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RE: Openmic-Tutorial for Pianists/Composers: How to compose a piano-melody @senzenfrenz
I'm new here, @senzenfrenz, so this is the first time I have seen you. I don't compose or play myself but I like your melancholy piece.
Did the melody come from playing with (improvising on) the pentatonic scale, before you though of developing it within a 16-bar structure?
For what it's worth - not much, I admit - the opening made me think of a motif from Mahler's 'Das klagende Lied' (33 seconds in: https://tinyurl.com/js9mj7v), though you quickly take it in a different direction.
Keep up the good work. Great to have some interesting - and original - musical content on the platform.
Welcome @gussiefinknottle, yes as you say it is first improvised and then developed as a musical form. And wow, yes, this is mahlers motif from the beginning of the "klagendes Lied", I wasn't aware of that. But I love mahlers music it is fantastic and I definitely am inspired by the german romantic composers, so perhaps I am using some motifs in a similar way intuitively. Thank you very much for your insightful reply!
Just one of the those strange coincidences - there are only 12 notes after all. It's a great little motiv, which is why it's in my head from the Mahler.