April 21, 2025Apr 21 Hey @BipolarComposer! I like some of the ideas you present in this piece! I think my favorite is the following pizzicato idea that recurs throughout the piece: As a whole I think the piece has a sort of ordinary type of beauty. It's not trying to impress or be spectacular - it's just chugging along with ordinary seeming material and pedestrian harmony, but it's beautiful nonetheless. I like how it doesn't end on the tonic chord but instead on the subdominant. That's one of my favorite kinds of endings to a piece of music that I often employ in my own compositions! Now that I quickly peruse the score I notice that the whole piece manages to almost completely stay diatonic to C major throughout! No problem with that - and you do throw in the occasional # in there. Thanks for sharing!
April 21, 2025Apr 21 Author Thank you for the comments. My intention was for it to be simple, and song like. Sort of like a “pop song” for string quartet. Where it’s kind of bouncy and joyful throughout, with very little complication. I also love ending on anything that isn’t the tonic. It leaves a sense of mystery.
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