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The Shape of Water
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Water Lilies
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1025143 Composed by Kirk O'Riordan.…
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1025143 Composed by Kirk O'Riordan. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 12 pages. Kirk O'Riordan #4357415. Published by Kirk O'Riordan (A0.1025143). Water Lilies for Solo Piano is the second in a series of Water Lilies pieces, which also includes versions for chamber winds and orchestra. Each version is based on the same melodic idea; in each piece this idea is developed using different compositional procedures. The result is a series of noticeably related but distinct pieces. The idea for these pieces comes from my impressions of an exhibit of Monet's Water Lilies at the Musée de L’Orangerie in Paris. The room that these magnificent works are displayed in is in the shape of an oval; and when sitting in the middle of the room one has the distinct impression that one is in the middle of Monet's pond.My Water Lilies are not necessarily an attempt to reproduce each painting in sound; rather, they represent the attempt to reproduce the feeling of being surrounded by these images, which from far away seem perfectly clear and photographic but up close are rather blurry and repetitive. Indeed, Monet's genius lies in his ability to make his audience look upon his art from afar, taking in the whole view at once rather than focusing on the details of its construction. This series of pieces attempts to recreate this effect in sound.Water Lilies was composed for pianist Holly Roadfeldt. Her recording of the work appears on the CD Strange Flowers (Ravello Records).
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Icicles of Spring
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1373867 Composed by Gareth Jones. 2…
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1373867 Composed by Gareth Jones. 21st Century,Contemporary,New Age. Score. 6 pages. Gareth Jones #958341. Published by Gareth Jones (A0.1373867). The sun sits elevated in the blue sky of spring, warming the pure, white snow. As it begins to melt, a few translucent icicles gradually start to drip. This continues until more thawing icicles join in, and small drips turn into steady trickles. Pools of water form, steadily migrating together and flowing across the landscape into streams. The water progresses towards undulating, cascading torrents and eventually eases into gentle rivers of slow-moving water. This piece is shaped by delicate, melodic phrasing and requires a sensitive touch to emulate the small droplets. The use of the sustain pedal will help soften the harmonies to replicate the hues of a watercolour painting.
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Icicles of Spring
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Gareth Jones
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Elisa's Theme - The Shape of Water
Piano solo
By Alexandre Desplat. Arranged by Drew Collier. Solo Part. 3 pages. Published by Drew …
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By Alexandre Desplat. Arranged by Drew Collier. Solo Part. 3 pages. Published by Drew Collier
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Elisa's Theme - The Shape of Water
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Drew Collier
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The Devil's Millhopper for piano solo
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.958462 Composed by Joseph Dillon Fo…
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.958462 Composed by Joseph Dillon Ford. 20th Century,Contemporary. Score. 5 pages. David Warin Solomons2 #3691515. Published by David Warin Solomons2 (A0.958462). The Devil's Millhopper is north Florida's most famous sinkhole, a 120-foot-deep bowl-shaped concavity formed in soluble limestone by the erosive action of water over millennia. This geological formation got its name because fossilized shark teeth, marine shells, and the shattered remains of extinct land animals have all been discovered in its depths, as if these hapless creatures, trapped in a gigantic hopper, had served as grist for the Evil One's mill. In this fiendishly difficult short piece, I have attempted to evoke not only the erosive forces of water and earth but also the buzzing of mosquitoes and other insects that invariably accompany those hardy enough to attempt the 232-step descent on a hot, humid summer day. Tonal ambiguity is intentionally maintained until just before the movement ends with a gentle chromatic cascade, by which point the terra firma of G Major is firmly established.
