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This score was conceived on the idea of building a chord using an interval pattern built as: Root (Any note) > Perfect 5th > Perfect 5th (from the prev. note) > # Semi Tone > Perfect 5th. I found that this gives you (X)min9 every time, regardless of what note you start it on. But built with intervals like this gives it a very wide, open, airy, ethereal sound that I just couldn't get enough of. Additionally, there is some personalized nuance included in the direction and theming of this piece, that is intended to depict a feeling of melancholy, mixed with a sense of hopefulness; It tells a story of losing one's purpose within their life, and struggling to find their way back to a specific goal again. I am having a difficult time sticking myself to a certain structure/form, and struggling to find more direction as to where this piece could go... Any suggestions or comments are highly appreciated :) Update: Have reached the final measure barline. Not sure if this is how I want to conclude. I also notice I don't have much of a bridge-like section, aside from the sudden but fitting change in left hand rhythm for a section... I'd like to have some sort of alternate melody section that then returns to the motif again for the end, but if it's fine the way it is, let me know. lol Aurora.pdf32468483.mp3

This original piano piece has very simple chords and melody, with the goal to create a soft, intimate and peaceful mood. Yet also with some underlying uplifting feeling and emotion. Simple, with 'stirring' quality if you know what I mean. Hope I achieved that. Let me know. 2019: This is an improvisation I made in 2019, recording live into my DAW without following the DAW metronome. So I had it in midi but measures do not follow a metronome beat. I couldn't record to a metronome anyway because there is much intentional rubato in this piece. 2026: Now I wanted to use a better piano sound and that was easy- just play the midi file with a good piano vst. The piano you hear is the UVI Model D Piano vst playing the original midi file I improvised in 2019 (with some minor note improvements) However what was not easy is creating the score! Which requires quantized notes. So I had a lot of work remaking every measure to have midi notes quantized, not for playing, but for the score. So the score does not play the piano but does show the accurate notes of the midi file that is playing the piano. Comments and suggestions welcome! score available for purchase at: https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/1956655/Product.aspx Follow score pdf:

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I get it! It's a choral arrangement, similar to the setting my college choir used! No need to worry about hand size. I just put it in piano score because I did it in two minutes.

Rachmaninoff? Look at my piano writing! Naw, I keep it simple. Great pianist/composers can write that "busy" stuff. Thank you for the compliment: I LOVE Rachmaninoff.

Thanks for the comments! I must admit, nothing was intentional 😅. If I recreated a theme, then it was purely by coincidence. The most obvious one to me is the Mendelssohn D-minor Trio main theme. I didn't mean to use the same opening intervals, as I originally started this work at 1:00am and was just feeling the half-asleep burst of creativity do it's thing lol. I personally used Khachaturian as my basis in the Development section. It did only take me three days to finish and once I settled on the Rondo form, I admit I just took the easy way of CTRL+C. This said, It did give me inspiration to do more with the whole theme, and I did sketch out a way to make this a three movement suite. "A Suite for the Dead" would be the WiP title. When it comes time to ship the finished product, I would want to reorchestrate a majority of this work. To be honesty, the more I listen to it, while as catchy as it can be, it gets stale outside of the harmonic changes. The more I grow as a composer, the more I have the feeling I can do more with this work too. Thanks again for the comments and I would love to chat in more detail about it sometime.

Hey @Alex Weidmann ! I love this orchestration - you've included lots of clever voice exchanges between the flute, oboe and clarinet that really create a kind of klangfarbenmelodie out of Mendelssohn's original piece. So great job there! I personally like your choices of pitched percussion in this piece - in my opinion the xylophone has too sharp of an attack and brings to mind Saint-Seans' usage in the Danse Macabre where it very effectively symbolizes the dancing of the skeletons and percussive effect of bones hitting the instrument instead of mallets. Vibraphone and glockenspiel are much more mellow and sparkly (respectively speaking) which I think is appropriate for this piece! Thanks for sharing!

Hey @MichaelJohn ! What a harmonically rich, bittersweet piece! It's full of longing and emotion and full of tons of creative harmonic choices. The harmonic identity also seems kind of ambiguous to me. The piece clearly starts in D minor and that's corroborated by the key signature, but you end in F major which is a nice hopeful ending! But I actually feel that most of the piece is in G Dorian. Very interesting - and you use plenty of F add4 chords which I really love the flavor of as a kind of backdoor cadence into G minor. Thanks for sharing this gem and I am grateful that you managed to create a good looking score as I really was able to appreciate the piece much more and deeply with the score. Thanks again!

Happy Birthday Free Sheet Music by Anon for Piano/Keyboard | Noteflight Your piece sounds interesting from a preliminary perusal...one would need a gun to make me write variations on Happy Birthday!🤣