Looking for peer reviews for this piano and bass clarinet piece: Sad Song, April 2026

Hello everyone,

This is a piece I finished in April. I'm looking for general feedback on the overall structure, the melody, and the harmonic progression and of course the notation.

Thank you in advance for listening and looking over the score!

Best wishes,

Laurent

Sad song final.pdf

Hello

First of all, I’d like to say that I found the piece lovely and very pleasant to listen to.

At the start, the piano has quite a ‘minimalist’ pattern, but then it breaks away from that and sounds a bit odd. However, given the prominent role the piano takes on later, I think it’s fine.

I haven’t checked the range or anything. But could the clarinet be a standard one rather than a bass clarinet? In many places, it’s in quite a high register.

Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for offering,

For melody, I like the satisfying resolution on ending with the root note for the clarinet,

(I know this wasn't the feedback you asked for, but) When I listen to the song, I don't initially think that the song would be considered sad, I more felt like it was intriguing and somehwat bouncy, if you wanted to make it sound a bit sadder, I feel liek you could make the piano softer and have a bit more reverb (just in general less sharp) and a slightly lower bpm maybe?

I do like the song a lot, though, it's always so nice hearing live instruments (atleast I think it was live) like how you played the clarinet yourself, and I liked the switch ups of instruments like with the other piano coming in later to change around the atmosphere, great job!

Awesome sauce,

Forty6