Dance Of The Moonlit Clouds (Piano solo)

Hi everyone,

This is my latest piano composition, dance of the moonlit clouds. I believe it has influences like classical and more modern piano music.

I could describe this track as:
A night scene with the clouds dancing under the moonlight, carried away by the wind...enjoy!

You can listen to it here:

Dance Of The Moonlit Clouds

I have also added the pdf score to this post.

Thank you!

Hey Elma! Nice start in a lot of areas. Is this something you’re looking for feedback on? If so, what level of feedback?

20 hours ago, JP S. said:

Hey Elma! Nice start in a lot of areas. Is this something you’re looking for feedback on? If so, what level of feedback?

 

Yes i would like to have feedback on my composition. Particular areas of interest, how you view it's changes in motifs and melodies and your overall opinion as a piano piece!

Thanks for the opportunity to provide feedback, and sorry I think I forgot about your reply. I just rechecked my notifications and found yours, so here are my comments. Hopefully this isn’t too late.

First off I think you have a lot of nice ideas. You have a composer’s intuition, and these ideas sound like things I would have written when I was first starting. You have a nice sense of melody and accompaniment, and each of the phrases seems to pair the melody with an accompaniment pattern or echo pretty well. I think this is a high quality start to future composing yet to come.

Finding it’s already good, I think each of these ideas of yours could actually become their own pieces. Changing meters so often makes it sound like a separate thing, so could you consider making a separate piece out of something like measures 1-16?

Then I think the next easy improvement in quality would be varying up your melodic and harmonic pacing. It sounds like each idea has a similar feel for 3 or 4 measures out of the phrase, so could you look into some of Ryan Leach’s videos on Period and Sentence form? Here’s one: 

Cheers, and happy composing:)

Could you please let me know if any of that was helpful?

Hi @elmarad40

I have listened to your piano composition and followed it with the score.  I think you have potential here, for there are motives that can lead into strong phrases, which lead into either period or sentence form.  Then you can create small form (ABA), which would work great for this.  I think Ryan video and Schoenberg book "funadmentals of music composition" would help you greatly. Schoenberg is not expensive.   There are books, but I do not your budget. One is "Anysis of Classical forms" and "Musical Composition" 

You might also look into harmony and counterpoint.  Walter piston has one on harmony and one counterpoint. But there others.  And there courses you can take.  If you are studying composing, see if you can courses.  

If not, it is harder. I know when I was music major, there were none, sadly.

On 11/16/2025 at 2:09 AM, JP S. said:

Could you please let me know if any of that was helpful?

 

Thank you JP S. i watched the video and found it helpful. I will try to apply it to my compositiion as well as other that i create. I am currently taking courses in music Harmony and classical piano. And yes, i tend to put a lot of ideas in my composition so that is something i should also look into in the future in order not to overpopulate the songs and learn how to develop each idea fully.

Thank you again for the reply.

1 hour ago, Kvothe said:

Hi @elmarad40

I have listened to your piano composition and followed it with the score.  I think you have potential here, for there are motives that can lead into strong phrases, which lead into either period or sentence form.  Then you can create small form (ABA), which would work great for this.  I think Ryan video and Schoenberg book "funadmentals of music composition" would help you greatly. Schoenberg is not expensive.   There are books, but I do not your budget. One is "Anysis of Classical forms" and "Musical Composition" 

You might also look into harmony and counterpoint.  Walter piston has one on harmony and one counterpoint. But there others.  And there courses you can take.  If you are studying composing, see if you can courses.  

If not, it is harder. I know when I was music major, there were none, sadly.

 

Thank you for your reply Kvothe.

I am currently taking courses in music harmony and classical piano. So in the coming years, counterpoint will also come up as a field of study. I am aware of the books, however i am trying firstly to develop my skills gradually. I also own the Study Of Orchestration by Samuel Adler, which i hope to read and undestand some time in the future.

Thank you for the feedback and the book propositions!