Etudes

for piano (2019)

Duration ca. 12'
pno

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Etudes for piano (2019 Concept Lab Edition)

1. Line with fragments
2. Arpeggiated patterns with a chord progression
3. Rhapsodic lines
4. Repeated notes and fragments with pentatonic melodies
5. Fragmented chord progression, fragmented melody
6. Rhythmic pattern with melodic fragments

Program Note

These etudes are basically performance composition exercises that I am writing to develop my technique further. I began them in the summer of 2018 and finished this edition in the summer of 2019 while on retreat in New Mexico. In the etudes written thus far I explored a concept of “abstract realism” in which I use more conventional sounding gestures or material in abstract and fragmented ways, with or without any sort of arc, resolution, or completed phrases.

Performances

Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Downtown Music at Grace Presents
Barbara Podgurski, piano
Grace Church
White Plains, New York

World Premiere: December 8, 2019
Concept Lab IX
Barbara Podgurski, piano
Rockwood Music Hall, Stage 3
New York, New York