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| Elwood's Piano Works | Mins | Description & comments |
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78:00 | A compilation of solo piano stuff, all composed on computer so don't blame me if you break your fingers attempting to play them. Note that not all the pieces below are available on the CD because of lack of space, so I alter the contents every now and then to include new pieces and remove older ones. Download the whole Albumwrapped album free from MegaUpload. |
| Op. | Year | Mins | Description of individual pieces on CD (Click on titles for more info.) | |
| Opus Zero | 0 | 1980 | 3:20 | Played on a friend's piano way back in 1980, and interrupted by him just when I was getting into a nice flow of inspiration. I've converted it to MIDI and added a coda, and it now sounds much better. (Watch for for the deliberate "wrong notes" towards the end - I just can't help being subversive!) |
| March of the Killer Ants | 2b | 1979 | 6:22 | A MIDI reworking of my 1979 attempt at a string quartet - now it sounds like some mad prehistoric march when played on piano (or rather two pianos - or maybe one piano with two pianists, I don't know) The title came to me when I realised it reminded me of the music in a Tom & Jerry cartoon when the ants are marching single file towards Tom's picnic basket. |
| Pavanne for Anne | 1983 | 4:40 | A MIDI piano reworking of my Interface band piece, which I also incorporated into my symphony. One of my best tunes, so I thought why not make the most of it? | Piano Sonata #1 |
33 | 2002 | 3:28 5:10 2:15 2:11 |
First music I made for 16 years (an atonal MIDI piano sonata, originally in 3 movements) - I extended it in May 2003 and added a "scherzo" movement to fill it out a bit. Seriously strange music. Play it through a few times to get the feel of it - it sounds all wrong at first. You have to train your ears to accept the odd intervals. You should notice the third movement is comprised almost entirely of sequences from the first two movements - some even played backwards. |
| Piano Fantasy #1 | 34 | 2002 | 8:30 | An impossible piano piece - I was still getting used to using the Cakewalk software, and got a bit carried away at the end of this one! (Updated Jan 2006) |
| The Herringbone Rag | 36a | 2002 | 7:33 | Another new Cakewalk piano piece - my best yet I reckon. This is possibly even playable by a sufficiently capable pianist, unlike my previous attempts which were beyond the capabilities of any human being! |
| Piano Fantasy #2 "Duelling Pianos" |
40 | 2003 | 10:15 | A schizophrenic piano duet that swings from Stockhausen to Saint-Saens via Stravinsky and Satie. It starts off quite slowly and tentatively, but builds up to a big finish. |
| Fearless Asymmetry | 41 | 2003 | 6:30 | A whacky pseudo-minimalist piano piece that lives up to its title. There's barely a 4/4 bar in the whole piece, even though it's very rhythmic. There's also a well-known tune hidden in the piece which only becomes revealed right at the end. |
| The Moebius Strip Polka | 42 | 2003 | 8:00 | (Not on the album) OK piano fans, get your fingers (and heads) round this one - A totally palindromic piece alternating 7/16 and 3/8, which "flips round" in the middle! |
| Piano Fantasy #3 | 44a | 2003 | 9:15 | This piece seemed to grow from some bits and pieces I had left over, and I'm glad it did, as it seems to work nicely. A very strange fast-moving piece with an unexpectedly abrupt ending. I used the same MIDI file for the first movement of my Concerto for Synthesiser, but here it's just a solo piano. |
| Organ Sonata 2nd movement |
47 | Jul 04 | 5:10 | This is actually the 2nd movement of my organ sonata, but it sounds just as good on a piano and works as a separate piece in its own right, so I thought I'd include it here. |
| Piano Sonata #2 | 49 | Sep 04 | 01:16 11:18 |
(Not on the album) A second piano sonata in two highly unconventional movements. Play it and find out why! |
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