BCQMBCQM's twentieth originality - Symphonic Poem No. 1 - Vita Undulata: Feci, facio, faciam. (Wavy Life: I did, I do, I will do.)
Composition time: 2021/02/9 ~ 2024/02/10 Video production time: 2023/7/23 ~ 2024/02/29
This is the three-year dedication where the composer found a way to express his mental states. Based on his personal life and experience, the composer let the music flow with the peaks and valleys of his mind. After severe struggling, the vicissitude finally was calmed down and the ambition of the next move was gained.
BCQM - VITA UNDULATA: Feci, facio, faciam. [Sinfonische Dichtung № 1]BCQM2024-02-29 | BCQM's twentieth originality - Symphonic Poem No. 1 - Vita Undulata: Feci, facio, faciam. (Wavy Life: I did, I do, I will do.)
Composition time: 2021/02/9 ~ 2024/02/10 Video production time: 2023/7/23 ~ 2024/02/29
This is the three-year dedication where the composer found a way to express his mental states. Based on his personal life and experience, the composer let the music flow with the peaks and valleys of his mind. After severe struggling, the vicissitude finally was calmed down and the ambition of the next move was gained.
Should have upload yesterday for 112nd anniversary of the premier but I forgot to.
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Original: Années de pèlerinage. Première année: Suisse, S. 160 VI. Vallée d'Obermann (Obermann's Valley) by Liszt Ferencz.
INTRODUCTION 0:00 The master omitted the original introduction in the final version.
EXPOSITION 0:02 The main theme, composing of 4 portion. The first phrase goes from Em to Gm, and modulates up a minor third again to B♭m (M8), starting with "the descending motif (G-♯F-E)" and "the questioning motif (A-C-B)." 0:32 After that, the second phrase expands the questioning motif to a bridge, 0:47 connecting to the third phrase where the descending motif goes deeper and darker, representing the valley, the wail the depression. 1:27 Repeating questioning with descending baseline in the forth phrase ends with no answer. 1:59 The four-phrase main theme comes back again with some variation, with lighter third phrase and extended forth phrase. 3:59 The three descending motives go lower each time, representing the darkest valley. Liszt, in his old time, told his student to end this piece in this section (stop at M74), trapping listeners in the most depressed abyss. 4:30 The main theme is transformed and is now delicate, light, in C major, to even brighter A major (M92). 5:56 The bright theme ends, gradually turning darker when the diminished chords hit. 6:09 The arpeggio diminished seven chord creates the quasi cadenza which ends the section.
DEVELOPMENT (Recitativo)
6:19 Non-stopped tremolos of diminished chords makes the physical and psychological tension. 6:50 It goes even more intense, both the brighter and the darker version of main theme communicates to each other and builds up more tension. 7:16 The diminished chord bursts out and 7:29 screams to release all the emotions till everything comes down at Fm (M160). 7:53 After venting the emotions, one is exhausted but still questioning. The section is ended in the similar manner.
RECAPITULATION
8:40 The brighter main theme, now in E major, comes back. 9:34 Now the theme is inverted and ascending. 10:12 The theme comes back again, with repeating chords and in a more energetic form. 10:43 As expected, the energetic version of the inverted theme follows up. 11:09 The rhapsodic octave line followed by a string of martellato chords that bridge to the coda.
CODA
11:23 The brighter main theme alters chromatically, in a scale that cannot be classified, but with some diminished color. 11:33 The repeated descending motives in the bass followed by ascending E major arpeggio (M214) might be a epic ending; however, 11:45 The dark, truncated descending-questioning motif in E double harmonic scale return, with the unanswered question (Eaug-E) as the fine.mc 1.20.1 advancements (in battle cat friends server) vods - 3rd segmentBCQM2023-06-22 | mcspeedrun(?)mc 1.20.1 advancements (in battle cat friends server) vodsBCQM2023-06-22 | mcspeedrun(?)mc 1.20.1 advancements (in battle cat friends server) vods - 2nd segmentBCQM2023-06-22 | mcspeedrun(?)【貓咪大戰爭】梅露可合作道場 無精打采的修行 1% 紀錄 [The Battle Cats] Merc Storia Collab Dojo - Weak of Spirit 1% recordBCQM2023-02-27 | BGM: Toughness youtu.be/dysrnuqAdfYRandom Composition (Unnamed) for Brass and Percussion - BCQMBCQM2023-02-06 | BCQM's nineteenth originality - (Unnamed)
Initially the song for NTU chemistry camp but got rejected Composed from 1/19 to 1/29
This style of music was so hard for me :( I had tried my best.
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Original: Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata from Années de pèlerinage, deuxième année – Italie, S.161/7, and previous versions in S.158, by Liszt Ferencz.
This project started from 2022/6/26, with 200+ hours of work.
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Analysis
INTRODUCTION 00:12 Motif 1: Descending tritone passage. 00:20 Ascending diminished chords resolved to A flat major. 00:36 Motif 1 repeated: Descending tritone passage. 00:43 Ascending diminished chords resolved to F sharp major. 01:00 Descending tritone passage changes to fifth and then sixth. 01:11 Changes back to descending tritone with diminished chords. 01:27 Motif 2: D Hungarian minor scale ascending and then descending passage. 01:37 Augury of Theme 1, while the melody and accompany are exchanged.
