I received very helpful feedback in today's class. My piece was composed in its entirety yesterday (all 20 measures of it..), so it hadn't really settled with me, and I was unsure of what to do with it next.
Several aspects that people liked were pointed out, and in most cases, they felt could be developed a little more. These included:
-play the recurring grace-note melody in LH as opposed to RH.. or just try moving it around in register
-develop the idea of hitting a low register note/chord fortissimo, followed by a long single-note melodic phrase. More specifically, having multiple big bangin' chords/notes before the melodic phrase kicks in... keep the listener wondering when the motive will finally come back!
-develop the 2-voice contrapuntal texture that enters near the end of some of the phrases
-develop the more open-sounding arpeggiated accompanimental figure (holy mouthful) that doesn't appear until the last few measures
I like all these ideas, but above all, what struck me most was when Dr. Ross said that what I had so far felt like a very good "introduction". and I agree.. I like the flow of the material I have so far, I think it sits on certain ideas for just the right amount of time, but it does seem to be setting the listener up for more. The arpeggiated accompaniment figure comes in near the end, and if I wanted it to, could really go on and take the piece to a more concrete and open sounding middle section. So I think I'll do just that... start by developing that figure, see where it takes me, and try to incorporate all the other suggestions within the new material that I will base on the pre-established motives.
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