Eight Short Piano Pieces

These piano pieces were played on my senior composition recital by Charlie Berggren.

Program Notes: In the second semester of my sophomore year, I decided it would be fun and a challenge to try to write one short piano piece every week. I kept this up for about eight weeks, after which I assembled the pieces into one complete collection. I was influenced greatly by a couple of piano pieces on which I had worked, including "Three Fantastic Dances" by Shostakovich, and "Vision Fugitive" by Prokofiev. In this work, I also tried to explore different styles of writing. For example, I tried to capture the neoclassical style in some of them, and I used the gypsy scale and the whole-tone scale in others. I even based one of them almost completely on perfect fifths. The last two short pieces are my favorite ones, because I think they point in the direction that some of my future compositions might take.

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Music

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• piano
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[Iamsofashionable]

I enjoy the second one the most very creative and expresses alot of things good job :)

[kosaendre]

very nice!

[mrminion123654]

This was really awesome. I liked the variety of emotions you expressed.

[scottturner1994]

Great job, I enjoyed these a lot.