From baroque to romantic : a trans-generational piece :)

This piece reflects the following story:

A young woman living in a 19th Century French town finds, while exploring her family home attic, music manuscripts composed by her great-great grandfather, from northern Germany, who composed in the baroque style of his time and place.  One of his two-part preludes was unfinished!  The woman set out to finish the piece, trying very hard to keep to the same baroque style.  But alas, her time and place shone through, and the second part of the prelude, written by her, turns out to be a romantic piece written in counterpoint.

I hope you like it! :)

What a lovely and nice piece. I like the story.

Yes, I like it a lot! A very gentle and thoughtful piece that blends baroque, galant and romantic style. It reminds me of some very sensitive interpretations of the Well-Tempered Clavier (especially the second part of this prelude) that show similar qualities.

1 hour ago, Luis Hernández said:

What a lovely and nice piece. I like the story.

 

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Luis, Many thanks for listening, and your kind comment.  I am very glad you liked the piece.

38 minutes ago, Willibald said:

Yes, I like it a lot! A very gentle and thoughtful piece that blends baroque, galant and romantic style. It reminds me of some very sensitive interpretations of the Well-Tempered Clavier (especially the second part of this prelude) that show similar qualities.

 

Willibald,  Thank you for listening. And I appreciate your thoughts very much.

On 10/7/2017 at 1:27 PM, ilv said:

Good job overall. I found the parallel octaves and the pause to be awkward, but that's all.

 

ilv,

Thank you for listening, and for commenting - I appreciate it.  The parallel octaves and all the other notes in there are, in my view of my own piece, the correct notes, not to be replaced by any other notes.  It may be that the theory states that octaves are to be avoided, but of course theory is derived from music (not the other way around) so I write the music I want the way that makes sense to me.  I am interested in writing melodic music that follows what to me sounds like a logical and meaningful musical discourse.  This, of course, does not mean that other composers -- some better composers than myself -- will hear it as either logical or meaningful.  It is often said that music is a universal language, but actually it can perceived very differently by different people.

Perhaps the pause is awkward.  But if you play the passage without a pause, then it sounds even more awkward to me.  When something big happens in front of you, you don't just "move along", you slow down at least.  Not slowing down would be unnatural and truly awkward.  The music here had to pause because something major had happened; namely, it had reached a sort of logical dead end -- it tried to keep going with the baroque style, but the melody itself of the second half of the piece had encoded within a formula that would lead to a dead end, and the only way to carry on with it was to move towards a more outwardly romantic (Chopinesque) feeling.  So the realization that it had reached a dead end was a noteworthy occurrence, a major occurrence, that required pause before resuming, now in a Romantic style. The only way (in my opinion) to not have that pause is to not have that phrase, and to not have that phrase we can't have that opening theme for the second movement. We'd need to start that second movement differently.  The theme we have now blossoms naturally onto that phrase, that dead end, which cannot be experienced without pause.  It all goes together, at least in my mind. But not universally felt that way.

Mariza

I liked this one :)

Also the title of the thread was really attractive to me :D as I also do music not thinking in a specific period, whatever it comes out, other things are more relevant to me than the classification (example: if it has musical soul or not, cohesion, etc.)

Congrats.

A very nice and thought out piece. Baroque and classical together!  I thought of more of such pieces like this, when Baroque meets modern.

2 hours ago, zhenkang said:

A very nice and thought out piece. Baroque and classical together!  I thought of more of such pieces like this, when Baroque meets modern.

 

Oh, I would LOVE to hear your pieces with Baroque and modern elements!

On 10/12/2017 at 12:37 PM, Donethur said:

I liked this one :)

Also the title of the thread was really attractive to me :D as I also do music not thinking in a specific period, whatever it comes out, other things are more relevant to me than the classification (example: if it has musical soul or not, cohesion, etc.)

Congrats.

 

Thank you for your comment, Donethur. I like your music as well.

I will, but I need to sharpen my skills first.