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The thought of you in HK rotating your iPad around with possibly other distractions playing in the corner of the screen (like basketball haha) trying to read Peter's handwriting made me literally laugh out loud. You're the best Henry, I hope you win the lotto or something

G'day fellas, Happy belated Easter! I must have composed this tune at least two years ago, but decided to rework it a bit. I'm not overly fond of it, I will admit but believe that it has the most distinctly Australian feel out of everything I have ever written. You might also notice some ragtime influence in it, too. I'm considering writing a middle section as well, and hence making the piece into a ternary form. Yay or nay? Cheers, Quinn Humoresque No 1.mid

I originally wrote the beginnings of a scherzando section that was going to appear at M, but I eventually scrapped it and put in what is there now. So it's definitely a thought I had, but I rejected it. I didn't think it fit. It broke the dramatic arc for me. I don't know very much of the oeuvre of either Bruckner or Sibelius, though I've started trying to explore Bruckner more recently and I am at least consciously aware that at times his influence did start to make itself felt as I got into the middle and end of the symphony. However, a much nearer and dearer inspiration to me is Mahler, and Tchaikovsky was on my mind heavily when composing the dance-like sections, despite me not really being aware of any specific piece by him that has those characteristics. I wasn't aiming to emulate any particular person though, so I could very well have created a hybrid style.

Yo @PeterthePapercomPoser, I wouldn’t wanna write a description this long for a 37 second music!! My complain is the same as @Quinn: it’s too short!! So can your friend Lisa find followers?? It sounds like the outcome is not so good since it’s in c minor… (Me just trolling……) I think your composition style is already succinct! Thx for sharing your creative method to compose Peter! Henry

Yo Peter, My complain is also it’s too short. The beginning really reminds me of Gamelan music! I really hope that interlocking pattern keeps going and going! I think this one is actually a great idea LoL! Or even some aleatory music! Peter is showing his real colour here (from an MBTI perspective)!! Like me I would NEVER write such a detailed description on how to write my music logically since I usually just have a big picture never these details and with zero logic LoL!! And me find myself dumb too to rotate the images when my iPad I am holding now keeps rotating my rotations and I can never find the right way to read Famous PeterPapercomPoser’s Paper…. Nice sharing Peter! Henry

Hey @PCC, Actually it takes me more effort to read with those ridiculously huge “PCC” watermark than those tenor clefs LoL….. I feel like the movement is repeated. Where is the repeated sign? It’s hard to listen while following the score since it’s not the score you are playing LoL! I think you are really ambitious here. The motivic treatment and the theme are very like Liszt here. Many passages are living in the moment with the images you are depicting, like the crucifixion and crosses. I am treating the movement more like a romantic character piece than a sonata form regulated one since the momentary imagery is important than the structure here. Maybe for me there are too many motives here to be recognised so I don’t recognise any of them at all LoL! I don’t the piece with the paradigm of sonata form in my head but instead with momentary climaxes, and I don’t think it’s a bad thing. I like your playing of your own piece! (Btw I enjoy your hiccup between somewhere LoL!) Thx for sharing! I will take my time to go through the rest of the piece. Henry