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Karl Henning · July 04, 2015, 03:10:54 PM

The sixth.

Karl Henning · July 04, 2015, 04:58:23 PM

With the seventh, the project is one-third done:

Cato · July 05, 2015, 04:34:45 AM

For those who think that "wittiness" in music is an incomprehensible concept, Karl has hereby proven that opinion wrong!

Yes, very nice! The pianist should enjoy performing these as much as the audience should enjoy hearing them!

Note the clever Webernian structures throughout, especially in the third piece.

Karl Henning · July 05, 2015, 04:45:28 AM

Thank you!

Karl Henning · July 05, 2015, 07:49:55 AM

No. 8 just done.

Karl Henning · July 05, 2015, 10:19:58 AM

No. 9

Karl Henning · July 05, 2015, 10:20:17 AM

And 10.

Karl Henning · July 05, 2015, 04:44:35 PM

Finally finished the last movement of the wee suite for vc/pf.

Cato · July 06, 2015, 03:15:45 AM

Again, sly and witty pieces! Number 8, however, by using the sevenths and ninths in a "white-key mode" of sorts, conveys an idea of the listener needing to resolve the prayer after the music has stopped.

And the Sparrows in the left hand reminded me that major seconds (e.g. E-F#, F#-G#) are considered consonant in Lithuanian folk music.

Karl Henning · July 06, 2015, 03:28:14 AM

Yes! Playing around with non-triadic white-key harmonies . . . not sure I absolutely kept true to it, but my idea was not to repeat the same voicing of any of the chords.

Karl Henning · July 06, 2015, 05:05:48 AM

And in compiling that refresh, I find that I somehow neglected to post the Op.4 № 1 . . .

Karl Henning · July 06, 2015, 02:12:03 PM

Don't know why I left it out before:

Karl Henning · July 07, 2015, 02:55:37 AM

All right, got a little organized . . . started mapping out "the back 10" of the Op.131. And on this morning's bus, started composing № 11, The Street Musician.

Karl Henning · July 07, 2015, 04:56:09 PM

No. 11

Karl Henning · July 07, 2015, 05:12:53 PM

And no. 12.

Cato · July 08, 2015, 09:55:49 AM

QuoteVisions fugitives de nouveau, Op.131 (pf solo)
№ 1: One Leaf
№ 2: Versuch eines Milonga
№ 3: Beneath the Clear Sky
№ 4: That Tickles!
№ 5: Stephen Goes to California
№ 6: Kay's Blue Crabs
№ 7: Questionable Insistence
№ 8: Morning Prayer
№ 9: Bunny Keeping Still
№ 10: Gamboling Squirrels
№ 11: The Street Musician
№ 12: The Shade of an Oak

These are marvelous miniatures: I wrote to Karl that e.g. #12 shows that dissonances, when handled in the right way, as they are here, can be exquisite and produce an exquisite expressivity.

Karl Henning · July 08, 2015, 10:03:07 AM

Thanks! My blood is still up . . . keen to finish out the set (perhaps over the weekend), and equally keen not to paint myself into a corner

Karl Henning · July 08, 2015, 02:45:26 PM

Out of sequence! #15

Karl Henning · July 08, 2015, 03:20:26 PM

#13

Karl Henning · July 08, 2015, 03:40:53 PM

And the one in between, no. 14: