A piano piece. Sorry, no MIDI

I've been aworkin' on this here piani thing!

Any comments are appreciated.

Piano.MUS

It's should be in 12/8, not 4/4. The current form of notation is absurd.

That takes too much work but I see what you mean.

Not everyone here uses Finale. I don't, presently. You're likely to get more responses if you can find a way to convert to midi, or use a program that exports to midi.

Not everyone here uses Finale. I don't, presently. You're likely to get more responses if you can find a way to convert to midi, or use a program that exports to midi.

Hence the title Paul

On your piece Schu

I liked it, but I guess that's because I love both Rachmaninov and Schubert, both of which I heard in this piece. I agree that the time signature should be different, it would be a tad easier to keep count in. I felt that the piece sort of got weak around measure 25, but it then goes back to the very strong melody with a slight variation. One thing I noticed is that your melody is sort of offset, this is fine, but IMO it sort of makes for a start stop melody, which kind of bothers me. But in the end that's your choice as the composer

Keep composing

Will

I agree totally with the 12/8... it woundn't take that much time to correct... you just have to change the metric to 12/8 and delete the triplets and add a dot to your quarter. The 'most difficult' would be to add the 2:3 duolet (duplet?) when you have two eight or a dotted-eight and 1/16th. By making these corrections... you won't do the same mistake twice ! :)

Before mes.13 I think everything goes pretty well together. But at mes.13 you fall from romantic setting to classical setting - and a not very rich one - maybe you should find a more coherent way to work on the materials you first presented. You can chose to work a dialogue between musical styles but that must be clear... which is not what you intended I guess here since it's not clear.

The two first themes are very interesting... already with only that you can make at least a medium short piece of 5 minutes or so. You should concentrate on these. About this section : make sure that when you tied two eight in a triplet to put a quarter instead... it's more easy to read. Always put a final dynamic after any crescendo and diminuando... at the end of the mes.4 you should put something like 'ppp' below the last note just before the very well found 'f' of the next one. That's a kind of contrast that works very well !... maybe you could work on this more in this piece !!... that the main strength of the materials you've presented according to me.

Have fun !