EXPOSITION 01:52 Theme 1: Lamentoso chromatic passage in D minor. 02:22 Motif 2 as bridge, but this time in D harmonic minor. 02:25 Theme 1 repeated: Lamentoso chromatic passage in D minor. 03:00 Motif 1 as bridge. 03:05 Modified motif 2 as bridge, with chromatically ascending bass line. 03:19 Transition in D diminished seventh chords and chromatically descending passages. 03:31 Transition in staccato passages again with D diminished seventh chords. 03:41 Modified motif 1 in G (and B flat) as a transition, readily descends a whole tone. 03:46 Modified motif 1 in E flat as a transition. 03:50 Descending one more time, modified motif 1 in D flat as a transition to F sharp major. 03:54 Theme 2.a: I-♭VII-I-Vsus4-V chord progression in F sharp major. 04:06 Theme 2.b: Modulation to B flat major with iv-V-I (vi-VII-III in F sharp) chord progression. 04:12 Theme 2.c: Cadence with characteristic V13 chord and voice leading as codetta in B flat. 04:16 Theme 2.b': Modulates to C sharp harmonic major with IV-♯iv°-I chord progression. 04:22 Theme 2.c repeated, but this time in C sharp harmonic major.
DEVELOPMENT 04:26 Introduction is repeated, but resolved to G major and B flat minor respectively. 05:08 Theme 1 in F sharp major with very different color of sweetness and intimate feeling. 06:02 Theme 2 in F sharp major repeated, but with calmer tone. 06:26 In theme 2.b', instead of modulating to C sharp, this time modulating to D major. 06:39 Transition in D Phrygian dominant scale with elements from Theme 1. 06:57 Transition in D with elements of Theme 1 and extra tension built by D diminished chord. 07:14 Bridge in D Phrygian dominant scale. 07:30 Theme 3.a: sweet descending melody with tenderness in F sharp major. 07:46 The passage moves up a whole tone, and then moves again until settles in C. 08:08 Theme 3.b: heavenly F sharp major passage embellished with lots of flat sixth (D natural). 08:37 Quasi cadenza in D. 08:40 Transition in D with tension added by C sharp pedal notes. 08:52 Tension reaches the extrema with C♯7sus4(♭9) and is then released slightly by C♯7(♭9). 08:57 Tension of ♭9 continues and motif 1 enters. 09:04 ♭9 interval was resolved by moving down the root but tritone relation still exists. 09:11 The root is moved down again and diminished chord is formed. 09:14 Motif 2 in diminished chord form enters with motif 1 filled in between. 09:21 This structure is repeated but moves up 1 semitone. 09:28 Fragmented theme 1 enters and keeps ascending. 09:44 Variation of motif 2 as a transition to A flat major. 09:48 Variation of motif 1 in A flat, modulates to B, and finally to D major. 10:12 While melody keeps ascending, bass line descends in whole-tone until back in A flat. 10:24 A short bridge with motif 1 structure in A flat. 10:27 The most epic phrase with combination of 2 motifs and chromatically descending melody. 10:44 Theme 2.a in B major, and then moves to G, E flat, C, and finally B flat + D with bitonality. 11:29 Modified motif 2 as a transition. 11:36 Theme 1 in D minor repeated, but with accompany in A major creating a peculiar effect. 12:10 Section closed by motif 1.
RECAPITULATION 12:28 Theme 2 in D, with slightly different chord progression and in bright color. 13:01 Motif 2 in A major with ascending bass line as a transition to the next climax. 13:13 Theme 2 in D again, but this time is played magnificently. 13:34 Variation of theme 2.b' in D with descending bass line. 13:40 Motif 1 with tremolo diminished chord as a bridge connecting 2 sections.
CODA 14:00 Theme 3.a in D, but syncopated, moves up until in A flat major. 14:19 Theme 3.b in D but in a sense of triplet swing, also syncopated. 14:33 Motif 1 as a bridge connecting the final passage. 14:38 Cadenza-like coda with chromatic motif 2 in D. (This part only appears in S.158) 14:50 Theme 1 in D, again embellished with lots of flat sixth (B flat). 15:02 With rhythmic structure of motif 1, whole-tone chords descend down to F sharp major. 15:12 A vi-IV-ii-I cadence with consonant motif 1 in D major as finale.Teaser - DBCQM2022-10-15 | The teaser of Orchestra version of Dante Sonata by Liszt youtu.be/mlAuf9omHXg
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Compared to a gamer, I prefer to be called a music creator. Although I know that music videos gain fewer views, I still always make myself do everything perfectly, both in music itself and in video editing, and stop until they’re flawless. Just like David Hilbert’s goal in mathematics, he wanted to provide secure foundations for all mathematics, i. e., a formulation of all mathematics with completeness, consistency, and decidability. However, Kurt Friedrich Gödel proved that the goal is impossible in 1931. A consistent system of axioms can’t prove all truths, neither can it demonstrate its consistency. Together with Paul Joseph Cohen’s discovery, examples of undecidable statements were found. Hence, the reality is incomplete, inconsistent, and undecidable at the same time. Inspired by Liszt Ferencz, I also think that music can express every thought. In order to remind myself, I started this musical project. Originally, I named it Formulation of Truth, changing it to Axiomata Veritatis (Axioms of the truth) in the end. The content is a suite of piano solo roughly 20 minutes with 3 movements, and they are named directly after the antonyms of the 3 main goals from Hilbert’s program: Incompleteness, Inconsistency, and Undecidability. I’m not good enough at playing piano, but with the help of computer, I can still express my musical thoughts and share them with you. Meanwhile I also hope I can play the instrument with improved technique in the future and play my own piece. Thank you for watching.