Contemplation No.5

This original piano piece has very simple chords and melody, with the goal to create a soft, intimate and peaceful mood.  Yet also with some underlying uplifting feeling and emotion.  Simple, with 'stirring' quality if you know what I mean.  Hope I achieved that.  Let me know.

2019:
This is an improvisation I made in 2019, recording live into my DAW without following the DAW metronome.  So I had it in midi but measures do not follow a metronome beat.  I couldn't record to a metronome anyway because there is much intentional rubato in this piece.   

2026:
Now I wanted to use a better piano sound and that was easy- just play the midi file with a good piano vst.  The piano you hear is the UVI Model D Piano vst playing the original midi file I improvised in 2019 (with some minor note improvements) 

However what was not easy is creating the score!  Which requires quantized notes.  So I had a lot of work remaking every measure to have midi notes quantized, not for playing, but for the score.  So the score does not play the piano but does show the accurate notes of the midi file that is playing the piano.

Comments and suggestions welcome!

score available for purchase at:

https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/se/ID_No/1956655/Product.aspx

Follow score pdf:

A beautiful piece.
It doesn't seem very complex, but it's very well structured (which, for me, is one of the biggest challenges). And the dynamic control is exquisite.

Hey @MichaelJohn !

What a harmonically rich, bittersweet piece! It's full of longing and emotion and full of tons of creative harmonic choices. The harmonic identity also seems kind of ambiguous to me. The piece clearly starts in D minor and that's corroborated by the key signature, but you end in F major which is a nice hopeful ending! But I actually feel that most of the piece is in G Dorian. Very interesting - and you use plenty of F add4 chords which I really love the flavor of as a kind of backdoor cadence into G minor. Thanks for sharing this gem and I am grateful that you managed to create a good looking score as I really was able to appreciate the piece much more and deeply with the score. Thanks again!