Four Piano Sketches

for piano
1992-1995
18 minutes

This is a collection of four pieces composed during my years as an undergraduate and graduate student, each an experiment in a specific form of pre-compositional structuring.

The pieces may be performed individually.

i. Carillon (1994) uses John Cage’s structure of nested proportions. This piece became the basis of Motetus (1995), for carillon.

ii. untitled piano piece (1992) is based upon a non-octave scale, in a formulation which is similar to that used in more recent pieces such as Liber Pulveris (2005) for solo guitar.

iii. Homophonic Construction on notes by O. Messiaen (1994) is a quite rigorously constructed piece, in which two melodic fragments taken from a Messiaen organ composition are subjected to a systematic translation of pitch into rhythm.

iv. Pohn (1995), (“tree” in Thai), is based upon formal symmetries.

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