Small Ensemble Piano - Level 4 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.890708
Composed by John Pitts. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score and parts. 24 pages. Intensely Pleasant Music #3424703. Published by Intensely Pleasant Music (A0.890708).
Experiencing High Volumes (2014) triet 6 minutes
Composed for the Severnside Composers Alliance’s second Three is the Magic Number concerts of contemporary piano triets at the Lantern, Colston Hall, Bristol in 2014, performed by Milena Zhivotovskaya, Rob Broomfield and John Pitts.
This is pleasant, relaxing armchair music, which doesn’t actually get particularly loud. I have Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909) to thank for a motif that recurs through the piece – a short section of his Gran Vals, which you may recognise. I have omitted the last note of the original melody, which is actually an octave down from a more familiar version you may know. Before this motif made its way into this piece I had considered a title along the lines of Cycle of Thirds for harmonic reasons which may be obvious. But I put that idea permanently on hold after trying to get through to a utilities company. In retrospect, I should have ensured that the end looped neatly back to the beginning (which sadly it doesn’t quite), so that I could attempt to sell a recording of this piece to businesses for their call waiting music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4MDdZpWQNA
