felicity and her rains of rose scented dew drops

A few of you may remember this as Sketch No. 100 on this site, but I revisited it, updated it, and quite like the end result. A friend will be performing it for her recital in June. Enjoy!

I love it!

I like the intimacy and the impressionistic mood, mostly because of the change in the time signature. The opening is wonderful, but the whole piece, too. I'm sure your friend will love playing this.

By the way: very nice title for the piece.

I don't know why this didn't draw more comment from people, it's a beautifully introspective and delicate piece.  I loved it's gentle meandering yet intensely reflective mood.  Is it a live recording?  

Thank you, both of you. 

On 6/5/2017 at 4:25 AM, Mark101 said:

Is it a live recording?

Unfortunately, no, and they didn't allow recording at the event my friend played it at. 
 

Ah, well that's unfortunate, but at least that means that your software is very good, every cloud and all that

Yes reflective is a good term to describe it.  In me it evokes feelings of some one reliving lots of 'episodes' or situations in their life, Some smiles, some melancholy. A truly inspired and well crafted piece of work.. Ah yes, I really like the way your musical mind works.. very emotionally provoking, yet doing it gently at the same time..  Love the ending.

EXCELLENT

On 6/10/2017 at 7:14 AM, markstyles said:

Yes reflective is a good term to describe it.  In me it evokes feelings of some one reliving lots of 'episodes' or situations in their life, Some smiles, some melancholy. A truly inspired and well crafted piece of work.. Ah yes, I really like the way your musical mind works.. very emotionally provoking, yet doing it gently at the same time..  Love the ending.

EXCELLENT

 

Thank you! I'm certainly quite proud of it. :) Perhaps the Lydian in the beginning could have been less awkward, but a player can fix that!

It's so quiet and  introspective- I like such compositions. And  I'm impressed, how excellent technically it is.

Very nice. The title is aptly named after the sentiments the music carries. Feels like a sacred memory.

EDIT: the last notes feel like the pitter patter of raindrops off flower petals, evoking scenery and the feeling of a story.

I know this topic is quite old, but I did not have the time to give you useful and meaningful feedback until now. 

Lovely!

The harmonies and melodies are rich and indeed they contain something impressionistic. 

Just when I got the feeling that the music was too much of the same (until m.16), the more vivid part from m.17 began. You have chosen the perfect moment to introduce a new theme or part. The lively atmosphere is not solely caused by the sixteenth-triplets in the left hand, but also by the more deep bass notes that create a warmer mood opposed to the relatively high notes in the first part.
In the second part I have the feeling that you overuse the arpeggios, only a little bit though. Of course these arpeggios are one of the most important motives in this piece, but three consecutive arpeggios is too much for me (!). 

Nice intermezzo at m.28, which breaks the flow of the second warm part so that you can easily let the first theme come back. To continue you introduce another theme in m.44, but to me it does not really contrast with the preceding first theme, because they both sound in the same register. The just introduced theme rather sounds like a phasing out  or extension of the preceding part. 

I like the last part too where the notes gradually fade out.

Very well done!

Maarten