Étude Scintillante

I wrote this one back in 2014 while exploring triplets in waltz form. Ten years later, I thought it'd be fun to revise and share it with you guys. It originally had a "Waltz" in the title, but I decided to change it to Étude Scintillante (or Scintillate Etude), which roughly means "sparkling study," since the high triplets remind me of sparkly stuff. If that makes sense.

Hope you enjoy it!

Hi @arpeggia,

I quite enjoy the waltz/etude! The modulation to Ab major is quite surprising and this part reminds me the Scherzo of Chopin’s Sonata 3. Delightful modulation to tonic major before the end too. What fingerings will you give to those octaves like b.112? 1-5-1 seems quite hard for it. Thx for sharing!

Henry

Hi @arpeggia,

really great work, I very much enjoyed it! I agree with Henry, there is a "Chopin" flavour to it (e.g.: from b. 42 to b.51) .

I especially enjoyed the transition around b. 31,  then the section from bb. 64 to 77 --> really very clever move, super interesting!

And in general, I really enjoyed the transitions from triplets to eighths (and vice-versa), they give a feeling of great energy.

PS: was it a recording? If so, what at performance!!!

Thanks for sharing, I liked it,

Kind regards,

Julien

I liked it very much. It is very sparkling indeed and has charm. And something I like is that it has a good speed, where everything is recognizable (I don't like it so much when we go too fast for no reason).
The textures are nice and changing and I think they, on their own, are shaping the piece.

Hello @arpeggia!

Wonderful piece!  I love how the difficulty is tempered well by a knowledge of what is possible to play easily.  You use 6th's in the melodic line but they enclose the note that follows in a way that makes those passages easy to play.  And your score has a conspicuous absence of 16th notes which at this tempo might be a bit on the difficult side.  8th notes and 8th note triplets are enough for you to create a pretty showy and virtuosic variation of the main melody!  And I love the contrasting section in the parallel major mode and the relative major mode!  I almost forgot to say something about the great use of the Neapolitan chord in D minor which gives the piece a very dreary atmosphere.  Great job and thanks for sharing!

Wonderful piece! I like the variation in structure and the modulations.At the same time, the piece is very cohesive. Congratulations.