Short piano piece

Here are three piano pieces I wrote nine years ago. Ironically, it's in the style of the "Sentence" via @luderart and @jawoodruff who are going to make this concept profound.  Also. this is one of the few times I wrote absolute music. 

I love the second one, it's super sweet. I can only imagine the effect it might have if performed by an actual pianist 🙂

The first one reminded me of Ligeti, but for the second it totally strikes me as Schöenberg, specially his Op.19 is pretty similar. For the third one I don't know what to say, it was both like Bartok microkosmos and the simplier Stravinsky at the same time. Good job!

These are very interesting short pieces @maestrowick, very similar to my concept of the sententia. And to think that you composed these nine years ago, two years before I composed my first sententiae and used the name 'sententia' for the first time!

7 hours ago, J.Santos said:

The first one reminded me of Ligeti, but for the second it totally strikes me as Schöenberg, specially his Op.19 is pretty similar. For the third one I don't know what to say, it was both like Bartok microkosmos and the simplier Stravinsky at the same time. Good job!

 

It was definitely composed from a row.  The likeness is completely uncanny since I only listen to tonal Schoenberg 😄

1 hour ago, luderart said:

These are very interesting short pieces @maestrowick, very similar to my concept of the sententia. And to think that you composed these nine years ago, two years before I composed my first sententiae and used the name 'sententia' for the first time!

 

I may have my first ones in a notebook somewhere.    I know I may have some violin sententiae somewhere also.  I'll keep you posted.

1. I think the problem with this one lies in the left hand. I think you could have really ran away with the material in measure 4. As others have pointed out, this does bare some resemblance to the Musica Ricecate of Ligeti. You should definitely check out this work if you're not familiar with it.

2. The second reminds me a little of some of Schoenberg's piano works. I think the use of octave displacement works -and will probably resonate better with a live performance. One thing to note: rests and silence can be powerful moments within this genre of music. I'd rework this to make the most out of each element.

3. This one seems to be a little more thought out in terms of material. The motif -and it's inversion- work quite well here. I think one thing that would help immensely is to displace the rhythm of the inversion -perhaps have it start a 1/2 beat after the start of the initial subject. This would generate a little more variety in the texture.