November 14, 200817 yr I recently played Goldberg Variations and discovered that slow music can be extremely beautiful. I always thought that toccatas and scherzos were the nicest pieces, but after listening and playing the Aria of Bach's GBV I wanted to make a slow piece too in a very expressive style. I didn't make an mp3 yet, but here is the midi file already. It's supposed to be played very slowly and with expression. Like this: :sadtears: Harmony I got from Kabalevsky and Prokofiev. Twilight.mid
November 15, 200817 yr its nice. nice job creating the atmosphere. but what do you mean by "i got the harmony from Kabalevsky and Prokoviev"?
November 15, 200817 yr Author If you listen carefully to the second movement of the piano sonata (I think the second) of Kabalevsky you'll hear exact the same mood. Everyone knows Kabalevsky took ideas from Prokofiev's sonata's. I know for sure the second sonata, second movement of Kabalevsky was based upon Prokofiev's 8th sonata first movement last part. Anyway, I love both composers! And I was in the mood to write this song in their style. 1:37 is in the style of Prokofiev's piano concertos and is my favourite part of piece. 1:47 uses Kabalevsky's harmony. Dissonant notes come from Kabalevsky too. 0:53 uses the succession of Prokofiev kind of chords. I searched it up and hey what do you know! Sonata 8 was written in 1944 and one year later Kabalevsky came up with sonata 2 in the same style as sonata 8 of Prokofiev. It could be coincidence of course, but I don't believe it is coincidence. As a whole I think my song sounds like Halloween music. Apparently I thought the song was better orchestrated, so I added: - violin - harp - timpani - celli - contrabas - pan flute Here's the mp3: Twilight PS: I almost forgot, I got ideas from Yoko Kanno too, (cfr. Ragnarok online 2: "Red Wolf"). My ending is based on that piece.
