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Topic: Suite No. 1 for Piano (six short pieces) by Derek Andrews (me)  (Read 1913 times)

Offline Derek

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Hi all, here's my first Suite for Piano

https://www.personal.psu.edu/dga112/2006september9suite1.mp3
https://www.personal.psu.edu/dga112/2006september9suite2.mp3
https://www.personal.psu.edu/dga112/2006september9suite3.mp3
https://www.personal.psu.edu/dga112/2006september9suite4.mp3
https://www.personal.psu.edu/dga112/2006september9suite5.mp3
https://www.personal.psu.edu/dga112/2006september9suite6.mp3

These pieces are all totally improvised, and they cover a wide range of styles that I have experimented with, including atonal! I don't think I've shown my atonal side on this site before.

A guide to my suite:

1) A demonic sounding funeral march
2) A contrapuntal conversation of echoes
3) Insistent, Ecstatic.
4) Urgent, rhythmic, rousing
5) Atonal, contemplative
6) Romantic, longing.

Any and all comments appreciated.