Funeral improvisation

[ronde_des_sylphes]

The intention is to have specific depictions and musical symbolism, some of which are illustrated with the video (I guess the bells are fairly obvious!)

I've used the first four notes of the Dies Irae on regular occasions as a motivic cell.

[quantum]

Very effective!  The bell symbolism moves back and forth from the background to foreground.  Rich with varied imagery and does well to refer back to the overall theme.  The Dies Irae and bells work to tie the ideas together. 

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Thanks! I think in some way this and the Autumn improvisation, which you also commented on, were precursors to the Halloween improvisation, where I think a lot of the ideas coalesced together into a larger, more polished whole.

[skyrabinov]

Suitably elegiac. I feel like shifting voices down by a semitone does lend itself to a sense of sorrow and despair, slowly sinking down. Was reminded of Chopin's Prelude in E minor and Faure's Elegie in C minor for this reason, not as though you were quoting, just tangentially.

[ronde_des_sylphes]

Suitably elegiac. I feel like shifting voices down by a semitone does lend itself to a sense of sorrow and despair, slowly sinking down.

Thanks: I like the use of falling progressions in general and the internal voice shifting around 2.33 was quite effective imo.