April 23, 2025Apr 23 Hello everyone, I've been working quietly behind the scenes away from Young Composers for the past couple of weeks, working on my compositions and even having occasional practice sessions on my violin and piano. One day, I improvised on my piano and recorded it. I played back the video to myself and found the result so touching that I decided to create a complete composition of it on my Finale software. I'm really happy with this work and dream it will be the next "Song from a Secret Garden," both pieces having origins as solo piano pieces and eventually becoming full-blown orchestral works (in my case, "will" become). Yeah, that's a bit too ambitious, but a guy could always dream, right?! 😄 Your feedback is welcome!(: ~Frank Edited April 24, 2025Apr 24 by Frank Normandy
April 24, 2025Apr 24 Hi @Frank Normandy! I love the simplicity and melancholy of the music! I love your modulation to C minor in 0:49 and a bit suspension! Moving up an octave for the melody is quite effective for me! Maybe for me I will change the left hand accompaniment for the latter part of the music, but that’s personal because it works absolutely fine here as well, giving the simplicity you wanna achieve! Thx for sharing! Henry
April 25, 2025Apr 25 Author 15 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said: Hi @Frank Normandy! I love the simplicity and melancholy of the music! I love your modulation to C minor in 0:49 and a bit suspension! Moving up an octave for the melody is quite effective for me! Maybe for me I will change the left hand accompaniment for the latter part of the music, but that’s personal because it works absolutely fine here as well, giving the simplicity you wanna achieve! Thx for sharing! Henry Hello @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu, The modulation felt natural to me when I was improvising this piece, so I included it, and glad you love it:) Also, to be honest, I intentionally made the left hand part like that for most of the piece to complement the recurring dotted half note-quarter note pattern in the right hand, and to try to make the tune more memorable. Thank you so much!(: ~Frank
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