a forgotten aqueduct, crumbling slowly

The second movement of my piano suite. It'll be released as a full piece in about a week or so, but this is my second favorite movement in and of itself! I know it's based off of some prime form I was working off of, but I don't remember what it is now 😅

@Monarcheon I can't wait until the whole movement is finished!

Very nice @Monarcheon! Harmony and Rythm reminds me of Ravel's piano Works.

Aw, this piece is so sad! (Is it weird that now I have feelings for a crumbling aqueduct?) Great visual—I had no trouble "seeing" what was going on throughout the piece. Impressionistic and wonderful, in my opinion! I'd love to hear the full suite!

On 8/10/2019 at 5:20 AM, Guillem82 said:

Harmony and Rythm reminds me of Ravel's piano Works.

Thanks! There's even a half-Debussy quote.

Wonderfully creative. Can't add much to what the others have said above. Whatever made you think of the title? Did you set out with the title and try to visualize it? Or did you think of the title after composition?

I like it very much. The way you take advantage of the register of the piano is beautiful. I also like how "tonics" are established by using pedal notes.

Thank you all!

On 8/19/2019 at 2:57 PM, luderart said:

Whatever made you think of the title? Did you set out with the title and try to visualize it? Or did you think of the title after composition?

Formalist as I am, the title is mostly there as an interpretive suggestion (i.e. I, just like the audience, am free to interpret the music). It's not programmatic music so it's what I see when I listen to it 🙂

Great work. I hear familiar chords stated with sophistication and subtlety. I like the independent, almost unrelated, rhythm of the lead line. But most of all I like the equanimity of it all.

On 8/27/2019 at 12:59 AM, Ken320 said:

 I hear familiar chords stated with sophistication and subtlety.

 

Agreed, it's very remarkable how you've taken often-used chords and managed to make them sound otherworldly and expansive, not just through the literal timbre range of the piano, but also through thoughtfully constructed poly-rhythms. It'd be all too easy for a piece to sound too loose and unfocused (even as a purposefully abstract kind of piece) when there's constant changes in note values on every beat, but you really managed to add a feeling of freedom to the music without sounding like it's just meandering for the sake of meandering, and it shows a lot of care and consideration went into how you wrote the piece.

Very beautiful, atmospheric piece of music. Thanks for sharing with us! 😄 (It'll be awesome to be able to hear the rest of the suite!)

@Ken320 @SergeOfArniVillage Thanks to the both of you. This suite was my own personal challenge (much like your "Beginner Piano Pieces", Serge) to be a little more compositionally subtle (although the movements certainly aren't easy!). 

This piece as the tranquilness of "un sospiro" but reminds me of Debussy also.

Measures 39 to 45 should be expanded.

Great composition @Monarcheon

On 3/7/2020 at 10:23 PM, maestrowick said:

This piece as the tranquilness of "un sospiro" but reminds me of Debussy also.

 

Measures 39 to 45 should be expanded.

Great composition @Monarcheon

 

Thanks very much. The whole suite this piece is used in is also up, if you're interested.