Humoreske 2 & 3 for piano

These are the next two out of x humoreskes I plan to write. Please comment and tell me what you think!

The Bm requires some humor added to justify the title (IMHO), what do you think? And all the rest is great! Thank you!

6 minutes ago, MusicianXX12 said:

The Bm requires some humor added to justify the title (IMHO), what do you think? And all the rest is great! Thank you!

 

Thanks for listening! I should explain, the humor lies more or less in the ostinated note. First B, then F#, then A and so on. It's a humoreske, but a name better fitting would be burlesque. ;) 

1 hour ago, DirkH said:

Thanks for listening! I should explain, the humor lies more or less in the ostinated note. First B, then F#, then A and so on. It's a humoreske, but a name better fitting would be burlesque. ;) 

 

That’s great! However, the auditory impression in music should come first, shouldn’t it? The rest is left to the craft’s connoisseurs, what do you think? I am waiting for more compositions from you. Regards!

I like both pieces. The first even more than the second, beautiful harmonies. The score is a mess with all those large slurs everywhere. I don't know what is your intention. The way it is written is not possible to play it in many parts. In some spots the notes could be reached rolling the hand but it wouldn't sound the way you want because it happens too often and the sound here is quite "vertical", chorale - like. If I didn't care about that, I wouldn't upload the score. Or, if what you have in mind it's only the sound, be it playable or not,... then take a look at Conlon Nancarrow (if you don't know his music...).

Best!

Is it to be played in four hands?

2 hours ago, MusicianXX12 said:

That’s great! However, the auditory impression in music should come first, shouldn’t it? The rest is left to the craft’s connoisseurs, what do you think? I am waiting for more compositions from you. Regards!

 

You may be right. In that case, the title humoreske is also less important than the first impression.  ;) 

2 hours ago, Luis Hernández said:

I like both pieces. The first even more than the second, beautiful harmonies. The score is a mess with all those large slurs everywhere. I don't know what is your intention. The way it is written is not possible to play it in many parts. In some spots the notes could be reached rolling the hand but it wouldn't sound the way you want because it happens too often and the sound here is quite "vertical", chorale - like. If I didn't care about that, I wouldn't upload the score. Or, if what you have in mind it's only the sound, be it playable or not,... then take a look at Conlon Nancarrow (if you don't know his music...).

Best!

 

Thank you for listening! The score is indeed a mess, I apologize. With regards to the slurs, I made those to benefit the digital performance, so to make sure all lines were connected. The rolling sound is what I intended, partly because the bigger chords sound better in those places, and partly because I want to avoid a purely 'vertical' sounding piece. So the piece is intended for playing. I might make a recording of it sometime. 

1 hour ago, MusicianXX12 said:

Is it to be played in four hands?

 

 

See reaction above. :) 

It would be interesting to listen to a live recording! Thanks!