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Joseph Dillon Ford
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David Warin Solomons2
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Underwater Kiss - The Shape of Water
Piano solo
By Alexandre Desplat. Arranged by Drew Collier. Solo Part. 3 pages. Published by Drew …
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By Alexandre Desplat. Arranged by Drew Collier. Solo Part. 3 pages. Published by Drew Collier
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Underwater Kiss - The Shape of Water
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Drew Collier
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The Shape Of Water
Piano solo
Composed by Alexandre Desplat (1961-). Arranged by Roxana Belibou. Contemporary. Score…
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Composed by Alexandre Desplat (1961-). Arranged by Roxana Belibou. Contemporary. Score. 4 pages. Roxana E Belibou #3618115. Published by Roxana E Belibou
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The Shape Of Water
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Roxana E Belibou
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The Shape Of Water
Piano solo
By Alexandre Desplat. Arranged by Miles Keyland. 2 pages. Published by Miles Keyland
By Alexandre Desplat. Arranged by Miles Keyland. 2 pages. Published by Miles Keyland
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The Shape Of Water
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EdithShape Of Water, The
Piano solo
Composed by Alexandre Michel Gerard Desplat. Arranged by Piano Palt. Contemporary. S…
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Composed by Alexandre Michel Gerard Desplat. Arranged by Piano Palt. Contemporary. Score. 2 pages. Piano Palt #5361471. Published by Piano Palt
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Alexandre Desplat: The Shape Of Water - piano solo
Piano solo
Instantly printable sheet music by Alexandre Desplat for piano solo of MEDIUM skill level.…
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Instantly printable sheet music by Alexandre Desplat for piano solo of MEDIUM skill level. / film/tv,movies
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The Shape of Water Piano Suite by Jacob's Piano - Piano Solo
Piano solo
Performed by: Jacob's Piano: The Shape of Water Piano Suite - (The Shape of Water - E…
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Performed by: Jacob's Piano: The Shape of Water Piano Suite - (The Shape of Water - Elisa's Theme) Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Instrumental Solo, instruments: Piano; 5 pages -- Movie/TV~~Soundtrack~~Solo Instrumental
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The Shape of Water from The Shape of Water - Piano Solo
Piano solo
Alexandre Desplat - The Shape of Water Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet m…
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Alexandre Desplat - The Shape of Water Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Instrumental Solo, instruments: Piano; 4 pages -- Movie/TV~~Soundtrack
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Elisa's Theme from The Shape of Water - Piano Solo
Piano solo
Alexandre Desplat - Elisa's Theme - from The Shape of Water Digital Sheetmusic - inst…
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Alexandre Desplat - Elisa's Theme - from The Shape of Water Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Instrumental Solo, instruments: Piano; 3 pages -- Movie/TV~~Soundtrack
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Overflow of Love from The Shape of Water - Piano Solo
Piano solo
Sheet Music for Overflow Of Love from The Shape of Water arranged for Instrumental Solo in…
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Sheet Music for Overflow Of Love from The Shape of Water arranged for Instrumental Solo in C Major. Digital sheet music from Musicnotes. --
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Elisa and Zelda from The Shape of Water - Piano Solo
Piano solo
Sheet Music for Elisa And Zelda from The Shape of Water arranged for Instrumental Solo in …
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Sheet Music for Elisa And Zelda from The Shape of Water arranged for Instrumental Solo in C Major. Digital sheet music from Musicnotes. --
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The Shape of Water by Christian Pearl - Piano Solo
Piano solo
Performed by: Christian Pearl: The Shape of Water Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloada…
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Performed by: Christian Pearl: The Shape of Water Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Instrumental Solo, instruments: Piano; 2 pages -- Movie/TV~~Solo Instrumental~~Soundtrack
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L'Enchantement des eaux quand ils pleurent
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1230196 Composed by André Luiz M…
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1230196 Composed by André Luiz Machado. Classical. Score. 15 pages. André Luiz Machado #825923. Published by André Luiz Machado (A0.1230196). Inspired by the representation of water in piano works by Liszt and Debussy, L 'Enchantement des eaux quand ils pleurent explores the stunning watery world and symbolic elements that surround the shapes and gestures of water. A potent sense of ritual emerges from the fusion of a neo-impressionist aesthetic and Brazilian rhythms.
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L'Enchantement des eaux quand ils pleurent
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SheetMusicPlus
Elisa's Theme by DJA28 - Piano Solo
Piano solo
Performed by: DJA28: Elisa's Theme - (from The Shape of Water) Digital Sheetmusic - i…
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Performed by: DJA28: Elisa's Theme - (from The Shape of Water) Digital Sheetmusic - instantly downloadable sheet music plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Instrumental Solo, instruments: Piano; 3 pages -- Movie/TV~~Solo Instrumental~~Soundtrack
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Hydra
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.507392 Composed by Heather Cattanach. 20th Ce…
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Piano Solo - Digital Download SKU: A0.507392 Composed by Heather Cattanach. 20th Century,Children,Contemporary,Instructional. Score. 5 pages. Published by Heather Cattanach (A0.507392). Hydra is the biggest of the 88 Constellations. Ptolemy, the Greek astronomer catalogued this constellation in the second century. Two Greek legends mention Hydra. The first tells how Heracles (Hercules) fought and killed the nine-headed monstrous predatory snake. The second relates the story of Corvus (the crow) who was commanded to bring water to Apollo, but was distracted, and blamed the water snake for his being late in returning to Apollo with the cup (Crater). In honour of Hydra’s extensive span across the sky, all 88 keys are used. Thus much of the material is chromatic (and also palindromic) but in bars 9, 19 and 29, you can see the approximate shape of the constellation if you join the dots of the noteheads. I have chosen to eschew the use of 8va and 8vb signs, instead opting to show the expanse of all the notes on the keyboard as they appear on the staff. It is easy to play these high and low leger line notes, knowing that they always begin (or end) at the top or bottom of the piano keyboard (i.e. the highest C and the lowest A). From “88 Constellations†a collection by Heather Cattanach featuring one piece of piano music for each of the 88 constellations (to match the number of keys on a standard piano). Intermediate Piano Solo. Performance Time 1 1/2 minutes. 4 pages. (General Instructional, Modern, 21st Century, Repertoire, Recital).
