January 31, 201115 yr Hi guys. I've been away for a very long time. All kinds of stuff came up, so I took a break from composing for a while. But now I'm back, and I hope I'll stay this time :P Anyway, this piece is a few months old. I was having some trouble sleeping, and looked out my window, and saw the moon. I got the inspiration for something in more of a dark mood. I also wanted to try a little more classical approach to this one. You might hear some influence from Kingdom Hearts in the beginning. It's short, but I hope you like it nonetheless. Nocturne n°1 EDIT: Changed the key from Bb Major to g minor, didn't see that one... Thanks, apocryphal_oboe! Edited February 9, 201115 yr by Nicrion
January 31, 201115 yr It's interesting to me that in your notation, you use the Bass Clef with the 8vb instruction an awful lot here. I personally like to see those bass octaves go deep into the bottom of the staves :lol: This is a really nice, atmospheric work. I like the little touches you put in your piece to make more emphasis on freeness of playing rather than rhythm in this case, like the changes in measure at measure 8 and 9, and the rit. articulation at measure 11. It makes things pretty unmistakable to the performer that this is a mood piece :) Nice work! :happy: Thanks for sharing :nod: I'd love to see you make a whole series of these :D ***I'd "like" your work, but the YC Network is not allowing me currently***
January 31, 201115 yr Author It's interesting to me that in your notation, you use the Bass Clef with the 8vb instruction an awful lot here. I personally like to see those bass octaves go deep into the bottom of the staves :lol: This is a really nice, atmospheric work. I like the little touches you put in your piece to make more emphasis on freeness of playing rather than rhythm in this case, like the changes in measure at measure 8 and 9, and the rit. articulation at measure 11. It makes things pretty unmistakable to the performer that this is a mood piece :) Nice work! :happy: Thanks for sharing :nod: I'd love to see you make a whole series of these :D ***I'd "like" your work, but the YC Network is not allowing me currently*** Haha, it's because my sight reading sucks a little, so it's basically for reading it easier :P Thanks so much for the reply! I had actually started on multiple movement sonatas and whatnot, but I'm sorta stuck right now...
February 5, 201115 yr Nice! great mood, im particularly fond of the beginning i would LOVE the theme at measure 6-7 to be more developped,even if only for a few measures, keeping it a little and work it out would add to the piece.
February 8, 201115 yr Overall, I like it. I'm questioning whether or not you've analyzed your own work, though. The piece is definitely in g minor, not Bb major. Also, there are a few 'reading' issues with your chords (see measure 5 for one example-the third of a D major chord is F#, not Gb). The ending, as far as what I hear in my head, sounds unresolved, because your final chord is D major, V in g minor. You need a fermata and a soft g minor chord at the end. Unless you were going for the unresolved feeling, which may or may not work. That's an artistic decision my taste would argue against, but I'm not you.
February 9, 201115 yr Author Overall, I like it. I'm questioning whether or not you've analyzed your own work, though. The piece is definitely in g minor, not Bb major. Also, there are a few 'reading' issues with your chords (see measure 5 for one example-the third of a D major chord is F#, not Gb). The ending, as far as what I hear in my head, sounds unresolved, because your final chord is D major, V in g minor. You need a fermata and a soft g minor chord at the end. Unless you were going for the unresolved feeling, which may or may not work. That's an artistic decision my taste would argue against, but I'm not you. Now that you mention it, you're absolutely right, it should be g minor! The thing is I almost never analyze my sheet music. I go by feeling and the way it sounds. Which key I choose to display in the title is chosen simply by looking at the flats/sharps at the beginning of the staff, which usually causes me to go with a major scale, since they are usually the more obvious choice. I guess the same thing can be said for the ending. It was all about the feeling. I never really took all these rules that seriously... ^^" So I can't say the ending chord was planned or not. I was just going with what felt right at that time. Thanks a lot for the comments! Now I know what to look out for, notation-wise, the next time I write something! :D
