For such a short piece of music I am astounded at how long this has taken me! I think I finished the fifth one about four months ago. This one though is more complex than the other six. I took my 12 x 12 matrix of sequences derived from the original tone row (the same …
I wrote this as part of a series which I was going to try to market as children’s play time music. It is obviously inspired by Harry Potter books, which were a major influence on my children’s (and my!) life. I like this. There is nothing special about it from a compositional point of view. …
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 …