Three pieces in G minor.

Hello Yc

Piece 1:

I love the soft opening, very poignant. The piece seems coherent to me, did you utilize the material in each section? Would love to see a score.

Piece 2: I love the somber quality of this one especially. Seems like a marriage of Beethoven and Chopin - very nice. I can clearly hear the form used and think it works.

Piece 3: Very longing and poignant as well... with a melancholy that I find irresistable. Very emotive and dramatic changes, I like it.

Have you ever thought about posting the scores? Would love to see this written out.

Thanks jawoodruff.

I don't post scores yet, because I consider these pieces educational. If i'd to make a score to all these pieces I'll take me quit a while to get to my goal. Which is to write around three pieces in every major and minor key. So by the time I consider my pieces artistic, rather then educational I will score them. I work on scores in finale for the ensemble pieces I write. So i think I will have the hang of it by the time I'm willing to make scores for my piano pieces.

Hi gijs,

The piece sounds a bit the same to me. There is a good feeling but missing a couple of things:

- i can't tell the measure 4/4, 17/4 ... whatever... meaning it is too much improvised

- please stop playing syncops all the time...., bass dis synchronise from the melody. That is boring.

- a bit static harmonically. Basically when you start A in Gminor, you may do the B in Dminor/major or Cminor. That usually give more interest to the music.

Hope my criticism helps. Keep composing and don't forget classics like Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin. Even it seems really natural, it is always strongly structured.

I listened to your first piece in G Minor. I found it to be quite beautiful and it reminded me very much of typical incidental music during a very sad scene. I could hear faint nods towards Romanticism (and Chopin in paritcular) throughout but this is certainly a 21st century work. Very lovely. Will listen to the others later.

i think that all 3 of them are really enjoyable, i like them, relaxing and sweet with that little sadness that makes u whisper.

just i would like a more consistent and recognizable theme, but other than that they sound all good :)

thanks for posting

i think that all 3 of them are really enjoyable, i like them, relaxing and sweet with that little sadness that makes u whisper.

just i would like a more consistent and recognizable theme, but other than that they sound all good :)

thanks for posting

Thanks. And i agree. I feel a memorable theme is one thing that is often missing from my compositions. I'm currently making theme's an object of study of mine. Or in less pretensious words: i'm thinking about theme's alot lately.

Okay! So...

The first piece sounds very improvised, however, natural. They are two different things, because improvising can be very show-offy and distant, while when something is natural it just "feels" good. However, that natural touch looses itself after a short while. I start to feel less and less being able to follow your piece; I think the melody is more of a "harmonic" motif actually than a melodic one. Overall, it gets kind of tedious.

Wow! The second pieces sounds almost like a direct quote from Chopin's Prelude No. 20 in C minor. Heheh, but I am not caring, since I've probably quoted more "similarly" in my own pieces. I do enjoy this piece, but once again, it feels a little too improvised; maybe it's just your performance? I CAN'T feel a tempo; there's too much rubato, too much that I can't really properly critique this piece. It has a lot of nice moments and transitions! (I am beginning to wish for a score, but as you've explained, it's kind of hard to do so.) Your pedaling needs to be cleaned up, and your chord spelling and chord "range" (how many notes and WHICH notes/intervals should be played in the left hand) should be closely monitored-- they're too close, mushy and "gooey." In short, all of your chords sound ugly and the left hand sounds very random with the low notes going at un-suspecting times (in a bad sense, however). But moving on, I feel that I-too-am starting to repeat myself.

And the third I am not liking. It sounds exactly like a continuation of the second movement. It's too improvised, and I am really beginning to feel that you just sat down (at the times you said you "composed" them) and started playing. There's no feeling of tempo (which is characteristic of improv.) and the transitions aren't great, and there's a lot of sloppy playing. I know I am not in the position to talk about your playing, but it's DISTRACTING from your pieces, which have gotten so much praise thus far. I am not trying to rip on these for the sake of being an donkey, but this just isn't good. How do you believe to come across as a composer, for any such reason or seriousness, when I-myself-cannot comprehend what is given? I don't feel any melody in any of these, I don't feel a harmonic theme, I feel no progression or transition from the seconds from your goal of Major to minor; it's bland, boring and I hope you take this to heart, both my commentary and your own work.

I would really suggest you give more of a try. Even the great composers tried to write a melody to go along with compositional studies of their own, so there's no excuse for ill-followable music such as this.

I wish you good luck in future works.

Okay! So...

The first piece sounds very improvised, however, natural. They are two different things, because improvising can be very show-offy and distant, while when something is natural it just "feels" good. However, that natural touch looses itself after a short while. I start to feel less and less being able to follow your piece; I think the melody is more of a "harmonic" motif actually than a melodic one. Overall, it gets kind of tedious.

Wow! The second pieces sounds almost like a direct quote from Chopin's Prelude No. 20 in C minor. Heheh, but I am not caring, since I've probably quoted more "similarly" in my own pieces. I do enjoy this piece, but once again, it feels a little too improvised; maybe it's just your performance? I CAN'T feel a tempo; there's too much rubato, too much that I can't really properly critique this piece. It has a lot of nice moments and transitions! (I am beginning to wish for a score, but as you've explained, it's kind of hard to do so.) Your pedaling needs to be cleaned up, and your chord spelling and chord "range" (how many notes and WHICH notes/intervals should be played in the left hand) should be closely monitored-- they're too close, mushy and "gooey." In short, all of your chords sound ugly and the left hand sounds very random with the low notes going at un-suspecting times (in a bad sense, however). But moving on, I feel that I-too-am starting to repeat myself.

And the third I am not liking. It sounds exactly like a continuation of the second movement. It's too improvised, and I am really beginning to feel that you just sat down (at the times you said you "composed" them) and started playing. There's no feeling of tempo (which is characteristic of improv.) and the transitions aren't great, and there's a lot of sloppy playing. I know I am not in the position to talk about your playing, but it's DISTRACTING from your pieces, which have gotten so much praise thus far. I am not trying to rip on these for the sake of being an donkey, but this just isn't good. How do you believe to come across as a composer, for any such reason or seriousness, when I-myself-cannot comprehend what is given? I don't feel any melody in any of these, I don't feel a harmonic theme, I feel no progression or transition from the seconds from your goal of Major to minor; it's bland, boring and I hope you take this to heart, both my commentary and your own work.

I would really suggest you give more of a try. Even the great composers tried to write a melody to go along with compositional studies of their own, so there's no excuse for ill-followable music such as this.

I wish you good luck in future works.

I think you pointed out what is lacking in these pieces. And you are correct. I do think, though, you should be aware how you compare these pieces. The first and second are first attempts of mine to write in a different style. I'm not going to explain it here in full, but I try to combine to indepedend voices without noticing the vertical harmonies. I think it has it's possibilities, but it's hard for me to get it right. Certainly on the piano were my playing affects the pieces as well. I can imaging that my attentions don't come across and thus leaves you hanging in the middle between that style i'm trying and the "plainer" romantic writting or, for parts, improvising.

I'm posting these here to get reactions on that style. I wanted to know how people persieve it. And thus far it is percieved as..well..read above. But like I said these were my first attempts.

About the second being a direct quote from Chopin's Prelude no. 20 is something I realy don't see. It made me question your credetials as a reviewer. But since you pinpointed everything else so accuratly, I might be missing something.