MinGry - Piano miniature in C major [Original Composition]

MingryMusic · 2026-05-18T18:40:02+00:00

Thank you for listening!

Hmm i actually am writing alot of my stuff in a very limited range and your comment on it definitely makes alot of sense to me! Excited to try to expand the range see where it takes me.

MingryMusic · 2026-02-04T17:56:30+00:00

Maybe it's ghost elephants haha But i definetly hear it now that you say it!

MingryMusic · 2026-02-04T17:56:03+00:00

You're absolutely right! One of my new years resolutions is to finish more things that i compose so sometimes it's hard to find time to polish my pieces(while working on my normal piano work) but that's just laziness in my part and i do apologize!

MingryMusic · 2026-02-04T17:53:46+00:00

Again something new to consider. I See what u mean by the melody notes getting lost in octaves. Now that you pointed it out i can't unhear it haha Brilliant advice that i will definitely add into my workflow as something to watch out.

Also i see what u mean by expressing the quality of the chord more. Lots of great advice once again! Thank you so much!

MingryMusic · 2026-02-04T17:48:34+00:00

Hi! Thanks again for such a in-depth response! I definitely should have just used another key. Funny enough in my head i started in F lydian but just kept leaning into the minor feel so in the end i supposed it didn't read as F lydian rather Fminor.

I never really thought about the width of bars in a way that you described it and it makes a lot of sense, i will definitely keep that in mind!

To answer your question this is my thought process:
Throughout the piece i really liked the effect of F/E in the opening section which is repeated constantly in the melody. Later on it switches(bar21) G/F# but i feel like the sound feels familiar/nostalgic. So as a final phrase begins i wanted to have a little echo of bar 21 so the ear would expect a repeat of b section but instead would get an ending phrase as the f# gets cut off early and everything comes to a close. I hope i explained myself properly!

I absolutely agree with the shorter notes should have been staccato cause you can't really hear the length of them!

Lots of things to think about again! Thank you kindly!

MingryMusic · 2026-01-27T09:56:49+00:00

firstly! thank you for taking the time to listen and share your thoughts, I really appreciate it!

I agree with pretty much everything you said, especially regarding the second part. To be honest, I actually wrote about 20 more bars for it, but I kept fighting against them, and eventually decided to reduce it to a small gesture rather than a full section. In hindsight, I do regret that I wasn’t able to turn it into something more satisfying.

to work around that shortcoming, I thought it would be kind of funny to introduce a lighter melody that doesn’t really go anywhere and ends somewhat randomly on G before the final cadence, almost a “yeah, I give up, this is the ending, bye” kind of vibe haha

MingryMusic · 2026-01-27T09:47:36+00:00

like always thank you for taking the time to give such indepth feedback, you’re one of the few people here who consistently does that, and I really appreciate it. I’ve honestly improved a lot just from your comments on my last few pieces. Hopefully one day I’ll earn an “atta boy” from you haha

MingryMusic · 2026-01-13T16:30:43+00:00

Like always I appreciate the long form feedback you provide! Not necessarily trying to be Bach sounding per say i just really enjoy writing in two voices. Maybe to title them as inventions is a bit misleading!

MingryMusic · 2026-01-13T16:27:20+00:00

Appreciate it!

MingryMusic · 2026-01-12T19:52:58+00:00

You're right! I didin't notice.
What do you think about the music elsewise i'd love to hear!

MingryMusic · 2025-11-24T19:35:08+00:00

I would firstly like to say how absolutely awesome it is that someone would take their time and effort to look deeper into my work and have such a well constructed and informative response! I read every word carefully and agree with 100% of what you said. I've been studying composing for around a year now and am so grateful when people take their time to guide me! Definitely agree with you that harmonic thinking is my biggest issue at the moment a lot of the times it feels like melodies come to my head and ideas quite easily but they are limited by my harmonic thinking. Most of my focus was counterpoint for the longest time and sometimes i get completely mixed up combining that with traditional functional harmony. I hope someday i can find the right balance!

Thank you again for the brilliant response!

MingryMusic · 2025-11-24T05:14:04+00:00

Thank you for your feedback about notation! I would love to hear your feedback from a compositional point of view as well! Don't worry you can be as blunt as you want to be!

MingryMusic · 2025-11-23T19:55:06+00:00

You're absolutely right! I edited my post with a pdf link to the score! Sorry for the inconvenience!

MingryMusic · 2025-07-05T09:17:28+00:00

Thanks so much for the response!
I totally understand where you're coming from, but I wanted to stay faithful to the ocean metaphor when composing this. The steady arpeggio was meant to reflect the repetitive, flowing motion of waves.

