La Nuit de Noël
I thought it would be fun to start composing pieces in the style of composers, artists and genres that I enjoy.
The motivation for this is both education and laziness:
- Education because I'll learn a lot about the music I'm imitating
- Laziness because it means I don't have to expend quite as much creative energy to come up wiht something wholly original.
It's really just another form of Constrained Writing. With an idea to start simple in my imitation, I picked Erik Satie's three Gymnopédies.
The result is a piece that, to me, seems to fit a quiet, snowy night in the cramped, cobblestoned streets of somewhere like Victorian England.
I think it's slightly too diatonic or consonant compared to Satie's Gymnopédies, but I really liked the whimsical and satisfying conclusion. Particularly at this time of year.
So I present La Nuit de Noël, an offering of muted festivity.
Merry Christmas 🎄