Hello, first post here. I've been working on this piano piece a few weeks in my spare time, and would like to know what you guys think. Thanks - Michael.

Mp3 recorded from yamaha s90es.

http://www.box.net/shared/zlyxyzm6xo

I like it, Michael! Thanks for sharing.

Nice Michael!

Parts of it remind me of the famous Chopin Prelude in Em. The middle/second section makes a nice contrast.

Best, John

Wow! That sounds wonderful! I love it! I love how it changes up and I really like the beginning.

I would love to see the score on this one. Any chance of you posting it here for us to see?

Thanks for sharing. This one's a keeper!
dave

Thanks for the comments so far, I appreciate it. Chopin's music is among some of my favorite, and so I take the prelude similarity as a compliment.

I am glad to share the score, as long as you keep in mind that I am rather new to notation and so it may not be 100% accurate as to how I have played it. If you see any notational mistakes with regard to general practices, please let me know.

Score: http://www.box.net/shared/u6ka8l0iki

Thanks a lot for posting the score! I don't have any time to look at it right now, but I just wanted to say thanks.

I'm still learning to read music, so it will take me a little while and I'm sure I'll miss all kinds of mistakes (if there are any). My main goal is to take a look at a couple of your progressions as they sound very nice.

If I notice any problems or have any questions, I will definitely let you know.

Thanks again for sharing!
dave

Very beautiful.

I second Johnny-boy there is a part that also reminds me of a Chopin Prelude, which if I remember well was titled (after Chopin's death) "Suffocation".

Your composition is very beautiful, touching, and moving, and transmits kind of a sense of sadness or imagery of past memories. Melancholy is probably the word.

For me, music transmits emotions.

When I compose my own works, my music usually refelects how I was feeling at that moment, or what feelings I want to share with the listener. For me, a composer's greatest goal is to transmit emotions through his piece.

That's what I enjoy best of composing an dimprovising, and why I sometimes even enjoy it much more than playing another's composer piece.

In the latest, you get the chance to understand the composer. For example, almost every time I play another composer's piece I like to look up the story behind it, the past. Did he write it for a lover? Was it for his wife? Was it simple for a court or king?

The title also is important, although not as important as the content of the piece.

I would say your piece has trasmitted emotions to me very succesfully, however I am not sure what you intended to transmit.

There a game I very much enjoy to play with my listeners. I tried this one time, and found it so enjoyable and rewarding, but it can't be done with anyone- only sensitive and special people.

What I like to do is tell the other person to close their eyes and let their imagination go. Then I start playing them my composition and ask them later what did it produce for them. What feelings did he/she feel? What stories did he/she remember from hermind?

You see, I love imagining I am composing music for movies. So in most of my compositions I imagine a plot, a scenary, an interaction between characters (which someof the times it's myself), and emotions going through.

In this way, sometimes I like to go even further and I describe the scenary of where the scene would look like, the time in history it was ocurring, and some other details to entail an unfinished plot.
Then I tell them that they must finish the story- and I play them the piece, and ask them how did it end.

So sometimes in this way, you play with different ways of transmitting emotions, pictures, or thoughts to some special listeners.

I guess, it's just the wonderful thing of music, and how special it is - at least for me- and the power it has.

Your piece brings me melancholic memories and probaly a bit of sadness and despair. However at the same time is cathartic -I am not really sad right now- like a relieving, and at the end making you feeling feel better.

My compositions are usually very private, but would you like to share what took you to compose this piece, or at least what emotions or images does it produce to you?

The title indeed calls attention.

Keep up the great work and I hope to listen to more from you!

Best wishes,
Rod

Hey Rodrix, I hope you don't mind me jumping in here, but I think this is an interesting point. I myself have questioned the importance of author intent when it comes to a piece of music or any other piece of artistic expression such as a novel or painting. In my opinion, once it is created and released, it takes on a life of its own, and while the author's intent helped created the piece of work, it still stands on its own regardless of what the author intended. Some pieces leave more room for interpretation than others, and such pieces will thus have more varied interpretations.

Anyhow, I was just curious as to your interest in the intent behind the piece. In any event, it makes for interesting discussion!

dave

:rolleyes:

Rodrix, the piece is based on a very specific dream that I had regarding a deceased family member. Rather than go into the details, I will say that it runs the course as you describe, from despair, sorrow, to a feeling of peacefulness and renewed spirit at the end. Thanks for your encouraging remarks - I would also like to write for movies, and believe that music has a very remarkable power for conveying emotional content.

your piece was beautiful keep working hard.

Hi Michael,

I think you're piece is amazingly beautiful.
It's coming from the depth of your soul, and that's what I can feel when I played it after printing your notes.
I think you are very talented and connected to your feelings, for me this is the most important thing in any creation.
The open heart and the flow of creativity and energy in your piece.

Would love to hear more of you,
Thank you,
Yanna

Fantastic work Michael! I enjoyed every single note.

Great job!

That was actually really well done... The piece itself was excellent. Keep it up, seriously.