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  • hw1234 changed the title to Piano Sonata 2 Complete
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Hey @hw1234,

Your harmonic plan for the movement is good, with the first half ends on the dominant G major and the movement ends on tonic C major! You even have your opening material return in the very end! Is this a three movement work or a single movement work? The voice leading and the harmonic progression is also getting better now, I don't many weird chords and abrupt passages now! Good job!

That said, you can still make economically use of your materials! It's still quite short for a multi-movement work! The second movement (b.41)'s harmonic progression is not quite satisfactory as the key is not defined and it ends on a G major chord unestablished previously. If you want to modulate to that key you should add a half cadence before ending on that key!

Thanks for sharing,

Henry

  • 4 weeks later...
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Hi again HW. A bit late but anyway: for future reference, please post at least the mp3s here since people will not need to abandon the site and open a new tab in order to listen.

Various things to comment here:

• Do you think the fact this work was composed in an hour is positive?

• I agree with Henry on the fact that the work is still quite short for a multi-movement work or a sonata even if it's made up of a single movement. I am not even sure if it's multi-movement'ed by the score, I can just suspect it by the music which is good but I encourage engraving it precisely.

• Despite I am aware terraced dynamics were possible by Harpsichords in certain ways, I'm not really sure if they can do fortepianos the usual way one would do in a piano nowadays, nor things like these: image.png.

• Apart from that, I would discourage the use of precise changes in tempo like these image.png. While for machines it indeed makes plenty of sense, it might not be the case for real human performers, which may get a much better sounding and understanding on the piece when using approximate tempo markings accompanied by character words. 

That's all for now.

Kind regards,
Daniel–Ømicrón.

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