August 9, 20169 yr For a while now, I've been challenging myself to write a short piece every single day, with a very low time limit. This happens to be the 23rd, for solo piano, a Scherzo study in major 7ths and diminished fifths. It's not really my best work, but I was wondering what you'd all think.
August 10, 20169 yr Pretty powerful stuff! If this is not your best work, I wonder how your best work sounds. I like the first 23 bars better than the rest. Keep up the good work.
August 10, 20169 yr Author 13 hours ago, luderart said: Pretty powerful stuff! If this is not your best work, I wonder how your best work sounds. I like the first 23 bars better than the rest. Keep up the good work. Thanks a lot! And yes, I feel similarly... 23-52 always felt a little weaker to me, but in these exercises I try not to reedit things if possible.
August 10, 20169 yr Interesting stuff. I would agree that the first 23 bars are a bit better. The octave F# vamp immediately following it seems to me to go on a bit long, and that section is I think the weakest point i the music. Maybe it wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't repeated. Generally I enjoyed this piece a lot, and I'd like to see more of these. To have been written in one day with very little revision, it's great work. Writing a small piece everyday seems like a really good idea to me. I imagine you get the chance to explore lots of different ideas that way. Certainly better than my current method of slowly working through fairly large pieces.
August 10, 20169 yr Author 2 hours ago, fishyfry said: Interesting stuff. I would agree that the first 23 bars are a bit better. Coincidental that Sketch 23 has only 23 really good bars, eh? 2 hours ago, fishyfry said: Maybe it wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't repeated. I tried it out, and that was absolutely the problem. I don't know what I was thinking. 2 hours ago, fishyfry said: Writing a small piece everyday seems like a really good idea to me. I imagine you get the chance to explore lots of different ideas that way It's been really good for me; gives me an orchestration lesson everyday and a bank of ideas for larger-scale works if I need it. I absolutely encourage it, if you're at all interested!
August 16, 20169 yr Very interesting, reminds me of Lowell Liebermann's first, percussive works, such as Piano Concerto 1. If I were you, I would have explored more the melody between bars 27-30 as a contrast with the subsequent octaves in the low register. Very useful -and difficult in the last part- as a study in right hand stretching!
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