Prelude and Etude
I have been thinking about influences a lot lately and things
that really shaped my musical thinking. These two solo piano pieces
are written with old school harmony
and piano technique, though they're not entirely nostalgic
throwbacks. The Prelude, for example, puts a twist on the sort
of pedal tones we know and love at the end of Bach's work for
keyboard or organ by sustaining a single harmony for the second
half of the piece, and doubling the melody in octaves to give
the effect of organ registration. The Etude is, well, exactly that.
In both pieces you can hear harmonic progressions from many
well known piano composers --- a lot of Ravel, some Scriabin
and Chopin, even a dash of Rachmaninoff.
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