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.

@TristanTheTristan

I love the piano sketch of the piano concerto.  I know it is a challenge to write such a massive piece. It is great idea to write out piano sketch before you write out the full score. Not many understand this.  I can the influences you mentioned throughout the piece.  It definitely reminds of their writing.  

Using musescore is great a tool, but as @Wieland Handke mentioned it would nice to have audio version, too. and full orchestral score...when that is done. 🙂 

I would love to see that. We can help you out with that. Start slow with that. 

Hey @TristanTheTristan!

This definitely feels like has the spirit of Christmas.  Sometimes it manages this by somehow indirectly mimicking some Christmas Carols without any direct quotes.  Other times it seems like it's inspired by the Nutcracker.  The only thing that bothers me is the mechanicality of your rendition.  People have already mentioned the mechanical nature of your tremolos and trills and stuff like that.  I think all that can be fixed by writing out your trills through tuplets, making them sound exactly as fast or as slow as you want (and also having control of their velocity values).  Same thing with the tremolos - you could bring down their volume with velocity values - relegating them to the intended background of the music rather than an annoying thing that jumps out at the listener.  The final thing that would really make it sound so much better is the occasional use of the damper pedal.  Just those things would help my impression of the piece 10-fold.  Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year!

13 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Hey @TristanTheTristan!

This definitely feels like has the spirit of Christmas.  Sometimes it manages this by somehow indirectly mimicking some Christmas Carols without any direct quotes.  Other times it seems like it's inspired by the Nutcracker.  The only thing that bothers me is the mechanicality of your rendition.  People have already mentioned the mechanical nature of your tremolos and trills and stuff like that.  I think all that can be fixed by writing out your trills through tuplets, making them sound exactly as fast or as slow as you want (and also having control of their velocity values).  Same thing with the tremolos - you could bring down their volume with velocity values - relegating them to the intended background of the music rather than an annoying thing that jumps out at the listener.  The final thing that would really make it sound so much better is the occasional use of the damper pedal.  Just those things would help my impression of the piece 10-fold.  Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year!

 

Thanks for the impressive feedback! I will try to do that.

I do not like MuseScore's playback at all, so the fact that I really enjoyed this work despite the questionable playback of MuseScore, tells you everything. This is an impressive work. Is the beginning/ending loosely, Twelve Days of Christmas? After this though, I got so absorbed into your music, I forgot it was a Christmas piece! I don't even care though. You easily captivated my attention for the full 20 minutes, I even went back to listen to the first 5 minutes again because I could swear I heard 12 days of Christmas somewhere!

But every part of your work is captivating and you often change it up. I have to say the 2nd half of your piece is even more captivating. This is where we start getting really deep. By this point, Christmas is gone, and we are now in some other dimension. You do manage to bring back 12 days of Christmas about 15 minutes in though, and end on that note.

This will of course be an exhausting piece to play. The rigid playback of MuseScore doesn't do this piece justice in my opinion, because I know that if we could get past the rigid playback, this has the potential to sound much more pianistic.