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Joke in A-flat major

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The final piece of my four Piano pieces set and just a lame joke. Can be developed into a postmodern minimalistic masterpiece by repeating the joke forever and forever......

Joke in A flat major.pdf

Hope you enjoy this one!

Henry

Edited by Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
adding a hyphen for the title lol

Fun little piece. I especially loved the middle section with the change of tempo and key. The ending? Really sounds like a joke!

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3 minutes ago, chopin said:

Fun little piece. I especially loved the middle section with the change of tempo and key. The ending? Really sounds like a joke!

haha thx! The ending four note is a quote of the tonics of each the 4 piano pieces of the set!

Henry

lol

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39 minutes ago, PCC said:

lol

lolol

Excellent!  Needs to be given to beginning music students so they can learn to follow repeats. 🙂

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1 hour ago, pateceramics said:

Excellent!  Needs to be given to beginning music students so they can learn to follow repeats. 🙂

Haha thx! Tho here it repeats more than usual for humorous effect, as a joke told more times it should it becomes a lame joke!😛

Henry

3 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Haha thx! Tho here it repeats more than usual for humorous effect, as a joke told more times it should it becomes a lame joke!😛

Henry

 

That's what would make it fun for teachers to inflict it on their students. 🙂

Lmao!

 

23 hours ago, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

The ending four note is a quote of the tonics of each the 4 piano pieces of the set!

 

Your own B-A-C-H motif, perhaps? 🤔

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2 hours ago, user011235 said:

Your own B-A-C-H motif, perhaps? 🤔

hahahahahaha. I am much used to A-R-J-U-N-A motif now as I'm composing Arjuna's @expert21 Violin Sonata now, first 3 movements completed and working on the last movement of variation!

Henry

I lol'd at the ending 😄 

Congrats, this is now begrudgingly stuck in my head. How dare you craft such an invasive little earworm

😛 

The ending is pretty weird; but it definitely made me laugh! (So lived up to the title.)

Hope you're fully recovered from your recent illness Henry.

Sending good wishes,

Alex

On 5/6/2025 at 11:18 AM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

Can be developed into a postmodern minimalistic masterpiece by repeating the joke forever and forever......

lol, like Eric Satie's Vexations?

but on a more serious note, I do like this piece, it is so classical yet so catchy and fun, something I would like to play, especially if forced to choose a classical piece that are not the ones I like , the boring ones.

Also, this is generally suited for children and beginners to play, maybe at a slower tempo.

One issue might be that it looks quite easily to trip off when playing in a fast tempo.

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On 5/8/2025 at 12:19 AM, Thatguy v2.0 said:

I lol'd at the ending 😄 

Congrats, this is now begrudgingly stuck in my head. How dare you craft such an invasive little earworm

😛 

LoL! I like how I achieve the funny effect with the quote of the tonic notes for each piece of the set lol!

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On 5/9/2025 at 11:00 PM, Alex Weidmann said:

The ending is pretty weird; but it definitely made me laugh! (So lived up to the title.)

Hope you're fully recovered from your recent illness Henry.

Sending good wishes,

Haha. I don't think I fully recover, but at least I can respond now after finishing my recent Violin Sonata! Thx for your good wishes Alex!

Henry

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On 5/12/2025 at 6:17 PM, Aw Ke Shen said:

One issue might be that it looks quite easily to trip off when playing in a fast tempo.

Yeah those octaves running are causing me pain in a fast tempo lololol!

On 5/12/2025 at 6:17 PM, Aw Ke Shen said:

but on a more serious note, I do like this piece, it is so classical yet so catchy and fun, something I would like to play, especially if forced to choose a classical piece that are not the ones I like , the boring ones.

Also, this is generally suited for children and beginners to play, maybe at a slower tempo.

Yeah I just try to write in a simple way in all four piano pieces of the same set, because I am way too complex finishing the whole Sextet and it's too heavy-loaded to keep talking matters of lives and deaths lol!

Henry

Hey @Henry Ng Tsz Kiu!

The middle section in F major is my favorite and probably, the most musically and harmonically interesting part imo.  It's great that you manage to satisfy both a sophisticated formal structure while having humor with it.  Thanks for sharing!

On 5/20/2025 at 4:31 PM, Henry Ng Tsz Kiu said:

it's too heavy-loaded to keep talking matters of lives and deaths lol

hahahahaha lol!!

Re-hearing the piece I was thinking if you could also use 3/8 at a slower tempo or 4/4 but all the crotchets here are then in triplets - since counting this fast may be challenging and unnatural, then I suddenly realize why you chose 108 per dotted minum, which makes complete sense - but again, just personal notational preferences at the end of the day I guess.

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On 5/28/2025 at 7:55 AM, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

The middle section in F major is my favorite and probably, the most musically and harmonically interesting part imo.  It's great that you manage to satisfy both a sophisticated formal structure while having humor with it.  Thanks for sharing!

Haha yeah, given how lame the Ab major sections surrounding it! I definitely need more HUMOR in my life, whether it’s the joyous mood or the body fluids lol!

Henry

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7 hours ago, Aw Ke Shen said:

Re-hearing the piece I was thinking if you could also use 3/8 at a slower tempo or 4/4 but all the crotchets here are then in triplets - since counting this fast may be challenging and unnatural, then I suddenly realize why you chose 108 per dotted minum, which makes complete sense - but again, just personal notational preferences at the end of the day I guess.

Well I’m very used to a Beethovanian Scherzo marked in three in a bar so I just retain that!

Henry

* looks at my own scherzi

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