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So today, I thought I should share some of my musical compositions with the community; that is including the music itself, the story/inspirations behind them, a little analysis on each of the pieces, and of course, my usual blabber as always.
Care to listen?....
LoL, if procrastination was a type of food, I would've died long ago of obesity! Ha, in all honesty, I don't know why I procrastinated so much with this Waltz — especially with the coda.
Written some time early last year, Waltz No.3 is a short(around three minutes) piece for solo piano composed in the style of the Western Classical music's sub genre — Waltz. As the name implies, it's been written in 3/4 time and has that good ol fashion "1 - 2 -3" rhythm feeling to it.
In general, the Waltz is characterized by it's light hearted and humorous tone and can be quite virtuosic(technically challenging) at times in some passages.
Probably why a machine played this rendition instead👀
Funny thing, the first motif (those first 4 little opening bars) came to me at of nowhere if I'm being honest. So there i was, sitting in my balcony, not even dreaming of wanting to compose another Waltz when — BOOM! Out of the bloom came this little theme:
Soh - do - re - mi - fa - so - la - soh - fa - mi - re - doh - re - doh - re - doh - soh - doh
Lol, it makes more sense with the score😅
Of course, as it often is with random musical phrases that pop into my head every now and then, I quickly grabbed a pen and my scorebook, and frantically wrote down the motif on score along with some few other sketches. And the end result after developing the theme: a mostly mediocre piano piece!
If you skip to the ending part of the first piece, you'll hear this odd, virtuosic, cartoonist sounding coda(conclusion) bringing the Waltz to a end. Now, in as much as I completed all the sections in 3 - 4 days, the coda actually took SIX MONTHS to complete! And it wasn't even due to something like creative slump or a well deserved hiatus or anything thing that, nah... it was because of one and one thing only — my procrastinating ass!
I'll finish the ending next week...
I said.
Okay fine, next TWO weeks...
I said.
Shit... maybe next month?
I said.
Goodness gracious!!! It's next month already???... Okay, okay, I swear on my life that by next NEXT month, I would have been done with everything!
I said. Then fast forward to the ending of that year, and that would've been when I finally decided to start writing the coda.
Now, this was one of my earlier pieces. I wrote it when I was 15 or 16, I believe. The piece is characterized by it's simple left hand ostinato (repeated patterns) accompanying a much more technically difficult right hand with sweet melodies written in two voices.
The piece was actually inspired by a vacation I took with my family to my mother's maternal home(Village).
Actually, this one was written this year! I really don't have much to say about it except that it's mostly a relaxing piece with easy arpeggios(broken chords) and melodies on the right hand, while the left hand plays the accompanying bass.
Ahh... I always imagined this piece would be perfect for autumn: maybe in a nice park with autumn leaves trailing the floor, maybe in a nice garden, or maybe even at an outdoor reception of a wedding or something, I don't know... just some where peaceful :)
Anyway, that's all for now. I hope you enjoyed the music and notions I shared,as much I enjoyed sharing them with you.
In the coming weeks, I would be sharing more of my compositions along with the inspirations/stories behind them.
But for now...
Farewell and Take care of yourself🤍
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