#31 Usurpation (on a slow trill) written to commemorate my colleague Marty Boykan's 70th birthday, and it quotes two passages from his second piano sonata.
#32 Boogie Ninths (on ninths) probably one of the hardest ones. This is from the Bridge CD in an auto-generated YouTube video.
#33 Sliding Scales (scales) for Marilyn Nonken
Marilyn Nonken's recording on Albany.
#34 Chorale Fantasy (on an embedded melody) a kind of hide-and-seek piece where the "melody" isn't always at the top, and is notated in larger noteheads.
#35 Luceole (rising seconds and thirds) for Amy Briggs. The title means "fireflies" in Italian, which were copious at the MacDowell Colony when I was writing it.
#36 Purple (on a chord — Amy's favorite) for Amy Briggs. This is the first 'tude with metric modulations.
#37 Taking the Fifths (on fifths) for Amy Briggs. This is one of my personal favorites, which makes one of us.
This is a live performance in 2009 by Gregory de Turck.
This is a performance by Emily Chapman in 2010.
This is Amy's recording on Bridge.
#38 Silent But Deadly (pianissimo) to Shehan B. Dissanayake (whose name has the same acronym). The title was Amy's idea.
#39 Sixth Appeal (sixths)
#40 Strident (stride piano) for Amy Briggs. Thus did genre become fair game as the subject of a 'tude. We were having heat advisories when I was writing this piece, thus I imagined I was writing it in New Orleans. Which makes no sense, because stride is a New York style.
#34 Chorale Fantasy (on an embedded melody) a kind of hide-and-seek piece where the "melody" isn't always at the top, and is notated in larger noteheads.
#35 Luceole (rising seconds and thirds) for Amy Briggs. The title means "fireflies" in Italian, which were copious at the MacDowell Colony when I was writing it.
#36 Purple (on a chord — Amy's favorite) for Amy Briggs. This is the first 'tude with metric modulations.
#37 Taking the Fifths (on fifths) for Amy Briggs. This is one of my personal favorites, which makes one of us.
This is a live performance in 2009 by Gregory de Turck.
This is a performance by Emily Chapman in 2010.
This is Amy's recording on Bridge.
#38 Silent But Deadly (pianissimo) to Shehan B. Dissanayake (whose name has the same acronym). The title was Amy's idea.
#39 Sixth Appeal (sixths)
#40 Strident (stride piano) for Amy Briggs. Thus did genre become fair game as the subject of a 'tude. We were having heat advisories when I was writing this piece, thus I imagined I was writing it in New Orleans. Which makes no sense, because stride is a New York style.
