It is a horrible title! I almost expected a literal piano quartet when I first heard this piece. But it is still oh so lovely sounding. :D

Anyways, you are a fantastic piano player! It's great to see talented musicians on this site collaborate together! If I had real recording equipment, I'd do the same and find cool musicians to work with. O:

Nice pun by the way. :P

Piano quartets are string trios with a piano more often than not (four pianos in one place would be a bit much!).
Well, thank you! Yeah, I've been working with these three fellows for a long time, it has been great (we knew each other much before FA of course!).
Hmm, that would be awesome! I know of a pretty good company that makes excellent mini all-in-one recorders. They're called Zoom, I'm actually using one of their microphones here. Cheap and with top notch quality!

At least it's not as bad as his friend, the constipated accountant who couldn't... budget. ¬¬

Oh yeah, I've heard of those microphones. One of my old percussion instructors used one to record our end-of-rehearsal run-throughs. They are pretty nice.

And yes.. I've heard That one before. ¬¬

I guess you could say that it was... - puts on aviators. - corny. YYYYYYYYYYEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH

I love listening to all your music :)
This one seems to me almost like a roller coaster of energy.



and...

heheh. Gross...

Aw, thank you! That's awesome to read! =D
This piece has got to be one of the most exciting ones I know for this instrumentation. Once you get over the fingers plotting to assassinate you, it is great!

Don't worry, it's not as bad as the constipated accountant who couldn't budget... *facepalm*

Vincent D'Indy! I sang Madrigal for my Vocoal Jury! Love this!

Yeah, he's a super composer!
Though in my honest opinion, he could have chosen better titles for his pieces (I mean, even Madrigal isn't exactly a good title. I've sung in hundreds of madrigals, and none of them were by him!).
Thank you! We're glad you do. =D

There is no better place than A minor! It's such an easy key to play the piano in, and it can be so beautiful, that there couldn't be :3

*facedesk*

Hehe, not a fan? :P

F#, C# and B major are much simpler keys to play in!

I disagree! Mainly because I play so many things that are in A minor or C major, though I would agree that C# and B major are quite simple, D major and minor are rather nice too :3

All keys are equally beautiful!
But yeah, when I was starting out, A and C were the best.

You forgot E Flat!

E flat is pretty easy, okay, all keys are pretty easy for me, but it's a tad more complex than those as there you just have to remember to put your thumbs on the white keys and other fingers on the black ones.

Eb is the most common key for basses and baritones to sing in :3 Useless piece of trivia.

The title may make you want to say "blah", but the music itself doesn't! This piece sounds really creative, adventurous, and pleasant, as if you're flying through the clouds, then you encounter some sort of obstacle, and finally all ends happily ever after. I like this a lot, you guys played really well~

I didn't get the pun for a while... until... well...

If I had the ability to think of a better title I would totally give it, but it's a little improper to name something that isn't yours!
I think most music from before the 20^th century never really had titles... Dull, dull, dull for sure. We always give them fake titles for the fun of it.
Aw, thank you! That's actually what I thought the music described as well! A thrilling air race, then oh no! The engine stops... you got to get it fixed. You manage and win the race! But then... Porco Rosso comes and steals the money. D= (I've been watching a few of your recommendations!), but then he decides to give it to some poor kids in an orphanage, which was what you were going to do anyway, so everyone is happy.

As for the pun... well... I'm sure that it's not so bad in French.

Porco Rosso! I wouldn't mind if he swooped in out of no where and won the race.
Persepolis looks really interesting, and its on my watch list! I was away for a couple days so now I have time to watch it, if i can find it...

Neither would I, in all honesty!
It is a very good movie, I have the DVD of it, but I don't think that there's a youtube version, so...
But one other, very, very, very cool film is 'Allegro Non Troppo', it's a little like Disney's Fantasia, but much more 'indipendent', one song in particular (the Valse Triste) is absolutely beautiful. If you can find the version with the live action sequences you'll even get a barrel of laughs!

For some reason that did not sound minor to me at all. Was this movement in a different key than the title? XD

The quartet is in A minor, but yeah, this movement is in the Major key.
It's weird because this is the finale, so the quartet begins in a different mode than what it ends on! D= Concentric tonality is the fancy music-scientist word we use.

He must've used up all his inspiration for the music and then was out.. but really, just sleep on it and listen and come up with a title. To me, it speaks of the challenges of waking up with the struggle to make tea. All the energetic waves of music are about the promise of power that comes from the tea.. 1:05 before the end the protagonist imbibes the tea at last, and the rest is a celebration of the energy that courses through him or her.

I am not allowed to title some dead guy's work!
But we do have our own title to it, this movement's called the Air Race! Because.
What an interesting interpretation! I would not have thought of it in a million years. I bet the end is him having a slight bout of depression and then finally coming out the door and being rejuvenated by the morning sunlight!

I was speaking in general terms - this fellow could've slept on it. It's not too hard. <i>"Jackie Ranger and the Cup of Tea", "The Talking Lightbulb."</i> One of those two for example. <i>"Air Race"</i> might've required deeper thought..

Ack, never reply on FA after an hour of HTML..

Absolutely wonderful!

Thank you!

*chuckles at all the bad puns... wonderful rendition hun...

V.

It'll be gone in the proper description, believe me (and I'm still waiting for that!).
Thank you! We're happy with it ourselves as well, it came out great! =D