Theme and Variations (WITH PDF!!!)

This is a group of variations that I have made about a month ago. These variations might not seem like they correspond with the main theme at first but if you begin to think about them they fit perfectly. Each variation takes on its own unique character that should be easily notcible so hopefully you enjoy.

Wellll I finished this piece and its actually meant to be by itself now people please listen this is one i don't think you can miss

Finale 2007 - [VARIATIONS NEW].pdf

VARIATIONS NEW.MUS

Variations.MID

pdf please, then I'll give it a listen :)

Vince

PDF

does anyone want to comment?

i like the streaming mood of the first variation lot. most of the rest are also very creative and interesting. i should give it a closer listen in a while.

Thanks thats one of my favorite too. But if you have anymore comments please hit me with them bad or good.

PLEASE LOOK AT THIS

Every composer thinks differently about music.

Score:

- Every page starts with [Title]. ???

- The score could use clean up here and there (call me the score-doctor!)

- It would be nice to see titles such as "Theme" or "Variation I", "Variations II" ect.

Music:

- Pardon me. I don't understand some of the variations at all. Do I understand the piece? I wonder what did the composer wanted to say to the audience? I have no idea.

- Sometimes I get a "tonal" feeling and sometimes I get an "atonal" (or something far fetched) feeling. I'm not sure if it is a good idea to use both in one piece (whatever you want to call the harmony)

- Often the variations don't flow into each other.

MIDI:

- Nice MIDI okay! I liked that!

This is a very good piano piece. I liked the way you write for piano! Personally I woudn't play the piece.

This is not my piece of cake. Someone might come by and like it immensly though! Thank God no critisicm is absolute! You should never stop composing!

I didn't listen to it all, as I got bored. It was well written, but it didn't leave any thing with me. Most of it was way to fast, I couldn't even find a melody. My favorite part was the beggining, it was nice and smooth and left me singing it, but then the cluttered second part made me forget it.

My advice to you would be the following. You have written it well, you obviously know how to compose, but you need to compose something more like the first part that is recognizable and nice, instead of the confusing fast undistinguishable other parts. My final thought was "What do these variations have in common at all?"

let me just say i completely disagree with most of the aforementioned posts...

this piece is quite well written and the variations are fairly easy to follow... (even the quasi atonal-ish one) (although there's no such thing as atonalism... its a misnomer) the theme sounded almost Chopin-ish... and then you cycled through a variety of techniques... i personally have no problem with a piece "adopting" "atonality" for part of a section... in fact i think it helps introduce people to "atonal" styles while giving them something familiar to hold on to... even in the 7/8 section you could still feel the general shift of the opening section.

this piece however could use a good editing session (or two)... you have some great material, most of the variations are well constructed... the last few were a little underdeveloped (i'm thinking specifically of the section marked "flowing" and the one marked "grave"). Flowing was a little stutter-ish and grave simply wasn't grave at all... it was slow.

my other complaint, and this is a complaint i have with many many variation pieces (including my own) is that they're are often no transitions between the variations, so they can become predictable. (here's a riff on the idea... here's a cadence... new variation... cadence) i think if you went back and really worked on the transitions so it wasn't so much a "stop/start" motion it would really add to an already well written piece...

keep up the good work...

The piece is very well written. I like your chord usage in the main theme although it's sometimes hard to distinguish the theme because it's so complicated. The second variation was very cool. Don't be afraid to use a known and trust cadence to provide a little more continuity for the entire piece. Overall it sounds like fun to play.

I enjoyed this piece; however I am struggling to identify the theme.

Maybe it's just me but if I compose a theme and variations I want to make the theme clear, such as Alkan's Le Festin d'Esope:

The theme is clear and identifiable in that piece. I feel your variations are great though!

Please don't take this personally. I really like it other than that minor incovenience regarding the main theme. Maybe it's just in my nature?

Well for the people who said that the flowing between variations I totally agree that they are well unflowing and that is something that I am trying to work on and I have recognized that. But, as for the actual variations I like to push the limit on how close they are to the main theme as I saw Brahms seemed to do this more but I just went a little further but they are related to eachother. I thankyou all for your comments