Henry Ng Tsz Kiu

Hi @Syrel, It indeed sounds hopeful! I like the commentator saying that the modulation sounds like the change of the year. Thx for sharing. Henry

Hi @PCC For me if I don't compose I will end up going into a mental ward or an asylum. I cannot not compose because my emotion is way too unstable and I need to use those emotion for music, otherwise it will stir me up and harm my mental and physical health. I only know this during the last few months of my life. Besides it's really an achievement to finish a piece especially ones you think it's successful. Outside popularity, recognition and fame would of course be the additional bonus but personal enjoyment would be the most statisfying of all. Showing improvement progressively in music composition is definitely an enjoyment. Henry

Hey @PeterthePapercomPoser! This prelude is motivically tight. Almost all phrase starts with the same motive, either in its original or inverted form. Like @chopin I love the echo effect. The echo really strengthens the weirdness of the piece as provided by the microtone! Thx for sharing this little piece! Henry

Hello @Michael Barrie, It's a nice try on chamber music! For me I think you can use more memorable themes and motives so that listeners can follow the music easier! Thx for sharing. Henry

Hey Kyle @UncleRed99, I absolutely love this! I feel your sadness. The opening C minor theme is fxxingly great and emotional. The E flat major cello theme is no less either. It's contemplative and consolating but no less sad. The whole piece I am like listening to a river stream with sadness lightly flowing. The harmony, instrumentation and texture are maybe simple, but it is because of its simplicity make this so touching. The modulation to F minor makes the music more reflective for me. The picardy 3rd is nice as well to give some hope. Interesting the main theme here (Eb-D-C-G) shares the same motive I once have in my C minor Clarinet Quintet! Thx for sharing this lovely piece! Henry

Hi @Crackers, For me it's sounds like a Baroque Chaconne with electronic effect and rhythm, when a basic harmonic pattern is maintained throughout the whole piece. The sound effect is really varied throughout the whole piece. I really like the drum? in 2:40, it sounds so soothing to listen to! What is the sound effect there? The ending climax is achieved with good preparation as well. I think overall it works well as an electronic piece, since the effects are lovely even though the harmony is repeating. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hi @muchen_, It's really a nice Baroque Aria. I like the counterpoint and melisma in it, and I like the cadential hemiola you use. For me it's quite creative and a bit weird to set Goethe's text in a Baroque style, since his birth year merely touches the end of the period! Thx for sharing. Henry

Hi @NicholasG, The opening sounds like the beginning of the 3rd movement of Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique which is ominous for me. The theme in 1:00 sounds quite jungle like with the percussion, but and then you go for a march. A more contemplative wind passage follows. The saxophone solo passage is quite nice, but it's too short for me! After it it's bell and timpani passage another furious adventure comes. The ending first features the wind passage, and then the solo saxophone, and then ends on a high note. For me personally I think there are too many ups and downs within a small time span. I think you can really develop on the different passages before getting into a contrasting passage! The theme in 1:00, the march theme after it, the wind passage and then the saxophone passage all seem short for me! They are introduced nicely, but for me it's like a tour trip where you visit many great attraction but only stay for 15 minutes in each of them! Thx for sharing! Henry

In fact that's the common practice of Classical Concerto for the ensemble to bring in the themes first before the soloist comes in. Only Beethoven changed the practice in his Piano Concerto no.4.

It is confirmed that the next post would indeed be the slow movement of my Piano Sonata no.3!

Hi @GospelPiano12, I think it's difficult to provide suggestion to you with just the standard orchestration provided, other than having the information that the oboe would be the featured instrument! I think you can think of the style of the music you want. Do you have any musical ideas to be developed for this piece? Henry

Hey Peter, It sounds like a Baroque invention with wrong notes thx to the just intonation, until b.22 when you reach G major and stay in the key! It's quite unusual for me to stay in the subtonic major in a Baroque invention for a major key work! I like the imitations, particular the quasi stretto at the end. Thx for sharing! Henry

Hey Jean @Krisp! I love the word painting in your music! The music sounds so dark, chromatic and confusing with those scary images The silence after the "Out of Silence" stanza sounds nice! The Yes, Yes! confirmation, and the mockery music in the mockery stanza. The music get more excited when the thought of kissing is involved! Then after the sentence "Widowed plate of Saint John the Baptist Head", maybe the imagination of female religious saints, even though still under the objectification of female is thought of, so the music becomes peaceful apparently, though the sexual undercurrent still continue. There is so much thought in your music to paint the poem. I admire that! And your singing is as great as always. P.S. With "Baryton" I think of the poor bowed string instrument getting out of fashion which Haydn poorly waste his talent on his 123 Baryton trios thanks to his Esterházy Patron! Thx for sharing! Henry

Hello @Rafael Avila, Welcome to the forum! For me the piece never goes out of the control of A minor, let alone tonality at all! There are clear functional harmonies in it. For me it sounds more like having some chromatic non-harmonic tones added to the otherwise functional harmony. Thx for sharing and joining! Henry

Hey Kyle @UncleRed99, It sounds very nice to me. A nice theme and a nice texture. I especially love passages featuing piano and cello. The music reminds me of some lovely Richard Clayderman pieces! The up an octave sign in the bass clef piano at the beginning looks strange for me and you should just notate your left hand an octave higher! The modulation to G minor sounds abrupt to me but it's a work in progress so I guess you will fill in the gap otherwise! Excited to your final product! Henry