Challenge Series #2 (Piano Rhapsody)

I found this quite interesting and decided to write something myself.

I have to say that I couldn't discern what qualifies a piece as a rhapsody, so I just wrote something... I don't even know if it fits, but I had fun writing it. It's not my usual style. Hope you can enjoy it somehow... :unsure:

It's called "Chorea ardens", or in english "Burning dance".

RhapsodyChoreaArdens.mid

RhapsodyChoreaArdens.nwc

No, I'm trying my best to find any way at all to hear this piece as more than just dissonance and pppp-ffff-pppp-ffff.

Ow. The piece isn't really up to standards with what I usually write, but you're way off here - I try to take great care in structuring and creating an organic whole. That said, it is dynamic and ugly - I like it that way.

I didn't even look at the score.

Yes, no worries. I removed that comment after I realized how silly it was :unsure:

Well, my counter-counterargument is that you couldn't think of a counterargument because you knew that most rhapsodies do make tonal sense and if you understood that, you'd understand how yours doesn't.

No, I was too amazed by your comment. My work makes ''tonal sense'' to me. Again, it would help if your provided me with a definition rather than your own subjective opinion of what makes ''tonal sense''. Not that i'd agree with that definition, however.

EDIT: Yes, wheter a piece makes tonal sense or not IS a matter of opinion. I'm baffled that you don't realize this! I'd apreciate it if some of the more experienced composers chime in here...

Whether a piece makes tonal sense is a matter of opinion yes, but what I meant to say was "whether a piece is tonal or not is a not a matter of opinion."

That said, it is dynamic and ugly - I like it that way.

Okay, but that's not what we're looking for here (unless again you can justify this ugliness in terms of tonality (harmony) and structure. I'm not aware that your piece contains much harmony at all and as far as structure goes, well, I don't think that goes too far either. (That doesn't mean it's structureless, of course, but . . . )

What does that have to do with anything? My piece is almost completely tonal. There are very few, if any, atonal elements.

Okay, but that's not what we're looking for here (unless again you can justify this ugliness in terms of tonality (harmony) and structure. I'm not aware that your piece contains much harmony at all and as far as structure goes, well, I don't think that goes too far either. (That doesn't mean it's structureless, of course, but . . . )

You don't understand the definition of harmony at all.

You don't understand the definition of harmony at all.

Mirror attack!

Eb -> F# -> C min -> F# min -> Bb min -> Ab min--makes a piece tonal.

So what? Harmony is pitch simultaneity (which there is plenty of in my piece), not (necessarily) harmonic progression(s).

*rips hair out in a Beethovenian fashion*

I'll leave that one open for someone else to comment on. I just hope you never work for Webster.

*rips hair out in a Beethovenian fashion*

I wasn't aware Beethoven ripped or even pulled his hair out. :unsure:

Lets stop arguing, wait until the deadline, and see what the critics have to say.

Admit that you were flagrantly wrong about harmony, and i'll get off your donkey. :unsure:

FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!

Lets stop arguing, wait until the deadline, and see what the critics have to say.

^

Would it make you happy if I submitted this instead? :whistling: *sigh*

You can submit whatever you want so long as it meets the basic requirements.

gently caress you. :whistling:

I'm not limiting dissonance, I actually encourage it [to a certain extent of course]. In ugliness there is beauty. Your rhapsody is an exception.

It's beautifull to me. You speak about beauty as if it were objective.

I'm not talking about your latest upload here, I'm talking about the ones before it.

Of course I'm kidding. --By kidding I mean half kidding.

My last upload is my early hackwork, it was meant for the sake of sarcasm.. I knew what you were referring to.

Let's simply agree that our conceptions of beauty differ, yes?

Very much so.

I'm reposting my slightly worked over version of the previously posted song.

Rhapsody-ChoreaArdens4.mid

Rhapsody-ChoreaArdens2.nwc

Hehehehe, I should enter MY Rhapsody :whistling:

That might not be such a good idea.

Yeah....how come?

He's just jealous of your skills.

Shut it. :w00t:

Yeah....how come?

Wasn't ownership over that work disputed? Or have you resolved it? Or are you talking about a different work alltogether..? Perhaps I should just shut up. :whistling: Your call, though. I actually listened to the work yesterday - it's extremely accessible yet doesen't sacrifice too much sophistication to become banal.. It would fascinate both Sapphire and intelligent listeners alike.