Reported Speech (Adagietto)

This is an exercise about subjects I'm studying now.

While the winter comes...

Reported Speech Partitura completa.pdf

Wow. Ten out of ten, really.

You described the winter well, you used the piano which is, in my opinion, the best instrument to describe the winter with.

The harmony is interesting, the rythm is interesting, I don't see a single flaw in it.

*Can you please explain what "reported speech" means? English isn't my first language and I guess it doesn't really mean that you gave a report on a speech.

Thanks @Rabbival507

English isn't my language, either. It's Spanish. Reported Speech is a grammar issue

Reported or indirect speech is usually used to talk about the past. We use reporting verbs like 'say', 'tell', 'ask', and we may use the word 'that' to introduce the reported words. 

She said, "I saw him." (direct speech) = She said that she had seen him. (indirect speech)

The title is a metaphor of expressing emotions in an indirect way.

I thought no one would like this piece. I usually go away from tonal/functional harmony.

If you are interested in how this was made: it's a little study on mixing different harmonic languages one after the other with smooth transitions. I used Pitch Class Sets, poly chords, linear harmony, traditional modal scales and other scales, and harmony by 4ths / 5ths. There is no functional harmony here.

This is the score with notes where the harmony sequentially changes. I have to work more on this... I'm also interested in using those different idioms at the same time (vertically), but it's a different approach.

polyharmony Partitura completa.pdf

@Luis Hernández

Thanks!

What are these "Pitch Class Sets" you''re talking about? 

Care to do a master class about it?

Or a little personal class to me if you don't want to do a big lesson?

@Rabbival507

The Pitch Class Set Theory is a harmonic languages developed in the XX century in which the most important is the intervalic relationships between the elements of the set (pitches).

The starting point is a series of pitches (from one to twelve although you can do little with only one). Let's say: C - Db - F - A... this set is defined by the intervals between the notes (minor second, major third, major third). There are lots of different operations and relationships you can do with it. Transposition, inversion, complementary sets, subsets, supersets, Z-related..... and a long etc....

In summary, it's a different way to organize the pitches to write music.

And no, this is not a music you make "by chance" and where "everything is OK". You must control it to express what you want, and not the opposite.

From 1900 on, there was a Big Bang of musical languages... (Not only impressionism and atonalism).

I really appreciate your harmonic language, and the thought you clearly put into your music. This is quite expressive, lovely to listen to. Keep writing!