Prelude No. 1 for Piano Solo

This prelude was performed during my second quarter in the Composition Major. Very naive and new :-) This is also only my third or fourth composition to date, so please don't be too harsh haha Thanks for the listen guys!

Prelude No. 1 for Piano Solo

For being only your third or fourth composition, this isn't really that bad of a work. The spacing and break in your material is a bit hard to keep interest - but I love your use of harmony here. Very nice work, feel free to join in the review process and comment on the works of others... that will help bring more people to your work.

Nice work, Cyten :)

--I like the soft atmosphere of the piece, and the various dissonances through-out. (Is this being played live, btw? Sounds like it to my ears) It draws the listener into the experience of the music very well, as the piano sort of tells its tale (as the piece has a lyrical, flowing feel to it) :)

--What may benefit the piece, though, is a good melodic motif for the listener to latch on to, and then recall later when the piece is over, so that they can sort of "experience" it all over again. What you have is good, but with its wandering on the keyboard, it doesn't have a part that embeds itself in the listener's mind. As it is, it's wonderful to listen to while it's playing, but wouldn't it be nice to have the listener hum a part to him/herself, and then play the piece in his/her head mentally from that point on? It would serve as a sort of "jumping point", if you get what I'm trying to say ;)

Nice job! I will give it an 8/10 for the atmospheric beauty of the piece, but also taking into account it's out-of-sight, out-of-mind progressions. (If you uploaded a score, it'd likely get more attention from other viewers. Do you have a way of doing that?)

Welcome to Young Composer: I hope you enjoy the site and what it has to offer. Feel free to offer your thoughts on others' pieces, I'm sure they too will appreciate any feedback you have to say :nod:

Hey Cyten! Welcome to YC!

As you can see, I brought some people to review your piece. Now go comment on others' works.

I'm digging these harmonies at the beginning. Simple but different. Any chance we could see the score? What are you using to record this? Is it live or from a computer?

Man, I'm digging the polytonality with the chromatic right hand and the tonal left hand at 1:30.

I don't have much to say. It was a really lovely piece. You developed your motives nicely. You explored the modes you wrote in really well.

Keep up the good work, Cyten!

-John

Thank you all for your comments and criticisms. I'll definitely bear in mind the fact that this piece is a bit too fragmented in most of its movement. I tried to compensate for the spaciousness by making the texture of Prelude No. 2 more dense and continuous. Thanks again for everything, guys. I'll be sure to be more active around here. You all seem like a bright bunch :-)