I Love To Tell The Story -- Chorale Etude #3 of 7 (annotated score)

-- the music starts playing at 0:53
-- to play the non-annotated version, click this link: http://www.youtube.com/user/pseudotonal?feature=mhee#p/u/11/ETWhXi0Jjqs

By Earl Richard Drehmer, Sr.
for my brother, Timothy Joel Drehmer

This score has annotations that may help explain the music. No attempt has been made to limit them to the pace of the music. If you wish to contemplate the comments an analyze the music, you may have to stop and start the video numerous times. If you cannot tolerate the long pause at the beginning, just go to where the music starts to play @ 0:53

This set of seven pieces for piano solo is based on my family members' favorite songs at the time I asked them. The first completed was my father's piece (1984) and the last was my brother Dennis's piece (2006). Dennis died shortly after he was born so I chose "In the Sweet By and By" for him. I love the idea of secretly hiding a musical idea and only revealing little by little and maybe not at all fully. J. S. Bach was the master of the chorale. He loved to weave musical tapestries around well-known hymn tunes. Lesser known for this was Charles Ives. Though Ives's purpose was not to write a chorale, he did like to weave tunes into the fabric of his music. Further, he sometimes gradually revealed it after first occluding it. These are etudes in the sense that they are studies on these techniques.

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[pseudotonal]

@nin456 Thanks for the thoughtful remarks.

[nin456]

I enjoyed this piece. It would be an absolute nightmare for anyone to play though! I liked the musical ideas, although thought the piece was a little too flashy for my liking (although a lot of people enjoy that Lizst-ian virtuosity). Wasn't sure about the ending (with its transition to tonality) - but that could just be me. I deffinitely liked the atonal sections more.