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"Lunatic Calm"
Apr 2006, Apr 2010 || Score
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This is the first tune I wrote using solely piano sound. It was originally written as a piano 4 hands piece in 2006, and was revised to be finished as a piano duo piece in 2010.The title suggests the theme of the tune: sometimes calmness may seem more bothering to the mind than craze.
The piano sound comes from Steinberg's The Grand. My computer not being so high-spec, I had a hard time exporting the audio in high quality. After trying many different settings and failing, the solution found finally was to disable the anti-virus software for the moment and to set "Disk Streaming" at the max in The Grand. Both measures lighten the burden on the RAM, which seemed to have been the problem.
There are four tracks used for the piano. The top row in the image above represents what would be the right hand part for Piano 1. (This is a "piano duo" piece, requiring two pianists or two digital performances of piano.) Then the second top row is the left hand for Piano 1, the third row is the right hand for Piano 2, and the bottom is the left hand for Piano 2.
This is what the beginning of the score looks like. The tune starts with the key of F# minor, and at the tempo of 160 BPM. The clef on the top staff is a treble clef with octave-up transposition.
(Continued from the left column)
The tune changes its key to Gb major when it enters the more cheerful-sounding B section (00:45). The chord signatures you see here are GbΔ7, Abm7 and Bbm7 all of which are diatonic to the key, and GΔ7 which is thrown in there to give a chromatic "punch".
This is the section (03:01) where the tune becomes "modal". Here, it takes Gb Mixolydian mode. The time also shifts: it remains 4/4, but starts depending on triplets entirely.
This is where the music turns soft and starts the fast passages (03:26). Piano 1 and Piano 2 are in contrary motion. When Piano 1 goes down, Piano 2 goes up, and vice versa. The pedal is on for both pianos in order to give the misty, foggy atmosphere. The tempo goes down to 151 BPM here, and then gradually becomes faster to get back to the original speed of 160.
The tune changes its key to Gb major when it enters the more cheerful-sounding B section (00:45). The chord signatures you see here are GbΔ7, Abm7 and Bbm7 all of which are diatonic to the key, and GΔ7 which is thrown in there to give a chromatic "punch".This is the section (03:01) where the tune becomes "modal". Here, it takes Gb Mixolydian mode. The time also shifts: it remains 4/4, but starts depending on triplets entirely.This is where the music turns soft and starts the fast passages (03:26). Piano 1 and Piano 2 are in contrary motion. When Piano 1 goes down, Piano 2 goes up, and vice versa. The pedal is on for both pianos in order to give the misty, foggy atmosphere. The tempo goes down to 151 BPM here, and then gradually becomes faster to get back to the original speed of 160.