Filipino composer (and popular score video maker) Patrick Sarcilla’s “Peachicato Polka” is a dance piece in the neoromantic style, composed in March of 2022 and revised during the same month in 2023. The Polka, a parodic namesake of Léo Delibes’s “Pizzicato Polka”, is structured in ABACABA form, with the recapitulation further developed to include a coda. The piece is dedicated to “Kira Omori”, the alias of a Virtual Youtuber. Sarcilla’s preface for the piece is as thus: “Dear Kira, I know that this piece just came out as a playful response to your interest in classical music when I watched one of your livestreams in the hopes of helping you if you want any recommendations, but nonetheless I still cannot believe that this will be one of the fastest pieces I can ever attempt to write down in my composing hobby. (I say, hobby, I am not confident to make a living out of it, but it's alright with me, don't worry.) I tried my best to figure out how can I [sic] make the product not too melancholic nor too humorous. I feel contented [sic] with this one, and I hope you do too. By the way, the title of the piece is a humoristic portmanteau between "peach" and "pizzicato", a technique commonly used in string instruments played by plucking the strings to the assigned note. Since the piece is composed for piano, however, the equivalent technique for said instrument, the "staccato" is applied here. It is also a tribute to another piece, "Pizzicato Polka", by a French composer named Leo Delibes that he composed for his ballet "Sylvia," to which, I will admit, has influenced me in a helpful way, and therefore has some similarities to the one I made. Written in A minor, the piece begins with an octave introduction, the motif provided (C - E - A - B - F) making its entrance for the A section, the chromatic passages demanding a moderate level of finger dexterity with its staccato markings. In contrast, the repeating B section in A major is mellow in character, and no staccato is used; however the mood turns somewhat dramatic on its way to the recapitulation of the A section. This time, there are noticeable changes made towards the coda, in which the motif appears once again before ending the piece in the opposite ends of the piano.” Date: 2022 Dedicatee: Kira Omori Performer: Meliton Soupelin on piano Note: This channel does not own the score, and it is used for non-commercial purposes. The score in the video was obtained from the composer and uploaded with the composer’s permission. The audio is owned by this channel, however. Composer’s channel: https://www.youtube.com/@thenameisgsarciOFFICIAL ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgQuYoI7ITA