Christmas Suite

Dear everyone,

I come up with this (short) suite in response of @Left Unexplained's Christmas Music event:) 

The first part is written for 2 pianos and percussion, where I tried to apply serialism based on the "Joy to the world theme".

The second part is my improvisation on the "Silent Night" theme, with a violin. It is a Theme and Variation work. (I tried my best to score my improvisation)

Hope you enjoy it!

Best,

HoYin

I really liked the first one. Was almost reminiscent of Charlie Brown's Christmas. 

It's nice overall, though a few things to consider:
*the percussion notation on suite one is really confusing. If it allows, you should probably go into the settings and change where the notes appear on the staff. The use of x and open noteheads is also confusing.
*in suite two, you have some artificial harmonic G's, which is next to impossible, considering G is an open string, thus you can't press a finger down to make it. No need for "artificial" in those cases.
The development of themes was nice! I just kind of which they were treated a little bit less rigidly... the "surprise" section in the first suite is one such instance, where it doesn't feel like too much a rhythmic departure.

3 hours ago, jawoodruff said:

I really liked the first one. Was almost reminiscent of Charlie Brown's Christmas. 

 

@jawoodruff I am glad you like it! And that's a good mention of Charlie Brown's Christmas. I listened to that work and found some similarities: Crystal-clear, high register theme and Arrangement (piano+bass+drumset). Certainly jazzy right there. Also, I do appreciate the nice effect done with the piano by sweeping the strings directly at the beginning, which I haven't thought of applying such extended techniques to my works.

Btw, I was referring this video: 

@Monarcheon Thank you for your kind words... I am not too confident on notating the percussion part, and you definitely helped me on that:) And please don't mind my poor playing lol. I haven't touched my violin for a while and by improvisation I really... improvise.. without practicing or warm-ups haha.

I love the sensation of disjunction the first part brings. Quite good.