Preludes for Piano (1991-)
A Suite of 22 Preludes (more on their way). Just a note about the Acrobat scores to Preludes 1-5. They were done with a very primitive scoring program I used to use on the Amiga. They're here until I can get them re-set professionally. They're legible, just not great looking...
Prelude 1: An invention. MIDI File for Prelude 1
Prelude 1 Acrobat Score
Prelude 2: A Scarlattiesque rip.
MIDI File for Prelude 2
Prelude 2 Acrobat Score
Prelude 3: A blitz of notes in two voices.
MIDI File for Prelude 3
Prelude 3 Acrobat Score
Prelude 4: A three part canon; the material foundation of my Symphony.
MIDI File for Prelude 4
Prelude 4 Acrobat Score
Prelude 5: A commentary on the quiet Scarlatti.
MIDI File for Prelude 5
Prelude 5 Acrobat Score
Prelude 6: A 3 minute piano composition with counterpoint and funky rhythms galore.
MIDI File for Prelude 6
Here's a few comments (translated by my friend Vassily) from members of the Russian audience at a concert by Svetlana Kalinnikova in Noginsk
(outside of Moscow) after her premiere of my Prelude #6 in 1993:
"... The premier of J. Harrington piece - a real sensation! This expressive and dramatic piece is not contradicted to the music of
Skryabin and Rachmaninov sounded in the second part of concert. Quite the reverse, it is close to them in spirit without respect to a stylistic difference."
"...To tell the truth, I had not high opinion to American school of composition. But this short work caused me to change my views: master's made, it is a
dramatic and spiritual too. I don't know why, but I feel analogy with Taneyev's works."
"... The perforamce by Svetlana Kalinnikova of the modern American colleague, to my mind, is followed by the spirit of author and it made response in listeners. The success of modern music in our society is unpredictable."
Prelude 6 Acrobat Score
Prelude 7: A 2 1/2 minute blues meets Scarlatti extragaganza. Premier Performance by Katie Hug, October 28, Pro Football Hall of Fame
Auditorium, Canton Ohio.
MIDI File for Prelude 7
Prelude 7 Acrobat Score
Preludes 8,10 and 11 begin a series of piano pieces written for the accomplished amateur. Prelude 8: A 2 1/2 minute exercise in piano brutalism. Jerry Lee Lewis meets Galina Ustvolskaya!
MIDI File for Prelude 8
Prelude 8 Acrobat Score
Prelude 9
MIDI File for Prelude 9: A 1 minute descent into Lisztian frenzy!
Prelude 10
MIDI File for Prelude 10 (1997)
Prelude 11
MIDI File for Prelude 11 (1997)
Prelude 12: Another visit to hack rock and roll pianism warped into Shostakovichian mayhem.
MIDI File for Piano Prelude 12 (1998)
Prelude 13: Wild and woolly ride through Salsa. Is that the Mission Impossible Theme Song mangled? Nah... It couldn't be!
MIDI File for Piano Prelude 13 (1998)
Prelude 14:
Prelude 15: An homage to Elton John and other rock and roll piano pounders. Be sure to turn it up loud!
MIDI File for Piano Prelude 15 (1998)
Prelude 16:Explosive non-stop pounding with a Beethoveny twist. Big big Ragtime mayhem.
MIDI File for Piano Prelude 16 (1998)
Prelude 17
MIDI File for Piano Prelude17 (1998)
Prelude 18
MIDI File for Piano Prelude18 (1998)
Prelude 19
MIDI File for Piano Prelude19 (1998)
Prelude 20
MIDI File for Piano Prelude20 (1998)
Prelude 21
MIDI File for Piano Prelude21 (1998)
Prelude 22
MIDI File for Piano Prelude22 (1998)
Performances:
Tyson Deaton performs Preludes 1-8 July 26, 1997, Marion, IL
Svetlana Kalinnikova in Noginsk (outside of Moscow) Prelude #6 in November 1993
Katie Hug, Prelude #7, October 28, Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton, Ohio
Posted by jeff at February 21, 2004 02:29 PM