The Lion's Dance

This is a Scherzo called " The Lion's Dance In G major ".

I called it the lions dance because I can just see this lion running around the circus and the trainer is trying to catch him and the lion is dancing .. hehe

I know.. I know... it aint an easy piece to play.. as matter a fact it might not be playable by any pianist and if anyone can pull this through I'll give him/her a million dollors ( monopoly money ofcourse )

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Here it goes.. try to catch the lion...

Wow. That is....fast.

Really well written, but I don't know how practical it is to perform. Of course, I am no expert.

But really well done!

Well..... I have to be frank, I really didn't like it, the ending was better than most of the piece itself IMO

Your harmony is quite lacking in terms of variety and direction, the progression is quite random it seems, you start off in a minor and then almost immediately go to a major, and it doesn't lead into anything very well at all. The Motifs themselves seemed rather unorganized, there isn't really any sense of form at all, some motifs repeat but again, they are unorganized, and some ideas only appear once and destroy any sense of form that was about to be made. The relentless octaves also make the piece sound rather monotonous

Sorry to be so blunt, but that's my honest opinion

...the progression is quite random it seems, you start off in a minor and then almost immediately go to a major, and it doesn't lead into anything very well at all.

I liked the juxtaposition of minor and major.

Well, while around 75% of it IS playable, large chunks of it are unplayable at the piano. Not due to difficulty but rather to awkward hand position, or unplayable repeated notes (at that speed, in octaves, it's not entirely impossible, but would be so tiring within a few measures as to be impractical).

Over all, the piece is not idiomatic, so of very little interest to any pianist. I don't really see the point in writing something that is unplayable for an instrument. Why not go out of your way to write something that might be technically demanding but actually feasible at the instrument in question?

It's actually quite eaay to write something impossible for an instrument... it's a completely different sort of feat to write something technically challenging, but playable. I'd rather admire technical mastery than impossibility. See the second part of my signature, the Debussy quote. It applies here.

I had a british pianist in my house. I auditioned him for a project I wanted to do. He took this work among other works home and began to work on them. After a few days he called me and told me that he had a hard time in getting this piece to be played without mistakes. So I revised the piece a bit .. took off some of the chords and changed a few things. I didnt post the revised version. But anyhows, I was very impressed when this pianist played the piece in my home. It was the first time he saw the work and he played it by sight in a fast tempi , making mistakes here and there but overall it wasnt so bad.

I liked it, hahaha. Of course, I'm no master pianist. What I liked about it was the brutish nature of the music as it matched the brutish nature of lions. It also sounded a little bit spanish to me, which I like.

Thanks.

I liked it.

Thanks Fiddler.

I didn't like the piece. Like Qccowboy I didn't really see the point of writing something impossible to play. I guess if you're going to do that, you need the make the piece really really really spectacular with good form, harmony etc. Could you post up the revised version?