It’s been difficult to sit down and write anything over Christmas, but I have finished drafting the 5th serial miniature for piano. One to go now to complete the set! This one came from studying the introduction to Schoenberg’s Variations for Orchestra (Op 31). In this he uses two versions of the tone row, PO …
This miniature came very quickly… eventually! I wanted to write something using the intervals that are contained in the tone row as well as the notes themselves. However I really struggled to find the time to spend any quality time thinking about how it might work. Eventually the imminence of my next lesson forced me …
This little miniature has been hard fought. Even though you would never think that if you saw the sketches. Paltry few! But it has taken over a month to get his little beaut out! And I was not especially happy with it either. I had the theme for most of the 5 weeks, but just …
After last week’s lesson I have made some slight revisions to the first serial miniature for piano. Pat pointed out some things about the registers that I had used and about some of the intervals being bare and ugly , so I have tried to remedy that. But, only slight revisions 🙂 Here’s the new …