Nocturne No. 1 in Db major

This is my first real submission. I wrote this in about 4 days. Normally it takes me a while to write, but this is a fairly simple format, so it went much quicker. This is the easiest piano piece I have created to this date. This also is my first "slow" and expressive composition, and although the piece is serious, it is supposed to portray something special and delicate. I hope I was able to achieve that!

nocturne 1 in Db major

Edit: Added score

nocturne1.pdf

This is gorgeous dude. Very very nice work...did you use software to compose this, or your piano? It sounds like you are playing with your fingers (recording into midi), either that or you are very deft with the details of your software composition program. Have you written many works like this?

I think there are a lot of nice ideas in here but may I make one comment? It would be cool if there was a section that changed tempo and went into major or something and got really impassioned, something like that, for contrast.

Brillant! I hear Chopin's influence in every bar and every note of the piece, yet I also hear a distinct voice that you are carving for yourself--and I loved every second of it! Please keep composing such great music (I added the file to my playlist!).

I believe that this piece would benefit more than most from a live performance... the emotional qualities that I believe you are trying to portray could be so greatly captured live. An initimate exchange between performer, composer, and audience would evolve that would truly create a unique feel within the room!

Congratulations!

I think there are a lot of nice ideas in here but may I make one comment? It would be cool if there was a section that changed tempo and went into major or something and got really impassioned, something like that, for contrast.

I just read all of the posts and previous comments about the work. This on in particular struck me because I strongly disagree. I think that, although contrast may work, in this piece the consistent rhythms and the brillant lyrical melodies would be harmed if you fiddled around too much with tempo changes and constant major to minor shifts.

It's amazing that this is the simplist. How did you just jump into composing without building from simple beginnings? I did the same - though my most complicated is no where near as good as this - and now I'm considering writing simple, like child songs, so I get a better grounding.

Definite Chopin influence from the get go as cavatina said. It's truley beautiful and more rubato from a live performance would make it more so. I agree with Derek though in that it needs a contrasting section, Chopin always had one and it always gave way for a refreshing return of the theme. The theme wasn't very prominant in this and I like it that way, I feel a night piece shouldn't have a dominating theme, takes away from the idea of background music.

I envy your talent :P

Very nice work.

It had a Chopin like touch to it no doubt.

It had a certain story telling nature to it

which I admire alot in music. Even though the

bass had a certain swaying cradle effect it

didnt seem to be overly repetitive.

As to the color of the work it was very charcol.

Like a very dark, windy and misty night by the lake.

Sitting on the shore with the waves about 4 to 6 feet.

You can see the light of the moon at times as the clouds

pass quickly. It seems any minute the mist of rain would

stike your cheek. As you sit there you think in

a tranquil like state over the matter on your heart.

Again, very nice work.

Jeremy

I really see that Chopin influence, but I also see that voice shaping well. The worst time I had with it was is really finding a center, though it resembled one, but I didn't feel that was strong enough.

(Great job on putting it in Db, most composers I see(even myself) would never attempt a key like dflat, Chopin loved the flats and the flats really create a mellower sound)

A poet, do I show it?

I try my pen now and then.

I wasnt aiming for poetry,

just explaining what I see.

Jeremy :D

This is awesome. This really reminds me of the Nocturne's that the real Chopin composed. Good job.. I'd love to hear more.

amazing simply amazing

i have to say invisionary i read the descrption of the piece while the song was loading and it seemed to make the piece even more beautiful upon first hearing it because it was exactly like you said.

The scene in my mind and the music with it just created something amazing for me.

Anyway, amazing job chopin.

I have no critiques to add to it. =\

Very Gorgeous use of rythmic Scales, Chopin is the main influence here no doubt.

Hey we've got all these great Piano Solos, How come I can't find any Violin Solos?

I'd really like to know if there's anyone who writes solos for Violin

Anyway

Encore! keep up the good work

Very Gorgeous use of rythmic Scales, Chopin is the main influence here no doubt.

Hey we've got all these great Piano Solos, How come I can't find any Violin Solos?

I'd really like to know if there's anyone who writes solos for Violin

Anyway

Encore! keep up the good work

i plan on eventually writing some, my next endeavor is to take on the instrument and get lessons from my current piano teacher [she also teaches violin]

Then maybe i will start writing solos for it.

i plan on eventually writing some, my next endeavor is to take on the instrument and get lessons from my current piano teacher [she also teaches violin]

Then maybe i will start writing solos for it.

Good luck with the violin. I've heard it's one of the hardest instruments to become proficient on. Good luck with the solos, as well. There's a lot of art in that. Writing for an unaccompanied string instrument in a compelling manner is something like counterpoint, I guess. One has to choose one of the ways that best outlines an underlying harmony while preserving the beauty of some kind of melody. That's the way Bach did it, anyway. I suppose one could do it in a less exacting fashion. But I think it would still be pretty hard.

The score for this piece:

Nocturne in D flat Major

Simply beautiful, and peaceful. You manage to pull of a pattern in the right hand which is engaging.

Nice Work!

I love this...Great Job!

A beautiful nocturne. Capturing the tranquility of the night...excellent work!

This is lovely. Really very well written - although you say it's simple, there's never a dull moment.

wow, i like the simplicity of it, and i cant believe how you made all that dissonance and chromatisism actually fit quite nicely:O

amazing...

hahahah, banned

I like how you smoth from one point of your work to the next. It is like you are on a cloud! Good work!!!!!

Finally listened to this piece, found via the wiki. Incredeibly close to the grace and aristocratic mien of Chopin himself. It lacks some of his natural feeling of form, I must say. With Chopin, there is a balance of structure and expression, of melancholy and gladness, that is uniquely his own. I envy your ability to write such great, Chopin-like ornaments. I still can't. I also envy all the other aspects of Chopin's piano style you have absorbed. Still, I wonder if there is anything within you that is held back by such close imitation of the great composer. Is there no Porcaro?

God..

Is there anyway I can get like an mp3 or something of this?

It's soothing to the soul, and tranquil towards the mind.

Man.. D:

(I'm serious about the mp3 dude)

Is this not gravedigging?