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WARNING: This is a long piece of work so don't hit play unless you have 11 minutes to waste! This is also an old live recording done by an amateur sound guy. There are crowd noises and all that stuff. There is a small hitch in the recording around 7:30 - sorry for that.
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Journey is a 3-part Suite for Solo Piano that I started writing in 2000 and finished in 2001. It began as a soundtrack to a great little short film that a friend of mine was making about a woman's journey through her life - past, present and future. Unfortunately, the film never got finished, but the music is here!
When the film fell through, I had only about 1/3 of the suite finished, and then I set it aside and didn't think about it for awhile. A couple of months later, I was fortunate enough to take composition lessons at a local university and this suite became my project to finish. A requirement of the lessons was that at the end of each semester, all composition students had to perform the piece(s) they had worked on. So this performance is the end of semester recital - December 2001.
I must admit to being a procrastinator, and as such, I finished writing parts of this in the car on the way to the recital hall. Most of the second movement I had not played before. haha...I was sight reading my own music. So there are some flubs and goofs in here, due to both my unfamiliarity with the music and my nervousness. But that's all part of the charm of these live recordings, right?
ok, about the music. 3 parts and each part is loosely based on a classic musical form. I was combining my new-age composing tendencies with the theory I was learning in my classes.
I. Present (sonatina) an expirement with the circle of 5ths and key changes
II. Past (theme and variations) an exercise in using my left hand differently
III. Future (rondo) an experiment in time signature types and changes
I had every intention of re-recording these pieces, but I just haven't had time so I'm posting this for your enjoyment. I've played around with the idea of adding orchestration - not quite sure if that's going to happen. I kind of like them as solo piano.
Anyway, take a break from work or tv or kids or life. Sit back, relax for 11 minutes, close your eyes and listen. Let me take you on a journey.
PS - I do have pdf files of the sheet music for these pieces if anyone is interested. Just send me a note.
PPS - the song art is affectionately borrowed from Worth1000.com and is called "Unknown Road".
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Journey is a 3-part Suite for Solo Piano that I started writing in 2000 and finished in 2001. It began as a soundtrack to a great little short film that a friend of mine was making about a woman's journey through her life - past, present and future. Unfortunately, the film never got finished, but the music is here!
When the film fell through, I had only about 1/3 of the suite finished, and then I set it aside and didn't think about it for awhile. A couple of months later, I was fortunate enough to take composition lessons at a local university and this suite became my project to finish. A requirement of the lessons was that at the end of each semester, all composition students had to perform the piece(s) they had worked on. So this performance is the end of semester recital - December 2001.
I must admit to being a procrastinator, and as such, I finished writing parts of this in the car on the way to the recital hall. Most of the second movement I had not played before. haha...I was sight reading my own music. So there are some flubs and goofs in here, due to both my unfamiliarity with the music and my nervousness. But that's all part of the charm of these live recordings, right?
ok, about the music. 3 parts and each part is loosely based on a classic musical form. I was combining my new-age composing tendencies with the theory I was learning in my classes.
I. Present (sonatina) an expirement with the circle of 5ths and key changes
II. Past (theme and variations) an exercise in using my left hand differently
III. Future (rondo) an experiment in time signature types and changes
I had every intention of re-recording these pieces, but I just haven't had time so I'm posting this for your enjoyment. I've played around with the idea of adding orchestration - not quite sure if that's going to happen. I kind of like them as solo piano.
Anyway, take a break from work or tv or kids or life. Sit back, relax for 11 minutes, close your eyes and listen. Let me take you on a journey.
PS - I do have pdf files of the sheet music for these pieces if anyone is interested. Just send me a note.
PPS - the song art is affectionately borrowed from Worth1000.com and is called "Unknown Road".
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Feter
well the opening as always shows your own character
open and pleasant toward the future where were alot
of words you said about through the lines .specialy
with the minro change at the end of first movment ..
goin back to past seems so much of a sigh with dark
and more pale ..but you fuse all that with some soft
chords in major which explain part of you.you are
sayin a word to the past and its so nice to be heard
here .push your left hand with diffrent timming was
so berilliant ... within time you let this piece
progress into a higher phase its like a whole chapter
in the past there .then back to the samew color you
started with ..then the rondo the promises you gave
to the future .lots of confidance lot of waves there
some minor chords change this more a color than any
other feeling maybe just a serious look and then this
beat with all the stride in the chords at the left
hand ...and a stand up with the last chord...
I m aplauses and clapping with both hands Bravo ...
what awonderfull project and sonata ..free character
and honest live playin even if you were nervous ...!
thank you so very much for the gem !!!!!