this was supposed to be for a very cold environment, but i got carried away with the soft piano plugin

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Key Signature: E minor
Time Signature: 3/4 and 4/4
Tempo: mostly, Andantino
Difficulty: Advanced

third waltz of the series, it depicts the intricate shape and vibrant bluish-violet hue of the butterfly pea otherwise known here as Telang flower, its a flowering vine native to my country in parts of ternate island, but people cultivate them everywhere here beacuse of their dyeing property.

thought process: i first encounter this flower from my college years. there was this house close to my campus that has this trellised fence with this viney flower plant growing on it, the hue strikes me as so jarring the first time i see it. so i asked the caretaker which happens to be closeby and he said the plant called "telang", and he also gave me a bunch of the dried flower, he said to boil it and make it into a tea. so i did, when i got home boiled it and just to be honest, the taste is just not for me (it got this herbal earthy tone to it). but the color tho, its the most vibrat bluis-violet ive ever seen from an organic dye, looks almost artificial.

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Flower Waltz, Butterfly Pea, Op.9 no.3


Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival". He has been regarded in his homeland as the father of Czech music. Internationally he is best known for his 1866 opera The Bartered Bride and for the symphonic cycle Má vlast ("My Fatherland"), which portrays the history, legends and landscape of the composer's native Bohemia. It contains the famous symphonic poem "Vltava", also popularly known by its German name "Die Moldau" (in English, "The Moldau").

All but a handful of Smetana's compositions before his departure for Gothenburg are piano works. Some of these early pieces have been dismissed by music historian Harold Schonberg as "bombastic virtuoso rhetoric derived from Liszt". Under Proksch, however, Smetana acquired more polish, as revealed in works such as the G minor Sonata of 1846 and the E-flat Polka of the same year. The set of Six Characteristic Pieces of 1848 was dedicated to Liszt, who described it as "the most outstanding, finely felt and finely finished pieces that have recently come to my note." In this period Smetana planned a cycle of so-called "album leaves", short pieces in every major and minor key, after the manner of Chopin's Preludes. The project became somewhat disorganised; in the pieces completed, some keys are repeated while others are unrepresented. After Smetana's final return from Gothenburg, when he committed himself primarily to the development of Czech opera, he wrote nothing for the piano for 13 years.
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Chanson, in A minor

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