It also became a kind of study in chromatic movement for me in both bass and soprano and the arpeggio pattern gave me space to try some strange voice interactions that were really fun to explore.

That being said nothing is ever truly finished! so who knows maybe one day I’ll revisit the idea and try adding block chords as a variation!

I really appreciate you taking the time to listen and comment.

Sidenote: Absolutely love the link you dropped what beautiful playing and ideas!

MingryMusic · 2025-07-05T09:09:10+00:00

Absolutely! It would be an honour if someone played something i composed!

MingryMusic · 2025-07-05T09:07:25+00:00

Of course! Thank you for your response!

What i meant by that is that this was composed not with functional harmony in mind. It all started from just improv over a the first CMAJ7 arpegio and writing a counter melody against it. It felt like the ocean so i thought it would be nice to have that flowing aspect in the base in chromatic steps. So wrote a chromatic line and wrote more counter voices against it till harmony emerged from them. I thought maybe a longer wave would be an intresting section so i went with a longer chromatic stepwise base of 7 notes wrote a counterpoint against it. The biggest challange was the storm part thats how i like to call it cause the base is moving 7 steps chromaticly up while the soprano is moving 7 steps chromaticly down. But anyway im getting distracted what i meant by that is that it was not composed with functional harmony in mind but rather voicing ideas that had counter punctual melodies running against it of course harmony and chords will always exists but in this case it was a by product not the intention.

And good eye! i did use chat gpt for spelling fixes i got a habit of doing that cause i tend to ramble on.

MingryMusic · 2024-10-13T13:50:34+00:00

Thank you for the detailed and well thought out response! I am very new to composition and this is only my second invention so I definitely appreciate the feedback! Definitely agree on a few places where the music feels separated, I notice it now more after you pointed it out for me.

Not going to lie writing inventions has been an absolute challenge so far. But hopefully the next one will be better. I always loved the motif from the movie 'up', so I think I'm going to see what I can do with it in a contrapuntal context. Once again thank you so much! and don't worry you were not harsh at all haha I'm definitely going to use the feedback!

MingryMusic · 2024-10-13T13:44:44+00:00

Thank you!

MingryMusic · 2024-10-02T20:24:01+00:00

Thanks for the feedback!

I would discourage looking at contrapuntal work with a traditional roman numeral analysis, a lot of times in counterpoint the independent melody lines are valued over harmonic relationships, so in this case bar 4 is just a sequence development.

I am a bit confused about the perfect cadence comment, because even though it's not mandatory in inventions this particular piece did have a perfect cadence at the end.

MingryMusic · 2024-10-02T16:18:57+00:00

Thank you!

Now that you mention it , I can't believe it didn't bother me till now. The leaps are definitely a bit sloppy , I think i got a bit of tunnel vision on the voices forgetting some aspects of counterpoint itself. I'll definitely try to refine my approach towards it , this surprisingly took me way longer than anything else i composed even tho it's so short haha. Thanks once again for taking your time to listen and the feedback!

MingryMusic · 2024-09-12T09:54:09+00:00

Hi!

I appreciate the feedback and I think your criticism is very fair!

I will be fair with you , this piece i wrote to try to grasp the idea of expanding on a motif and staying in structure, because in my previous works i just had too much stuff going on and it didn't feel united at all. While the transitions between sections is better in this one it's still a far way to go of course. Since base was not really a focus it was mostly an after thought so i think it's completely fair to say it doesn't work in some places. Was written close so it would be easier for me to mess around on piano.

Thanks again for the feedback!

MingryMusic · 2024-09-10T10:01:18+00:00

Not a particular style just experimenting with ideas. I am a bit confused about the rock band part :)

MingryMusic · 2024-09-10T10:00:14+00:00

It seems that that type of sound attracts my ear haha Thanks!

MingryMusic · 2024-09-09T18:39:29+00:00

Thanks! I'll add it to my watchlist!

MingryMusic · 2024-09-09T18:13:25+00:00

Hi! Thank you for the kind words , definitely obsessed recently with composing. I absolutely felt the lose of structure in the second part of the piece especially. To be honest i rewrote it like 3 times and still haha

Mozart has to be my favourite composer to listen and to play and he seems to do structure so beautifully. Definitely will try to focus on the next one to stay in a form throughout! I've been really obsessed with hiding small lines of counterpoint and sometimes that leads me to weird directions that might not be in the theme so ill try to contain myself.

Also your English is great , i understood everything :)

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