Now, why did I choose to rework "The Gnome's Grand Adventure," you wonder? There are several reasons. First, the original score is a disaster, full of basic part writing errors, poor voicing, and boring harmonies. Doing the rewrite for the piano was an obvious course of action for me. I wanted to make it playable, and I wanted to augment my volume of piano pieces. One day I want to make a book of them. Focusing on recasting all the harmonies and several melodies such that they are not technically horrid, I think that I have made "The Gnome's Grand Adventure" into a far more interesting piece of music. Notice that the middle section is almost completely different. It was beyond help, really. I was also able to balance the structure with a coda, and I was happy to defeat what had once been a very abrupt ending.
Enough on the specific changes I made. I would also like to state why, of all the error-ridden pieces of music I have composed, did I choose "The Gnome's Grand Adventure" to change. First of all, it has the most wonderful subjects: gnomes and adventure. I do not feel the need to explain why these are such elevated themes, so I will move on to my second reason, that being the propensity and nature of comments I have received about this piece. It is the one that is most frequently mentioned to me by my friends. I mean, on the relatively uncommon instance that I wind up in a conversation about my music, I remember hearing about "The Gnome's Grand Adventure" more than any others. Since of course I do not actually keep track of this sort of thing, I could be wrong, but you see my reasoning. For another, I believe that "The Gnome's Grand Adventure" has been complimented above its musical comrades more than any other. The final push came when in the middle of December I found out that "The Gnome's Grand Adventure" might be the piece of music that is most associated with me, at least by one excellent reader. How could I let its defective form live on after that?
Without further ado, let me express my thanks that the song of my little gnome has been appreciated. I hope that I have made it better to ears other than my own.
2 comments:
It really is much better this way. Before, I sometimes wished that I actually liked it for more than its subject and its beginning. I'm glad that my favorite aspect of it was kept. The only way I have of describing it is through sound/motion though, so I can't really type it. I wasn't all that fond of the transitions between the middle and the end in the older one, so I'm glad that's been changed. I didn't have an issue with the abrupt ending of the old one, but the new ending is a pleasant addition.
It was really the idea of the song that reminded me of you more than how it actually went, but now it sounds closer to you too.
I would be interested in these descriptive sounds and motions.
The original transition there did not make any sense at all. I think it was D major to d minor, which makes even less sense between two large structures.
Thanks for the comments.
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