Jump to content

All Activity

This stream auto-updates

  1. Today
  2. PeterthePapercomPoser started following Serenade No. 1 (Duet for Cello and Piano)
  3. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu started following Bagatelle No. 1 , Serenade No. 1 (Duet for Cello and Piano) and Pearl's Casting - "Should I teach in a public school?"
  4. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @Guardian25, I really like the quartile chords you use, this make the piece having a slight refreshing mint flavour in its tragic mood. The melody is very lovely and I like the mood. It’s simple but it’s touching. I think you don’t have to add the “4” above all the semiquavers! Also, given how expressive the cello melody is, you should add more slurs for it ( and for the piano)!! For b.29 and b.42 onwards I think it will be quite difficult for the cello to sustain the octave for so long a time! Thx for sharing! Henry
  5. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @Cafebabe, Basically the form of the piece is ABCA with the C section the longest. I really enjoy the modulation to C minor in the C section, but you should use Eb instead of D#! Beware of the redundant bass clefs in between! I think you can develop A, B and C section for longer. The A section is for me too short to be the main section when C section is longer and more attractive. The B section is too diminutive to have much attraction! It’s light hearted and in dance rhythm and for sure you can develop more on it! Thx for sharing! Henry
  6. Guardian25
    Here’s a duet I composed for Cello and Piano! I tried to make use of more “modern” harmonic ideas with this piece. Overall, I find it decent, and probably would change a couple of things. Any feedback is welcomed!
  7. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hey @PeterthePapercomPoser, I think these short pieces are really wonderful, particularly with your understanding of harmonic and tone colour! I really love the vibraphone here. When combining with the often whole tone harmony it’s so mesmerising (the same word I use for my last review on your piece LoL). The violin melody just comes from the same harmonies with the vibraphone, but the feeling is so different. The second to last bar’s scale is really nice with those reflection of a 014 set. Thx for sharing! Henry
  8. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @Jackie, Welcome to the forum! Very nice playing! The piece looks not too easy to play with! Even though the piece is quite similar to Chopin’s Revolutionary Etude, I quite like the energy in it. Thx for sharing and thx for joining! Henry
  9. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @Giacomo925, Long time no see! I share the same thoughts… my life these few months has been really busy, and I used the only time remaining for composing, so I had no time for reviewing any pieces here…. But now the piece is almost finished so I can review some posts here as rest! On the music, I love most the interaction of the four parts, as every part gets its melodic part. I always think Piano Trio hard to write, it’s easy to get the strings too thin, or making the piano overly hyped, or making the cello boring, but I think you balance well here! Getting to Eb minor in development is nice. Just the modulation from Eb minor tonic minor in b.136 to 138 ab bit abrupt for me. I remember does the same thing in the first movement of his Piani Quartet no.3, but he modulates from Eb minor to B major to G major and then C minor, and he makes use of the drama of the abrupt key changes (to quote @chopin’s video ! (Btw I forget you are named Chopin here….))! For the ending in tonic major, I hope there will be more struggle between the tonic major and minor! B.91 and similar passages can be difficult, but I think it’s playable. Thx for sharing. Can’t wait for the 2nd movement! Henry
  10. murphybridget started following Pearl's Casting - "Should I teach in a public school?"
  11. murphybridget
    Using cards and dice to guide instrumentation is really creative. Choosing the violin as the main solo instrument and the vibraphone for accompaniment based on the suits drawn adds an interesting dimension to the piece.
  12. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu started following Etude Appassionata
  13. Jackie
    Jackie changed their profile photo
  14. Jackie started following Etude Appassionata
  15. Jackie
    Thank you so much, Peter. Yes, I wrote it as a preparatory Etude for the Revolutiinary.
