Piano Study No.1 (Drehmer, Earl Richard)

Contents 1 Performances 1.1 Videos 1.2 Synthesized/MIDI 2 Sheet Music 2.1 Scores 3 General Information 4 Navigation etc.

Performances

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• Videos (1)
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Videos

 Synthesized Performance
*#888147 - 94.38MB - 4:18 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 2×⇩ - MP4 - Pseudotonal

MP4 file (audio/video)
Pseudotonal (2023/12/13)

Publisher Info. Earl Richard Drehmer, 2012. Performers Finale 2008 Copyright Creative Commons Zero 1.0 [tag/del] Misc. Notes score performed by Finale, recorded by Audacity, video created with Windows Movie Maker Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

Synthesized/MIDI

 Synthesized Performance
*#888146 - 4.36MB - 3:49 -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 3×⇩ - MP3 - Pseudotonal

MP3 file (audio)
Pseudotonal (2023/12/13)

Publisher Info. Earl Richard Drehmer, 2012. Performers Finale 2008 Copyright Creative Commons Zero 1.0 [tag/del] Misc. Notes score performed by Finale and recorded by Audacity Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

Sheet Music

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• Parts (0)
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Scores

 Complete Score
*#888145 - 1.01MB, 8 pp. -  0.0/10 2 4 6 8 10 (-) - !N/!N/!N - 28×⇩ - Pseudotonal

PDF typeset by composer
Pseudotonal (2023/12/13)

Publisher. Info. Earl Richard Drehmer, 2012. Copyright Creative Commons Zero 1.0 [tag/del] Misc. Notes notated in Finale Purchase Javascript is required for this feature.

General Information

Navigation etc.

Charles Ives was a great piano improviser. His Sonatas and especially his studies have the effect of being free and improvisatory. I was inspired by them and included some phrases and concepts from them here. They are not direct quotes since I don't have the scores of the studies. I also quoted Chopin. The study is mostly about prime numbers and these feature prominently in tempi and meter. The phrases "Charles Edward Ives" and "Bringing in the Sheaves" are hidden here in Morse code. On the "v" in both phrases, the Victory motive from the 2nd World War is used, which is of course the opening motive of Beethoven's 5th symphony so he is also quoted. Here is what Wikipedia says about this: BBC ... assistant news editor Douglas Ritchie ... suggested an audible V using its Morse code rhythm (three dots and a dash). Having the same rhythm, the opening bars of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony was then used as the call-sign by the BBC in its foreign language programmes to occupied Europe for the rest of the war. The irony that they were composed by a German was not lost on many of the audience or for the more musically educated that it was "Fate knocking on the door" of the Third Reich.