June 16, 2025Jun 16 Hello everybody, I would like to post some piano music of mine here. I have lots of uploads and I don't intend to clog anyone's feed, so I will try to present them over time rather than at once. This is a short album I released one and a half years ago (28 minutes). I like to play around sudden tempo changes and unexpected modulations, and this marked what has been a gradual push for me into that direction. There is lots of humour (though it's not to me to judge whether it gets to the goal or not). I am curious to hear your thoughts on it, what you may or may not prefer, and similar. Any thought is welcome, even just a simple "I liked it/I didn't". Thank you in advance. I am embedding the video here. Edited June 16, 2025Jun 16 by Valerio DallaRagione Embedding
June 18, 2025Jun 18 Hello @Valerio DallaRagione, I don't listen to the whole album but only the first two pieces. The beginning sounds as in a Bartok piece but then in the middle section it becomes impressionistic, and the same thing repeats again. I quite like the ending when the key of the first section and mood of second section combined. For the second piece is it Bad Sallad or Sad Ballad? It's indeed quite sad, a F minor waltz. I find the modulation in 5:27 a bit abrupt for me with a sudden A major chord superimposed after a firmly established F minor, and then to D minor. I would also hope the D minor section in contrast with the F minor section more, instead of just the reappearence of the first section in different key and accompaniment! The ending reminds me of @ferrum.wav piece. I like the G major passage even though it's a quotation (or rather a playing) of the French Anthem. But why do you quote it in the Ballad? Is there a reason for it? I would like to know it, because I think it a bit out of place here haha. Nice playing anyways, thanks for joining and sharing your music! Henry
June 18, 2025Jun 18 Author Hi Henry, thank you for listening and replying. It is indeed "Bad Sallad", a pun on "Sad Ballad" because, as you pointed out, there's a bit of mixing things that shouldn't belong together (the English & American anthems, reharmonized and thrown in between movements of a sad waltz). So, from a sad ballad it ends up being an unusual salad of themes 🙂"Bad Sallad". The album is generally quite humurous, on the nonsensical side
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