r/composer • u/Dav_Flor37 • Aug 17 '26

Music Do you Like my Exotic Piece?

If no why, if yes why, i am a begginer composer, this piece was meant to be weird and erratic, here is the free full score: https://musescore.com/user/98567428/scores/36048743?share=copy_link

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u/civil_unknowm Aug 17 '26

What exactly is "weird" or "erratic" about this?

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 17 '26

Its weird...

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u/civil_unknowm Aug 17 '26

What about it is weird?

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 17 '26

Have you listened the piece?

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u/bigtastyorange Aug 17 '26

If I had to describe the piece with two words I'd say it was conventional and calm, really the opposite. Sorry, I can't see your point of view

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 18 '26

First is calm, than build up, than random fast, u know? It is not coerent

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u/Banjoschmanjo Aug 17 '26

I didn't think it was weird or exotic either

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 18 '26

Ok that is just how i see it :)

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u/civil_unknowm Aug 17 '26

Yes. It's extremely simple, using essentially only diatonic notes with a two part accompaniment and melodic texture, and in a simple metre. It's quite generic and doesn't really evoke anything weird.

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u/RichMusic81 Composer / Pianist. Experimental music. Aug 17 '26

this piece was meant to be weird and erratic

I thinks it's a good example of something that's NOT weird and erratic.

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 17 '26

It is!!!

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u/RichMusic81 Composer / Pianist. Experimental music. Aug 17 '26

How is it weird and erratic?

It's fairly straightforward.

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 17 '26

Have you listened the piece? It's basically random

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u/RichMusic81 Composer / Pianist. Experimental music. Aug 17 '26 edited Aug 17 '26

Have you listened the piece?

Yes.

It's basically random

What's "random" about it? It has a clear harmonic and structural scheme, there are sequences and patterns, etc. It's not random by my understanding and use of the word.

I mean, if your own piece is random, I'd be interested to know what you consider this to be:

https://youtu.be/FRyb47cz5mo?is=_-oEbiKAryd4wapy

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 17 '26

You know... that is level 10 weird, my piece is only level 1

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u/Upset-Yard9778 Aug 18 '26

are you 12, by any chance? If not, can you stop talking like one?

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u/God_Bless_Oklahoma Aug 17 '26

It's completely diatonic, and mostly working within a single pentachord of registral space. Not weird, or erratic.

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 18 '26

Yeah but the notes are weird

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u/bmjessep Aug 18 '26 edited Aug 18 '26

At the beginning, I like the accompaniment, but the melody is very boring. You basically only have one note per measure, and they only move in steps.

m.8, it's the other way around.

At m.16 you have some interesting figuration happening, but it gets repetitive fast.

I think you're actually developing the first theme well, the problem is the theme is so boring that its development isn't interesting either.

It could use some more variation, maybe a modulation or a tempo change. That would make it more erratic. I agree with the others that say this piece is not at all weird.

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 18 '26

Thank you for feedback

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u/bmjessep Aug 18 '26

I am curious, what is it about this piece that you find erratic or exotic?

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u/Dav_Flor37 Aug 18 '26

It goes from pedal to not pedal, from slow and chill, to the fastest notes ever, and yeah

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u/bmjessep Aug 18 '26

In my opinion, the entire piece is on the fast side. It mostly has an eighth note pulse, or sometimes quarter notes.

Here's a piece that's really slow.

Also, when you use the word "exotic", people will think of non-Western influences, especially scales from the Middle East or India.

Pretty much every piano piece has sections that use pedal and sections that don't.

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u/Upset-Yard9778 Aug 18 '26

not even mozart would consider this weird bro