Nocturne Nº3 | Om. 50

Hi again guys!

I haven't uploaded anything here properly in a while, so I thought that despite this is kinda "old" already, it was a good idea to sumbit my third nocturne here. It is always nice to read some insightful feedback or some comments and opinions of the kind I receive and sometimes give here. This particular nocturne differs significantly in size, tempo, and possibly feeling with respect to the previous pair I uploaded here. I'm uploading a video and the PDF score for those who like me want to read and listen at the same time and don't really care about the visuals.

I hope you at least find it decent:

• Video: 

• PDF: 50 - Nocturno Nº3.pdf

 Here it is, and here I say:

Kind regards!!

In honesty, with the fast tempo and the more uplifting teasing tone of the melody with its grace notes and leaps, this sounds more like a gigue than really a nocturne. Nocturnes as far as I know are a bit more reflective and much slower to capture the night atmosphere. But if that's intended as a bold interpretation of the genre, then I'm fine with it. It's a very fun piece with its interesting harmonies. 

Jeje... I think a nocturne is a very wide concept. This one fits well in a night in my country. It's beautiful.

I love your music. There hasn't been anything I've listened to that I haven't enjoyed.

It's always cool to hear the evolution of a composer. I know this is an older one from you, and my only issue is that the transitions felt underdeveloped and too sudden, but your more recent pieces didn't feel that way. 

I feel like "nocturne" is a loose title, so don't feel like you have to adhere to anything special when writing one. This was night music to me.

Your style is something very much to the music I like to listen to for enjoyment, and this one didn't disappoint. It'd be cool if one day you published all of your nocturnes as a set, I'd buy it!

On 9/16/2022 at 2:14 AM, zhenkang said:

In honesty, with the fast tempo and the more uplifting teasing tone of the melody with its grace notes and leaps, this sounds more like a gigue than really a nocturne. Nocturnes as far as I know are a bit more reflective and much slower to capture the night atmosphere. But if that's intended as a bold interpretation of the genre, then I'm fine with it. It's a very fun piece with its interesting harmonies. 

 

As I may have said somewhere, I started to call them nocturnes simply because I made and finished them all (excepting the No. 20 perhaps) at night, not really because it resemble Chopin's or Field's, not even Fauré's or other composers' works (which I have listened and I don't think they would really agree in that every nocturne made by each one should be called like that according to each one's style or description). They kinda resemble nights to me, but they're not alike. Perhaps some of them are alike in pairs or trios...

In any case, you're totally right: the only thing this work shares with other composers' nocturnes might be that...It is single-movemented? Lol
Kind regards!

On 9/19/2022 at 9:01 PM, Luis Hernández said:

Jeje... I think a nocturne is a very wide concept. This one fits well in a night in my country. It's beautiful.

 

Definitely not a night in calm I guess, thank you Luis!
 

3 hours ago, Thatguy v2.0 said:

I love your music. There hasn't been anything I've listened to that I haven't enjoyed.

It's always cool to hear the evolution of a composer. I know this is an older one from you, and my only issue is that the transitions felt underdeveloped and too sudden, but your more recent pieces didn't feel that way. 

I feel like "nocturne" is a loose title, so don't feel like you have to adhere to anything special when writing one. This was night music to me.

Your style is something very much to the music I like to listen to for enjoyment, and this one didn't disappoint. It'd be cool if one day you published all of your nocturnes as a set, I'd buy it!

 

I will indeed publish my first "book of nocturnes" sooner or later. But I'm struggling with the 23rd (composing it right now) most likely because it's the last one of this set. I even made a sonata before it this summer, something that I thought I wouldn't do again in a year or so.

Thank you for the nice feedback as always :), I will keep publishing some "old" music here after some reviewing and listening here and there.

Kind regards!!

There are so many interesting elements in this nocturne. I think it fits into the genre of nocturne. I remember Chopin's op.9 no.3 in B major is also witty in its main sections. Nocturne isn't necessarily expressive and sweet.

I love the middle section in E major most. For me that's the most expressive part of the nocturne, just like the "typical" nocturne of Field and Chopin (obviously Chopin would not agree with "typical nocturne style"). It's sweet and provides contrast with the main section which is witty and funny.

On 9/23/2022 at 2:56 AM, Thatguy v2.0 said:

and my only issue is that the transitions felt underdeveloped and too sudden

I think only the theme in bar 53-64 feel underdeveloped and abrupt for me. If it reappears in the later half with a perfect cadence answer to the half cadence of its first announcement, the structure will seem more convincing (again, that's only my preference). 

On 9/23/2022 at 6:46 AM, Omicronrg9 said:

I will indeed publish my first "book of nocturnes" sooner or later. But I'm struggling with the 23rd (composing it right now) most likely because it's the last one of this set

The number of 23 is amazing! I am not sure the number of my complete works exceeds the number of fingers in my hands... And I have just posted 1 work here, since others are not polished or recorded. 

On 9/23/2022 at 6:46 AM, Omicronrg9 said:

I even made a sonata before it this summer, something that I thought I wouldn't do again in a year or so.

Will look forward to it if you post it here!!

On 9/23/2022 at 6:46 AM, Omicronrg9 said:

I will keep publishing some "old" music here after some reviewing and listening here and there.

Maybe I should try that too, even though I find them bad enough not to be posted here to shame other reviewers...