Portraits of a Nightingale

Hello everyone,

This piece is a collection of five short movements for piano that I wrote without much technical preplanning, but rather the intention of depicting a good friend of mine: Carah A. Naseem. I began composing the work in July and finished in September, however, all movements were composed weeks apart during two-day emotional catharses of sorts.

On an analytical note, the piece contains extended tonality and untraditional chords as well as some frequent changes in meter for the sake of expression. Most chords were built off major and minor chords, without tritones or augmented chords for an organic effect. On the contrary, I kept the form VERY simple. Please let me know if you believe that I overdid it, as well as any other criticism that you have.

Enjoy.

John Misciagno ? Portraits of a Nightingale ? Free listening at Last.fm

NOTE: The pieces use very softer dynamics with the exception of the ending. I wouldn't recommend listening to them at high volumes.

Portraits of a Nightingale.pdf

Bump to this thread for keeping it too long.

A very nice charming set of pieces. Don't have *any* time for further feedback, but hope to get back...

Yeah, not bad at all... :thumbsup:

Sometimes the harmony gets a little contradictory like some Satie, or even Gorecki (not talking about the Sym.3) mainly No.1

No.3 is very nice ...

you could write a very decent Piano Sonata if your develop your mouvements into a little larger sections ... (maybe you already have and I don't know :D )

The end of the 4th ..... :hmmm: I don't know ....

5th ,,,, yeah, definitely Satie .. well not the Violent part.

Thanks for the input.

SYS65, you're absolutley right about the Satie influence; mostly in movements 1,3, and 5. The other movements were written with a different emotion in mind, and the harmony just kind of happened. I also see your point about the end of movement 4. I'm gonna work on it.