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"3:00 a.m. thoughts" (My best piece below 2 minutes)


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Henry Ng Tsz Kiu
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"Can’t imagine how tremendous tragedy can be portrayed in less than 2 minutes. Definitely your best piece Ivan!"

Ivan1791 was awarded the badge 'Master of Subtlety' and 5 points.

 

(Sorry for the viola clef mistake...)

Hello again. After 2-3 months with a considerable mental block I managed to start doing some progress and last night I composed a piece with this newly found creativity. This piece is a reflection of some of the feelings I haven't been unable to express in the past weeks.

I wasn't expecting to create it, I just sat down and started playing with some harmonies. But luckily it turned out to be one of my most expressive pieces in my opinion, even if it is just a miniature.

I hope you enjoy it!

 

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Hey Ivan! @Ivan1791

I really really really enjoy this. I love how you travel to different keys and harmonies before confriming the tonic of my fav. C sharp minor. The first chord, even it’s a C sharp minor chord with a D#, doesn’t feel like a tonic at all, and it moves further and further away with beautiful harmonic progression: a beautiful G minor seventh in b.2, D major plus minor seventh in b.3, augmented seventh in b.4, then a half/full diminished C# chord in b.5 in a local climax. After that C sharp minor starts becoming more and more apparent. The voice leading is so smooth, and when it gets unsmooth as in b.5 a tritone it’s so goddamn expressive like the Mahler 10th. If before b.10 the sadness is somewhat prevented by dissonant chords, after b.10 it’s profoundly expressed in the most direct, beautiful and tragic way. You’re so talented to write this out that I somewhat hope you can be less talented so you would be less painful, because for me I hear tremendous pain in it. I wanna congrats on the musical genius in the piece but I wanna cry with you instead Ivan. You act like Christ who crucified himself in order to bless us with this beautiful music. Thank you Ivan.

Henry

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