Waltz, Op. 2

So, I have not finished my Opus 1 yet... But I suddenly felt the inspiration to write this waltz. It's really short and compact, but still I hope you guys like it! 🙂 Any comments would be appreciated! 🙂

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And to all the people out there celebrating Lunar New Year's Eve, have a blessed New Year! 

A Classical waltz, very cool! Most waltzes I have listened to have been in the Romantic style. This piece gets very interesting after the 1 minute mark. Your harmony is much more interesting here, kudos! And I love the part at 1:40, right before the waltz goes back to root key. The only thing I will say that when you compose music, try varying your harmonies a little more. For example, when we look at your first page, there are no accidentals. This tells us that we are in strict key! And sometimes this is fine, especially if you are trying to write a folk tune, or something simple. But this piece would greatly benefit from a little more harmonic variation.

If you have not watched my Valentine's Day video yet, be sure you do! I talk about the role of harmony in Romantic music. You may enjoy it, and learn a few things along the way.

Hi Matthan!

Great job creating an accessible melody and varying it effectively with a modulation out of the home key and back to it before the end (which also sounds conclusive).  I think this piece would benefit from being played a bit slower as currently your figurations at measure 120 & 122 are on the brink of impossible.

Another big thing that would greatly improve my appreciation of this piece is if you brought out the melody by using velocities.  It sounds like you're using the Musesounds piano in this rendition and unfortunately, changing velocity with Musesounds won't make any audible difference at the moment (don't ask me why).  But you can use any MSBasic soundfonts and velocities should work (and the MSBasic piano is actually pretty good if you download the reverb effects off of Musehub).  Right now your accompaniment is too loud and the melody isn't brought out enough imo.  It makes it sound very mid even though there's dynamics hairpins because there's no hierarchy of importance - balance.

Because of how you harmonized your melody it also sounds like just tremolo between two chords.  It might serve to remove some of the thickness from the texture sometimes.

But this is on the whole an enjoyable piece - thanks for sharing!

Peter 

Yup, a very classic waltz, as @chopin has mentioned.

I like the modulations and the chromatic motif towards the end. the motif with 2 quavers and a crotchet which keep appearing throughout the piece reminds me of Chopin's Grand Valse Brilliant, op. 18.

12 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

It sounds like you're using the Musesounds piano in this rendition and unfortunately, changing velocity with Musesounds won't make any audible difference at the moment (don't ask me why)

Fellow Musescore user here. Unfortunately this is the case : (

12 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Right now your accompaniment is too loud and the melody isn't brought out enough imo.  It makes it sound very mid even though there's dynamics hairpins because there's no hierarchy of importance - balance.

Maybe it would do justice to put a softer corresponding dynamic in the lh. It is possible.

And just a personal takes here, just find it nicer with some legatos for the quaver thirds of the rh and some pedaling when the harmonies don't change much, esp when muses score's playback is not really smooth.

Thanks for sharing @latebeethoven_addict ! I have followed you in Muse score! Managed to find your account thanks to the link you had posted in the discord group.