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Hydra
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SheetMusicPlus
Scarborough Fair
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.847962 By Simon And Garfunkel. By T…
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Piano Solo - Level 5 - Digital Download SKU: A0.847962 By Simon And Garfunkel. By Traditional English Ballad. Arranged by Timothy Stapay. Baroque,Contest,Festival,Film/TV,Folk,Traditional. Score. 6 pages. Timothy Stapay #454662. Published by Timothy Stapay (A0.847962). Scarborough Fair is a traditional English ballad. A famous version was recorded by Simon and Garfunkel. The lyrics of Scarborough Fair appear to have something in common with a Scottish ballad titled The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad #2, collected by Francis James Child, which has been traced as far back as 1670. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task (For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform (I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand). Dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century. A number of older versions refer to locations other than Scarborough Fair, including Wittingham Fair, Cape Ann, twixt Berwik and Lyne, etc. Many versions do not mention a place name and are often generically titled (The Lovers' Tasks, My Father Gave Me an Acre of Land. The references to the traditional English fair, Scarborough Fair and the refrain parsley, sage, rosemary, and thyme date to 19th-century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, which has a similar plot. O, where are you going? To Scarborough fair, Savoury sage, rosemary, and thyme; Remember me to a lass who lives there, For once she was a true love of mine. And tell her to make me a cambric shirt, Savoury sage, rosemary, and thyme, Without any seam or needlework, And then she shall be a true love of mine. And tell her to wash it in yonder dry well, Savoury sage, rosemary, and thyme, Where no water sprung, nor a drop of rain fell, And then she shall be a true love of mine..
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Rhaeadr
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1033108 Composed by Joanna (née …
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Piano Solo - Level 4 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1033108 Composed by Joanna (née Josephine) Bates. Arranged by N/A. 20th Century,Classical,Contemporary,Romantic Period. Score. 5 pages. Joanna Bates #6080051. Published by Joanna Bates (A0.1033108). Programme Notes - Solo Piano Work In 2006, I was living on the hills which form the border between England and Wales; this is deemed to be an area of special scientific interest where the many wonders of Nature abound. Rhaeadr means 'waterfall' in the Welsh language and my piece is a sound picture of the myriad forms, shapes, stillnesses and polar dynamic forces that waterfalls can evoke; from thundering torrents and sunlit pools to droplets and sprays that spirit into being, white and ghostly mists before our very eyes. The music begins with a ‘trickling’ movement from the top of the waterfall and makes it’s way down, crashing into rocks, swerving around them and almost coming to a halt in a shallow, sunlit pool which lies, temporarily, in a plateau. Then, finding a crevice to squeeze through, the water continues it’s unrelenting descent - finally reaching the bottom of the hill and coming to rest in calm liquidity. My thanks go to the pianist, Marija Vrskova at the FAMES studio in Macedonia where Rhaeadr was recorded under my remote direction and mixed and mastered by Laurent Köpitz and his commendable team. Joanna Bates - June 2020Duration is 3:25 and is suitable for intermediate to advanced pianists.Associations with nature, rivers, flowing, water - anything of this sort, Rhaeadr is a perfect match!
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SheetMusicPlus
Five Stars General from The Shape of Water - Piano Solo
Piano solo
Alexandre Desplat - Five Stars General Digital Sheetmusic plus an interactive, downloadabl…
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Alexandre Desplat - Five Stars General Digital Sheetmusic plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Instrumental Solo, instruments: Piano; 2 pages -- Movie/TV~~Soundtrack
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Underwater Kiss from The Shape of Water - Piano Solo
Piano solo
Alexandre Desplat - Underwater Kiss Digital Sheetmusic plus an interactive, downloadable d…
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Alexandre Desplat - Underwater Kiss Digital Sheetmusic plus an interactive, downloadable digital sheet music file, scoring: Instrumental Solo, instruments: Piano; 2 pages -- Soundtrack~~Movie/TV
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Chasing Storm Clouds
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1254880 Composed by Stephanie Webst…
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - Digital Download SKU: A0.1254880 Composed by Stephanie Webster-Cheng. 21st Century,Contemporary. Score. 5 pages. Stephanie Webster-Cheng #848467. Published by Stephanie Webster-Cheng (A0.1254880). I love watching a storm roll in over Lake Michigan. The clouds, a watercolor painting of blues and greys, stretch and shape-shift as they slowly advance toward the shore. Chasing Storm Clouds depicts the dramatic beauty of these clouds through a soaring right hand melody over a steady arpeggiated left hand. Like the morphing clouds, Section B introduces the melody with new Major harmonies before eventually returning to the minor key in an abbreviated A1 section, marked meno mosso.
