I may regret this

[pastwatcher]

and this is going to take me not much short of forever, but here goes...
If you comment here, I'll tell you what kind of musical piece you are.
(The idea comes vaguely from lowellboyslash, mikevonkorff, occultatio, and tiamat360, and khyros...I think that's it so far...)

Comments

[orions-eagle.livejournal.com]

What kind of piece am I? :)

[pastwatcher]

You are, of course, like your compositions, or rather some of them...I could cop out and say "Some Days and Some Nights," but I won't. This also didn't come out exactly as I meant it, but...

The piece begins with a few loud minor chords on an electronic keyboard, and quiets. The right hand moves high and plays a simple, quick melody in D major, that is not quite an ostinato; the left hand begins the main theme of the piece, centered not far above middle C: a melody and harmonic chords with little rhythmic variation but notes that don't follow any expected cadences. It becomes slow and dissonant and in G minor...then the right hand and left hand scurry in opposite directions in E major, seeming to hit every note on the piano in seconds, but in perfect harmony, and fast and syncopated. After a little while, the left and right hand both play low and slowly in A minor, not harmonizing well despite the rhythm that mostly lines up. The left hand continues this while the right drifts up to return to its melody, this time played in A minor. It slows down and the left and right modulate to a haunting finish. It is the kind of piece that should be amazing...if only it could find a piano on which to play itself, it would hold rapt those without the attention span or imagination to hear what the keyboard cannot express.

[tiamat360.livejournal.com]

Tararaboomdeay...

[pastwatcher]

A toccata: a fast-moving piece full of notes, that one plays to show off one's skill on an instrument. Never in the same key or the same dynamic for more than a few seconds, it covers the full range of the instrument. I makes much more use of one-line melodies than chords, but woe betide the slow-witted audience, who will grasp nothing of the piece before it is over!

[timmypowg.livejournal.com]

If you say Mozart I'll kill you. (:

[pastwatcher]

I can't change it, it's too persistent:
A jazzy, improvisational version of "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring." On a pianoforte, of course. No trumpets!

[ophblekuwufu.livejournal.com]

:-) ?

[pastwatcher]

A nocturne on the grand piano, perhaps like my favorite Chopin nocturne in C minor. It starts with a simple, quiet melody that immediately captivates its audience. The left hand comes in with soft chords, the two hands together richly weaving, never with a dissonant step. The right hand soars high with graceful trills while the left hand plays soft chords with rushing low eighth notes, bringing to mind stars in the night sky. It modulates to the relative major and grows faintly faster for a minute, then to the dominant minor where it repeats the melodies of the beginning. At the end, the right hand ascends to a high note that is held not quite long enough, and then tumbles down to a gentle, slow finish into the original minor chord with the left hand.

[wolfheart17.livejournal.com]

This is fun. wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

[lord-codfish.livejournal.com]

Okay, go ahead. (And don't forget my meme!)

[thekinginyellow.livejournal.com]

Music, eh?

[pastwatcher]

The piece is in 4/4, starting with a sforzando diminished chord in full orchestra. It quiets immediately, and a violin and piccolo play a high, andante melody exactly a tritone apart, which crescendoes and continues. After a few measures the low brass and string instruments and piano come in and crescendo to fortissimo, playing something that would be an ostinato except that it is different every time; the first beat of every measure has a jangling dissonance. These instruments continue this theme throughout the piece, though the theme always decrescendoes gradually and then jump back up to forte when they have grown too quiet. The violin and piccolo begin a clever, dancing tune that does not always have dissonance, but is never boring. As the piece progresses, the contrasting parts begin to fit together, and with careful listening one sometimes makes out a beautiful, simple cello baseline. Then the low ostinato resurges...

[dry-martini.livejournal.com]

Elevator Muzak

[dergnoam.livejournal.com]

sure!

[khyros.livejournal.com]

Go for it.