will be playing it. My piano is a little out of tune, mind you (the tuner had to reschedule), but you'll just have to bear with me on that!

yeah dude. see..he said A LITTLE ACCELERANDO.
Yeah, yeah, that's right. Yeah.


FACE!


still a-ma-zing though.

Ah, no worries. I don't mind people even messing up (a little bit) when they play. I just loving hearing live performances.

Jeremy

This piece is extremely easy, so I doubt I'll mess up (not trying to sound arrogant).