  16. PeterthePapercomPoser
    Hello @Jackie and welcome to the forum! The accompaniment figurations in this sometimes remind me of Chopin's Revolutionary Etude (the retransitition at 1:58 especially). I personally enjoyed the waltz like middle section the most - your harmony is very romantic and builds tension and emotion beautifully. The long leading melodic line is also very passionate. It only lets up into a little sweetness in the middle section which I really love. Thanks for sharing this wonderful piece! Great performance as well!
  17. Yesterday
  18. PeterthePapercomPoser started following Etude Appassionata , Pearl's Casting - "Should I teach in a public school?" and Bagatelle No. 1
  19. PeterthePapercomPoser
    I have another Muzoracle casting for y'all. (Muzoracle is a storytelling/divination tool similar to the Tarot card deck, but with cards with musical concepts and 12-sided Musician's dice and Solfege dice.) This time, Pearl asked the Muzoracle if she should teach in a public school: My interpretation of the cards and dice are displayed below. The instrumentation of the piece was guided by the suits of the cards drawn. Since the card on the left is a Minor 6th of Strings, I chose Violin as the main solo instrument. Both the card on the middle left and far right are in the suit of Percussion so I chose the Vibraphone to accompany. If you'd like to find out more about Muzoracle and how castings are interpreted go here: https://muzoracle.com/ This short representation of Pearl's Casting is about a minute long. The piece is in A, since the black 12-sided Musician's Die landed on that tonal center. I then made harmonic/melodic underdrawings that I used in the composition of the music. Since the solfege dice landed on Me, Le, Re and Se this corresponded to the tones C, F, B, and Eb. I then used the interval cards to elaborate on the harmony in the ascending or descending direction according to the casting: In order to give the piece some harmonic and melodic contrast, half way through I transposed these figurations by a Minor 6th down since the casting is descending overall and the first card drawn was a Minor 6th: If you've gotten this far, thanks for reading and I hope you enjoy listening to this short chamber work I wrote to represent Pearl's casting. Comments, suggestions, or critiques are of course, always welcome.
  20. mazeth
    Hi @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, Many thanks for having taken the time to give me your feedback, that's very much appreciated, and it will definitely help to improve! Does it give a feeling of "too many things packed in one"? Or on the contrary, is it too repetitive? Yes, I wanted to create an effect of voices answering one-another Maybe you're right, I will give it a think! I played a bit around, and went for A natural, followed by A#. Thanks for the tip Absolutely, I'm not super good at spotting those mistakes -> all corrected 😉 ! Take care, Julien tableau 5.mid
  21. Cafebabe
  22. PeterthePapercomPoser
    LoL - that was mandated by the voices card! I had to include some kind of voice! You mean her true love? LoL 🤣
  23. Luis Hernández
    Overall I think it is a great job. Maybe it could be a little more careful in terms of dynamics. One thing that strikes me is that there are moments in the low register where the chords in block sound very closed. That seems to me a little out of style. Apart from that, in general, it is something to "avoid". Another thing that I don't like very much and that I observe many times, is the speed of the first movement and the third movement (in this one less). It seems excessive to me (that's my taste). There are many works where the speed is justified. I don't know, it's an appreciation.
  24. Jackie
    Jackie joined the community
  25. Jackie
    Hi, this is my first advanced piano solo composition . Would love some feedback. Thank you.
  26. barko
    I really liked it. No suggestion except keep exploring. Let's have another.
  27. pateceramics
    Thanks, Henry! The Washington Heights Community Choir just sang this on Broadway 😲 and then again in Brooklyn, so I felt like, in case those performances generate any extra interest, it would be good to have some fresh demos for people to take a look at. Even if that means they need to hear me singing autotuned bass. Glad you enjoyed it!