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Chasing Storm Clouds
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Stephanie Webster-Cheng
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SheetMusicPlus
Three Chromicons for piano solo
Piano solo
Piano Solo - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Joseph Dillon For…
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Piano Solo - Advanced Intermediate - Digital Download Composed by Joseph Dillon Ford. 21st Century, Contemporary Classical, Impressionistic. Score. 22 pages. Published by David Warin Solomons
The pdf file contains the original score (in letter format) followed by the somewhat larger copy with dedication by the composer and fingerings by Valentin Bogolubov who premiered the 3 Chromicons.<br> <br> The sound sample is the live performance.<br> <br> The Three Chromicons were premiered by pianist Valentin Bogolubov at the Société de concerts de St-Bruno, Saint-Bruno, Quebec, Canada, on 27 January 2007. Bogolubov's adventurous, technically demanding program, which also featured the works of Alexander Scriabin and Jean Chatillon, was accompanied by video animation of numerous works of art, four of which were created by the composer (among them, the Chromicon No. 3).<br> <br> Ford explains the significance of these unique scores:<br> <br> "In both my earliest chromicons, which I had begun to create by the 1980s, and in those I continue to make today, color is the element that links what is seen to what is heard. Unlike composer Alexander Scriabin, who may have been a true synaesthete as the result of a rare neurological condition enabling him actually to hear colors, my approach to color music has been by way of analogy. Although the tones in a musical scale and the colors of a prism both result from specific vibratory frequencies, scales can be replicated in various octaves while there is no comparable transposition observable in the case of the spectrum. However, the analogy between pitch and hue is implicit in the term "chromatic scale" (the Greek chrôma signifies "color"), and on that basis it is possible to equate the twelve tones of Western music with the hues on a twelvefold color wheel: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-violet, violet, and red-violet."<br> <br> "By placing the pitch names of the chromatic scale in a separate band around the periphery of a such color wheel, much like the numbers on the face of a clock, and by rotating the central color wheel, it is possible for any given pitch to be aligned and associated with any hue. Such an easily constructed device, which I have dubbed the "chromonomicon," is the key necessary to decipher the musical meaning of my chromicons. The chromicon can be thought of as a calligraphic text in which each discrete area of color is a separate letter."<br> <br> "Although there are literally millions of possible colors, all of them can be categorized as one of the twelve hues shown on the chromonomicon. Instead of being written from left to right or from right to left, the color-letters in a chromicon are arranged concentrically. The shapes of the individual letters, usually painted in watercolor and "illuminated" with metallic paints, colored pencils, and other media, are the result of each artist's creative meditation. The personal meaning of the chromiconic text as a whole emerges during and after this meditation, and may be expressed by a conventional title or accompanying commentary."<br> <br> "Now, anyone wishing to realize a chromicon is at liberty to follow any path—straight or curvilinear—from the centermost letter to the periphery, constructing a cantus (melody) by notating the musical pitches associated with each contiguous color-letter encountered along the way. The cantus thereafter serves as the structural basis of a new, freely composed work. The individual pitches in the cantus may be moved to any octave, and may be repeated any number of times before proceeding to the next pitch in the sequence. Customarily, once the final tone of the cantus is reached, the entire melody is heard in reverse (retrograde), resulting in a palindrome. That palindrome is itself subject to varied repetition, so that in formal terms, each realization of a chromicon amounts to a 'mirror' theme with variations."<br> <br> "Chromicon No. 3 travels even further back in collective human memory to the eighteenth century. For all its contemporary melodic and harmonic inflections, the style is pervasively contrapuntal, summoning to mind the polyphonic keyboard textures of Bach and Handel. It eschews the worldly strife and diversions mirrored in the first two chromicons, maintaining a dignified, highly stylized manner throughout, but with its unexpected final cadence on D, there seems to be a fleeting intimation of transcendence."<br> <br> Video of Chromicon III<br> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHMw-vzZlGE
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Joseph Dillon Ford
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Three Chromicons for piano solo
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David Warin Solomons
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