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Poéme for piano (scriabinesque style)


Nazariy

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Today I present my most recent work for piano. It's a "poéme" influenced by Scriabin. 

In about five minutes I tried to experiment with these typical sonorities, chords and textures, which lead myself to really strange paths what made me check few times everything to be sure about what was the intention and direction of every passage of the piece. I noticed that it's really easy (or at least it was for me) to go from central peiod of Scriabin to somewhat around Debussy and weird Jazz.
The form of the piece is A-B-C-A, quite traditional way but I intended the themes to really blend beetween themselves and in some parts you can notice that the themes reapear in fragments in other places.
(examples: the final motif of b.10 appears in bar b.36 and b.51-53
b.5 motif later in the recapitulation gets really expanded to the climax of the work being mixed with motif from b.19 in b.63-66
b.11 motif is developed into the C theme
also I let yourselves to identify motif of the first theme along the piece)

This piece was intended to be somewhat like a three mvts. sonata, then two mvts influenced by Scriabin 4, but finally I decided it to be in one being a "poéme". 
In the picture of the video you can see something near to what this piece suggests me. You are free to imagine from this point whatever it makes you feel and what story does it tell.

I hope you like it and wait for your comments.

 

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the atmosphere of the piece fits well with the image of the video, even though in some moments like 0:53 where it feels like the forest is opening and you can see beyond the woods, or other moments like the first and second climaxes (2:14 and 4:15) where it feel like the forest is collapsing on top of you. But you always manage to cool down during the climax and go back to calm without a massive explosion of fury and rage

I really liked the piece 

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Thank you for the comments!
@Jqh73o I get your point about 0:53, and still after these few bars the music gets its way to some "scarier" or "sadder" place. All the climax moments for me are mostly deceptive points because it almost never gets to a "certain place" (in terms of tonal triadic harmony), this is why it just fades away or doesn't get too concrete. The only climatic point that looks that is going to get concrete is from 4:00 and yet doesn't get it. 
Actually, thinking about it, I'm almost always thinking in somewhat "tonal" terms about this music but always being sort of evading tonic. My perception of most of the chords is usually almost functional and just adding extensions and altering chord notes to blurr the efect in the listening. In other moments, in the other hand, the polichords are completely different from this feeling.

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