Piano - Late
Intermediate, Advanced
SKU: OT.21124
Composed by Maayan Tal. 7
etudes for piano.
Classical. Score. OR-TAV
Music Publications
#21124. Published by
OR-TAV Music Publications
(OT.21124).
ISBN
9789655050981. 8.27 x
11.69
inches.
Perpetuum
Mobile, meaning perpetual
motioni, is a Latin term
that describes an
impossible situation in
which a substance has
infinite energy. This
situation is impossible
because it violates the
first and second laws of
Newton.
But it is
possible in music.
Imagine a musical piece
that is a continuous
stream of notes. These
are exactly the etudes in
this album. They do not
stop, they are always in
motion and they can be
played continuously.
Etudes are solo
pieces, purposed to help
the musician practice his
technique. In this album,
each etude is designed to
practice another
technique.
In
addition, the etudes in
this album are arranged
according to the circle
of fifths - each etude
ends in a key which is
dominant to the beginning
of the next etude, even
the last etude to the
first one, and so on and
so forth. This further
emphasizes the infinite
mobility of the music in
this piece.
Once you
enter the loop, you can't
get out of it. All the
etudes start in a minor
key, as a symbol of the
sadness of the matter,
and end in a major key,
to represent the hope, a
false hope, that perhaps
the next etude will take
you out of the loop.
This album is a
three-year-long project,
in which I gathered ideas
from the environment in
which I live, from the
people in it and from
their thoughts, from life
that continues all the
time, and the music that
will never stop.
Maayan Tal, 17, is a
young Israeli musician,
pianist and composer.
Perpetuum mobile
