Second Scarecrow

Hello dear young composers.

Here is a little music inspired by some photos, which I took in Rouen, a city in Normandy where I often work at the opera, in the choirs.Sometimes the books are demanding to memorise, where they require a lot of presence on the set, sometimes less and leave me free time, as is the case at the moment.

I always take the opportunity to explore the lost corners, camera on my shoulder.

So I wanted to put some musical notes on these views, with a theme related to decay, abandonment, which is something that interests me a lot in photography because I find it aesthetic.

It is therefore close to a musical theme that I had called Scarescrow, even if here, we lean more into the melancholic side than into terror.

Thank you for listening anyway!

Hey Jean @Krisp,

I always look forward to your post here and in your YT channel! I have left a brief comment on YT and now I should be more detailed here.

I love the opening dissonance or bitonality very much! The sudden modulation from A minor to Eb minor is really surprising yet very moody. The next phrase would be in my favourite C# minor and for me it’s nostalgic here. another tritone modulation here to g minor! I love the murmuring here! Then the opening mood returns unexpectedly like a memory with the higher register of the piano. The higher register of the melody here gives a nostalgic feeling and reinterpretation of the distant memory.

It’s amazing that you promote an abandoned mood so enriched with different colours in just 3.5 minutes. It sounds like much longer given how rich the content is. Thx for sharing!

Henry

Hello Henry, and a very big thank you.

I had seen and appreciated your YT comment and I am all the more touched to read a more detailed comment here. It's a music that I wanted simpler than the previous one, a little like suspended from a wire, in a spirit of improvisation.

The goal was to try to find the right image/music distance so as not to risk overflowing into each other and for everyone to participate in what I was looking for expression

In any case, very happy that you like it.

Hello @Krisp!

The Clarinet sounds you're using are sometimes very bright!  So much so that I sometimes am fooled into thinking that it's a saxophone playing!  LoL  I love the delicate ppp passages in the range of the Clarinet in which such dynamics are the most effective and speak very easily.  The beginning is very surprising harmonically how you keep returning the melody to that b2 giving the piece a certain Phrygian flavor.  Overall a very unusual and unique piece!  Thanks for sharing.