This is my last piece for summer! I hope you like it. It's a small but very expressive Lullaby. Unfortunatly, musescore playback cannot express this piece very well, so the best thing is to download the score and play it with your interpretition in the piano. Pleaze feel free to leave comments! Lullaby: A lullaby is a soothing song, usually sung to young children before they go to sleep, with the intention of speeding that process. As a result they are often simple and repetitive. Lullabies written by established classical composers are often given the form-name berceuse, which is French for lullaby, or cradle song. Chopin's Opus 57 is a berceuse for solo piano. Other famous examples of the genre include Maurice Ravel's Berceuse sur le nom de Gabriel Fauré for violin and piano; the Berceuse élégiaque by Ferruccio Busoni; the Berceuse from the opera Jocelyn by Benjamin Godard; the Berceuse by Igor Stravinsky which is featured in the Firebird ballet, and Lullaby for String Quartet by George Gershwin. German composer's Paul Graener last movement of his Suite From The Realm of Pan is entitled Pan sings the world a lullaby. American composer's Michael Glenn Williams Berceuse for solo piano uses an ostinato similar to Chopin's but in a 21st-century harmonic context. Pretty, BarryP's advice is very useful. I thought the tempo was too fast for a lullaby, and the left hand rhythm rather dull and a little annoying sorry - Bum ching ching ching ching ching, I would prefer Bum a ching ching a ching if you can understand me. Also I would Reduce the no. Bar 9 and 10 and maybe 11 there are discords at the end of the bar and your key sig has sharps and your accidentals have flats. How about a glissando for the last chord and a ritardando for the last 6 or 7 bars and why would a lullaby end with a crescendo? A nice tune, but with better dynamics and pedalling and tempo you can get a nice sound but sometimes the improvements are quite fiddly, but very worth while. Pretty, BarryP's advice is very useful. I thought the tempo was too fast for a lullaby, and the left hand rhythm rather dull and a little annoying sorry - Bum ching ching ching ching ching, I would prefer Bum a ching ching a ching if you can understand me. Also I would Reduce the no. Bar 9 and 10 and maybe 11 there are discords at the end of the bar and your key sig has sharps and your accidentals have flats. How about a glissando for the last chord and a ritardando for the last 6 or 7 bars and why would a lullaby end with a crescendo? A nice tune, but with better dynamics and pedalling and tempo you can get a nice sound but sometimes the improvements are quite fiddly, but very worth while. I have a Yamaha C3 6'1'' grand, and it cost me about 30,000 About 18,000 euros? You could get a decent grand for 10000 euros. An ipod is only 250 about 150 euros? Canadian dollars, and it's quite worth it. It has everything from a recording device to mobile passes. A grand piano is probably the best investment a musician could make: the sound and feel is completely different. I have a Yamaha C3 6'1'' grand, and it cost me about 30,000 About 18,000 euros? You could get a decent grand for 10000 euros. An ipod is only 250 about 150 euros? Canadian dollars, and it's quite worth it. It has everything from a recording device to mobile passes. A grand piano is probably the best investment a musician could make: the sound and feel is completely different. This is a very beautiful piece. I'm certain that on a real piano that it would sound beautiful. Just an idea: even though musescore playback is less than satisfactory there are some tricks one can do to improve the sound. First tempo variations can be hidden in the piece and one can alter them very subtly. This actually is the best thing to do for a good effect in musescore since one can easily hear tempo changes - even on lousy computer speakers. The next thing to make musescore playback sound better is to use the dynamics. I think that in your piece you only have dynamic marking p at the beginning. It does look at fff, ff, mf, p, pp etc. This piece sounds loud since musescore will always play at the loudest possible volume. If you have only one dynamic marking and that is ppp, then musecore will blast the piece! So if you have some variation in the dynamics musescore will alter it. The final thing that works for piano music is to use the pedal. Pedal DOES work in playback in musescore. The default musescore piano sounds a little thin, but using pedal can do wonders. Of course, these little playback tricks DO take some time to implement and whether they're worth the effort is anyone's guess. I do this stuff ALL the time in my pieces and if you download the musescore format file and look at my pieces you'll see tempo changes, dynamic changes and pedal marks all over the place and many are hidden. Finally thanks for posting this little gem of a piece! This is a very beautiful piece. I'm certain that on a real piano that it would sound beautiful. Just an idea: even though musescore playback is less than satisfactory there are some tricks one can do to improve the sound. First tempo variations can be hidden in the piece and one can alter them very subtly. This actually is the best thing to do for a good effect in musescore since one can easily hear tempo changes - even on lousy computer speakers. The next thing to make musescore playback sound better is to use the dynamics. I think that in your piece you only have dynamic marking p at the beginning. It does look at fff, ff, mf, p, pp etc. This piece sounds loud since musescore will always play at the loudest possible volume. If you have only one dynamic marking and that is ppp, then musecore will blast the piece! So if you have some variation in the dynamics musescore will alter it. The final thing that works for piano music is to use the pedal. Pedal DOES work in playback in musescore. The default musescore piano sounds a little thin, but using pedal can do wonders. Of course, these little playback tricks DO take some time to implement and whether they're worth the effort is anyone's guess. I do this stuff ALL the time in my pieces and if you download the musescore format file and look at my pieces you'll see tempo changes, dynamic changes and pedal marks all over the place and many are hidden. Finally thanks for posting this little gem of a piece!
