Hypnos

I am looking for feedback on one of my compositions
 

https://musescore.com/user/53049012/scores/20469397 This is the muse score you could use it as an audio.

 YouTube also works as audio

Hello @Fruit hunter,

Welcome to the forum!

The opening sounds very Stravinskian for me. A great whirling of texture and harmony. The microtones brings in a weirdly hypnotic effect too, and I like the use of the Crotales.

What does Alla Ninna Nanna in p.12? The second section sounds fairy music to me and I like it. The Lydian/ whole tome Twinkle Twinkle Little Star sounds funny, but then the stravinskian Hypnos comes in and the crisis is partly solved.

The Andante Serioso section sounds like Gamelan for it me at first. I like how you end with the opening figure.

For me the music is more like a series of dream quite unrelated to each other, just like our dreams which develop unexpectedly. What is the composing background of the piece?

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Henry

@Henry Ng Tsz Kiu Alla Ninna Nanna is translated into as a lullaby having the second movement, acting like a lullaby, which eventually gets out of hand   The background for this piece was actually inspiration from another piece of music where I looked at the performance notes and I saw the word psychedelic colors.  Based off of that, I composed this piece with that word in mind.

Wonderful texture/color ... lovely change of pace as it moves towards the end. ...

Mark

Very neat and beautiful orchestration. Sounds quite modern with various influences, I think. 
For example, the way of harmonizing with mini-arpeggios or tremolando is great, because it avoids excessive statism.

Hi @Fruit hunter!

I love this piece!  I think the most obvious memorable section is the Alla Ninna Nanna where you set the well known Nursery Rhyme in multiple different interesting modes/harmonic contexts including Lydian, Phrygian and even Locrian!  Have you heard Ernst von Dohnanyi's Variations on a Nursery Rhyme for Piano and Orchestra which uses the same theme as its basis?  I loved that piece so much that it inspired my Variations on Deck the Halls for Piano and Orchestra (I basically used that piece as the model for my piece).

Your score is full of interesting orchestration techniques including the very brief microtonal inflections in the middle of it.  I have recently gotten into microtones more and I feel like you could have incorporated microtones more fully into your piece without ruining the intent of making a basically consonant soundscape that I think your piece is.  Like @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu mentioned, some of those soundscapes sound Stravinskian, even cinematic sometimes, I'd say.  Some of the score reminds me of the soundtrack to the Matrix.  I perceive the piece to be divided into 4 movements.  I think the 1st and 2nd movements are my favorite and most memorable.  For a piece that mostly lacks recognizable themes (besides the Alla Ninna Nanna), it really commands the attention!  Great job and thanks for sharing!

P.S.:  Besides reviewing others works, I'm sure the reviewers of your piece would really appreciate if you gave them a ❤️ or a 🏆 for their efforts in reviewing your music!  (myself included ofc LoL)

15 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hi @Fruit hunter!

I love this piece!  I think the most obvious memorable section is the Alla Ninna Nanna where you set the well known Nursery Rhyme in multiple different interesting modes/harmonic contexts including Lydian, Phrygian and even Locrian!  Have you heard Ernst von Dohnanyi's Variations on a Nursery Rhyme for Piano and Orchestra which uses the same theme as its basis?  I loved that piece so much that it inspired my Variations on Deck the Halls for Piano and Orchestra (I basically used that piece as the model for my piece).

Your score is full of interesting orchestration techniques including the very brief microtonal inflections in the middle of it.  I have recently gotten into microtones more and I feel like you could have incorporated microtones more fully into your piece without ruining the intent of making a basically consonant soundscape that I think your piece is.  Like @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu mentioned, some of those soundscapes sound Stravinskian, even cinematic sometimes, I'd say.  Some of the score reminds me of the soundtrack to the Matrix.  I perceive the piece to be divided into 4 movements.  I think the 1st and 2nd movements are my favorite and most memorable.  For a piece that mostly lacks recognizable themes (besides the Alla Ninna Nanna), it really commands the attention!  Great job and thanks for sharing!

P.S.:  Besides reviewing others works, I'm sure the reviewers of your piece would really appreciate if you gave them a ❤️ or a 🏆 for their efforts in reviewing your music!  (myself included ofc LoL)

 

Thank you a lot this means a lot too