  28. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Yo Peter, This one is so goddamn mesmerising just like love. It’s tricky, addictive, dreamy, a bit horrible, just like your music here. It’s so amazing that you come up with so great of the harmonic colour and timbre for a random theme. Like Vince I am in awe with the theme and left hand piano, but I am also in awe with the flute and dreamy echoing right hand of piano. The only thing I love less is the voice haha. I mean, even a gamelan would have been better than the voice!!😝 Thx for sharing! Btw hope Jamie finds his true love! Henry
  29. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @Some Guy That writes Music, I finally have time for this one! I had longed for listening this one but I had to compose my music so I reviewed nothing here. The beginning section sounds peaceful, but you introduce a lot of colours here and make it interesting. As we are both featured in Mike’s video, I really love the Ab modulation Mike quoted. I have to note that, you do prepare for that modulation introducing an Ab in b.90. And it’s fxxingly beautiful here. For me the section is more in F Aeolian. It’s so fresh here and the themes are so beautiful. Maybe in b.204 the sustained brass like the trombone is a bit too loud and overshadow the woodwinds and strings, until b.218. The 218 passage is so grand and I love it very much! The military theme is less in my liking, but again b.285 theme is so freakingly beautiful. B. 308 bassoon is nice! That modulation back to C major is so goddamn beautiful!!! One thing is that I think the F minor section is somewhat a bit too long and suppress the original C major too much for me, but that’s subjective. The ending struggling is really great and push that one final climax at the end! One of the great things here I think is that I never feel boring in any of the 18 minutes despite knowing that there are repetitions. Your orchestration is so good to create the aura and atmosphere! The themes are simple, but the effect is so great. I am in awe of this piece, congrats for this achievement! Thx for sharing! Henry
  30. olivercomposer
    Thanks for your comment. I appreciate your perspective. The song is more focused on Faust's inner struggles rather than his romantic relationships. I aimed to create an epic metal song that delves into his inner turmoil.
  31. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @pateceramics, We have countertenor, and thx to you we now have countersoprano! I love the modal feeling here. Those parallel fifths and octaves add the feeling of it. It’s so English here. I like this! Thx for sharing. Henry
  32. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @olivercomposer, Even though I didn’t read Goethe’s Faust, I like Faust and Mephistopheles. They are cute. They really represent Western culture and thoughts, even though they are extreme version of it. On the music using Bb minor and Neapolitan sixth is great for the evil theme. Btw where is Gretchen? And where is Helen? I find their love with Faust great! I remember watching an old silent film on Faust and Gretchen’s love and I loved it so much. Thx for sharing! Henry
  33. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @ajd6553, The music is quite yummy to listen to! It will be perfect if it’s background in a restaurant! I wanna eat! Henry
  34. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @Cafebabe, I find the first movement quite Mozartean. It certainly reminds me his A minor Piano Sonata. I think in the development you can invite more modulations, instead of lurking around in A minor for a long time! It’s the key of the 2nd subject so it will be somewhat less interesting staying in that key for a long time. The end of the development is very much like the end of the development of Mozart’s A minor Sonata. Modulating to tonic major in recapitulation before going back to tonic minor in the 2nd subject is quite interesting. The second movement is very much like pieces in “the Children Pieces” which I use to teach my students! It’s light hearted. Using Subtonic major as 2nd movement key is quite interesting. The third movement is quite exciting. The modulation around b.75 is interesting, but the move to six flat key signature is not necessary. Is the movement in rondo form? I find the materials in there is somewhat less organized. For example I find the chorale section in b.127 quite unrelated with the movement! The vivace fugato is quite confusing as the transition to it and from it is quite abrupt. The ending however is quite exciting! I am quite nit picky here, but you probably compose much better than when I was 16 years old! Congrats for writing a multi movement work! Henry
  35. Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
    Hi @mazeth, I think the piece is quite Baroque with many sequences and similar figuration. The hand crossing is interesting. I love your attempt for the modulations, for example in b38, but I think they can be smoother rather than just having a chord! For b.90, maybe having an A#-A natural bass will be smoother. I think the Db in the first section should all be C# since it’s in d minor! I think some of the expressions can be deleted since only one is enough for each staff! Thx for sharing. Henry
  1. Load more activity
×
×
  • Create New...