Uplifting Piano Duet

[winsto7]

Tell me this is not the most uplifting thing you've listened to today, I dare you. It's called Fire Within by Jennifer Thomas.

[perfect_pitch]

No offense, but it's rather tame, uninspiring and it's pretty much the same 8 bar chord progression done over and over with slight changes. Their duet is based so much off the arpeggiated section that it becomes tedious for me. They could have omitted a lot of the repeats and made it 3 minutes long and it might be a little less annoying.

I thought it was rather lackluster.

[winsto7]

To each their own I guess, but isn't that what classical is lol. Repeating chord progressions.

[perfect_pitch]

To each their own I guess, but isn't that what classical is lol. Repeating chord progressions.

No... even the Classical Sonatas moved from key to key in just the Exposition alone. Then you had all hell let loose in the development sections.

[nightwindsonata]

To each their own I guess, but isn't that what classical is lol. Repeating chord progressions.

Classical is structurally very complex. A chord progression will be repeated once, maybe twice within a classical sonata. There's often repetition of motives (short melodic phrases) and elaboration on the thematic material, but there is very rarely a repeated chord progression. The one example of this would be a theme and variations, in which a composer will rewrite the same 16 or so bars of music over and over again, but even these usually contain lots of variety and interest. If anything, the common pitfall in classical music is that there's not enough repetition, and not enough logic to progress from one idea to another.