Format : Score
SKU: HL.14007553
12.0x16.5 inches.
An ennead is a large composition in nine sections. Historical examples include an important early Latin epic, the discourses of the neoplatonic philosopher Plotinus, and the once popular poem by Edward Young, first published in 1745. This last was re-issued in 1802, in a sumptuous edition illustrated with more than five hundred engravings by William Blake, whose own Vala is also an ennead. Young's poem was called Night Thoughts, and I had originally intended to use the same title for my own set of quite independent nocturne-like pieces. Finally, I decided on the name Sonatina, as being a more accurate description of a work in which the interrelatedness of the sections placed it somewhere between the character of a suite and that of a set of variations, as well as emphasizing its artistic descent from the type of irregular sonata pioneered by such composers as Alkan and Busoni. -Justin Connolly.
SKU: SU.80101497
This volume collects together a variety of unrelated short piano pieces written between 2015 and 2021 that had not appeared in print elsewhere: Nocturne (2016), A Little Bit of Normal (2020), Musette (2015), Near (Cantus IV) (2016), Chorales for Howard (2021), Twilight Poems (2021), Preludio gioioso (2016), For Eva-Maria Houben (2021), Albumleaves (2015), Albumleaf for Dick and Judy Wagner (2016), and Impromptus Nos. 1 & 2 (2021)Piano Duration: 60’ Composed: 2015–2021 Published by: Zimbel Press.
