Submission to the 2025 Christmas Music Event

https://musescore.com/user/96214813/scores/30134846.

This is a five movement piece of music, consisting of 880 bars and 20 minutes of purre, Eb Major, Piano Music. It has an Introduction, A Concerto for Solo Piano (Some parts inspired by Prokofiev (Cadenza), Hummel (Last movement Coda Structure and stuff in the Coda), Beethoven (Some themes and grandness/mightiness/sensationalness), and Mozart (Some parts of the slow movement in the Concerto)), The Concerto ends in a plagal cadence, because the people once thought that the chord progression I-V-IV-I is holy, like the sky, because of the Jump between that compared to an authentic cadence. Enjoy, please, I beg you, and don't kill me for writing minor keyed parts.

1 minute ago, TristanTheTristan said:

https://musescore.com/user/96214813/scores/30134846.

This is a five movement piece of music, consisting of 880 bars and 20 minutes of purre, Eb Major, Piano Music. It has an Introduction, A Concerto for Solo Piano (Some parts inspired by Prokofiev (Cadenza), Hummel (Last movement Coda Structure and stuff in the Coda), Beethoven (Some themes and grandness/mightiness/sensationalness), and Mozart (Some parts of the slow movement in the Concerto)), The Concerto ends in a plagal cadence, because the people once thought that the chord progression I-V-IV-I is holy, like the sky, because of the Jump between that compared to an authentic cadence. Enjoy, please, I beg you, and don't kill me for writing minor keyed parts.

 

And also a last movement Finale with an Introduction de Capo.

Hi @TristanTheTristan,

This is a nice classical style piece of music. It reminds me a lot of Bee's Emperor Concerto. Is this one related to the Christmas theme?

I notice some of the playablitiy issue, for example in b.25 2nd movement the left hand will be too fast to be played. 

There are a lot of themes and texture throughout the piece. I don't take lots of effort into reading the whole music, but how are those materials related to each other?😗

Thx for sharing and joining the event!

Henry

Hello @TristanTheTristan,

in contrast to other participants sharing „miniatures“ (starting with a 9 seconds long piece), you submitted a large multi-movement opus, which, to be honestly, overwhelmed me a bit with its variety of themes and textures.

I just have listened it for one time completely and try to give some imaginations „from memory“.

Its a Concerto for Solo Piano and I like that you have added some marks concerning the instrumentation (such as „Flauto“ or „Tutti“) which helps to imagine a possible orchestration. The opening theme of the first movement has somewhat Christmas mood – thus connecting it with the event, however that mood is lost more and more with the upcoming variations of the thematic material and texture.

The second movement - as being more slowly - was easier to perceive for me. I especially enjoyed the surprising resolutions or chord progressions in the arpeggios in bars 14, 31ff!

Starting with a march, the third movement also bears a melodic section and a lot of material where I did not find out how they are related together.

All in all a long piece with much effort and much potential.

I would appreciate if you would share it as MP3 audio, too (for the next time). This would make it easier to listen to it multiple times, which would be absolutely necessary to review a piece of that amount thoroughly.

Finally, I would like to say—and this is not necessarily a criticism of your composition or the piece itself—that I find the quality of the pieces presented on the Musescore website disappointing. At first glance, one might think that the scrollable score is very useful. However, this is negated by the poor articulation and dynamics, which make trills and tremolos sound very unrealistic, for example, and lead to rhythmic disruptions when introducing triplets, etc. Played by a human (or with more realistic articulation, dynamics, and agogics), this piece should therefore be very exciting.