Bagatelle For Violin and Piano

I think I wrote it, drawing the music staves onto blank paper, in some doctor's office in the '90s.

ba Free Sheet Music by Robert C. Fox for Violin and Piano/Keyboard | Noteflight

I really the the transition in the first theme! I really like the rhythm too. It is interesting.

The start of the second theme is beautiful.

Anyways, very interesting Potpourri.

Just now, TristanTheTristan said:

I really the the transition in the first theme! I really like the rhythm too. It is interesting.

The start of the second theme is beautiful.

Anyways, very interesting Potpourri.

I do these sorts of instant composition exercises, or did a lot in the past. Find one in a drawer or box...actually, the coda was added later in Noteflight, because I only found one page! The original ending can't have been much.

Edited Tuesday at 02:39 PM2 days by Churchcantor

For some reason, I can't seem to edit the title on the link to Noteflight from "ba" to Bagatelle. I could unpublish and republish it, but I guess "ba" will do.😃

23 hours ago, TristanTheTristan said:

I really the the transition in the first theme! I really like the rhythm too. It is interesting.

The start of the second theme is beautiful.

Anyways, very interesting Potpourri.

I think what you mean by the transition in the first theme is the D F# G# whole tone chord (one could call it an altered version of the dom.7 in A Minor with the F# being a ninth) on the last beat of m.4 , the suspended F natural in the violin, and the enharmonic modulation, the G# becoming Ab in Ab Major. A sneaky way to get from A Minor to Ab Major really fast!

36 minutes ago, Churchcantor said:

I think what you mean by the transition in the first theme is the D F# G# whole tone chord (one could call it an altered version of the dom.7 in A Minor with the F# being a ninth) on the last beat of m.4 , the suspended F natural in the violin, and the enharmonic modulation, the G# becoming Ab in Ab Major. A sneaky way to get from A Minor to Ab Major really fast!

Nice. I found a sneaky way to transfer from Bb minor to B major.

23 hours ago, TristanTheTristan said:

Nice. I found a sneaky way to transfer from Bb minor to B major.

You know, few things have had more impact on my harmony than these sorts of unusual modulations with "chromatic slippage," as I sometimes call it! I also like to just let whatever stepwise chromaticism I have in the bass and melody lines help me determine what chords might be possible when I add the middle voices. Anyone who listens to my music also knows I don't always prepare modulations, but like jarring transitions sometimes!

Thought of one more thing: I've been looking into late Faure, as in his final work the String Quartet in E Minor, and he is a master of that sort of thing, though I don't want to obscure tonal centers so much, I still like to bang out plain triads.

Gabriel Fauré - String Quartet in E Minor, Op. 121

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