SKU: HL.14018641

SKU: BT.STACLI390

SKU: HL.14018643

SKU: HL.14018642

SKU: PR.110418250

ISBN 9781491133859. UPC: 680160683345. 9 x 12 inches.

This intriguing 11-minute work builds on alternations between declamatory unmetered phrases (beginning as “sonorous, rubato, with great aplomb and resonance”) and strictly motoric rhythmic sections, developing in waves of increasing drama and intensity. Commissioned by the Naumburg Foundation for pianist Xiaohui Yang’s Carnegie Hall premiere.
Ballade is a one-movement work of approximately 11 minutes, divided into three main parts that are played without significant break.Ballade alternates sections where the performer is invited to apply great interpretive freedom, especially on the temporal plane, with contrasting sections that are quite precise and rhythmic. Although carefully notated, the “freer” sections (often marked rubato) certainly allude at times to the kind of repertoire that is familiar to most concert pianists, doing so not by way of quotation but by the type of expressivity, affect, and even passagework. Thus, the performer should think of the score as a “blueprint,” where the many descriptive words I have inserted throughout the score (ranging from sonorous, rubato, with great aplomb and resonance as the work begins, to with greater motion, in a series of ever-expanding “waves” later on) are intended to act as triggers for one’s sense of imagination and fantasy to take off and bring the music alive! An inscription in the score urges the pianist to play fearlessly and exuberantly, but also tenderly!

SKU: ST.H336

ISBN 9790220210181.

Playing hands together, simple intervals and chords, scale and broken-chord patterns, accidentals, more contrasts of articulation and expression, key signatures of one flat and up to three sharps, 12 pieces for grade two.

SKU: PR.140401280

UPC: 680160682942. 9 x 12 inches.

My Souvenir Chestaareminders of the pastaais an ongoing collection of short, contrasting studies ranging in duration from about one to seven minutes. They celebrate pianists whose artistry I respect and whose friendships I relish. In addition, each segment of the full set is individually dedicated to young colleagues and friends with whom I work. Their collective energy, knowledge and wit continue to foster my own love for the art I revere. The emotional nature of each piece changes extensively andawhether they dress in garb that is comical, angry, jazz-pop inflected, aacademica or sedateathey are all musics instigated by the sounds of my personal remembrances. Book 2 was commissioned by Mr. Barry Snyder of New York City, New York. Additional financial support was provided by the School of Music at Stetson University, Timothy Peter, Dean.

SKU: ET.PNO63

ISBN 9790207012135.

Four pairs of words separated by an hyphen suggest a relation between each pair (contrast, refinement, conclusion, etc.).
I. Klang - Bild [sound - image]: linear and pointed moments contrasted with a fan-shaped sound.
II. Stille - Nacht [silent - night]: Resonating, soft harmonics create the illusion of silence. The title of this section is a literary reference to the famous Christmas carol, Silent Night.
III. Spinne - Netz [spider - net]: Through the spider’s activity (part one), the net is constructed (part two). The existing differences in the net's fine threads are infinitesimal.
IV. Wald - Licht [forest - light]: Light penetrates sporadically through the branches. And a meadow where there is nothing but light (sounding “A).
Jost Meier, May 2010, Basle, Switzerland.

SKU: HL.14018644