Piano Advanced Grades
Composers' Series, The - Volume 9 Piano Solos (Evans)
By Lindley Evans
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Lindley Evans (1895-1982)
16 piano solos, composed between 1927 and 1967. The hard copy volume includes a CD of these works.
Pianist, composer, conductor, organist, chorister, lecturer, and examiner Lindley Evans was the modern-day renaissance man who made a huge contribution to musical society in Australia during the twentieth century. Born in South Africa his family migrated to Australia when he was fifteen. He felt his own youth and inexperience was a disadvantage and so sought lessons to improve his expertise with Frank Hutchens at the New South Wales State Conservatorium of Music. One thing led to another and Lindley was soon offered many more musical opportunities amongst them adjudicating various competitions, teaching a music appreciation class at the Presbyterian Ladies College in Croydon, conducting choirs as well as a great deal of accompaniment work. By 1921 Evans was a member of the piano staff at the NSW Conservatorium.
After a very successful recital with flautist John Lemmoné Evans was asked to accompany Dame Nellie Melba and so developed a strong partnership that lasted many years.
His piano works are not numerous, and it appears that composition was just another activity that Evans was able to undertake with ease, having had no formal composition lessons.
All of the works are very tonal, mostly in ternary form and Evans favours those keys in ‘flat ‘tonalities. (Db major being commonly used.) The works were mostly written in the 1930s and 40s with only two exceptions – Holidays in Australia, 1963, and Il Cielo Sereno, 1967.
More comprehensive biographical notes are within the volume which also includes a CD of all the works.
Researched, edited and recorded by Jeanell Carrigan
Volume 9: Lindley Evans
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Rhapsody
https://youtu.be/E1q49C7UH0c -
Merrythought
https://youtu.be/xEoMNrF8i6E -
Tally ho!
https://youtu.be/nzRX9mJ4arg - Fragrance
- Berceuse for a Sleeping Sand-Baby
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Vignette
https://youtu.be/vFo2WA_G3R4 -
Lavender Time
https://youtu.be/Kw3w89lvEK4
Holiday in Australia- Surfing Bondi Beach
https://youtu.be/fhhvkOKO7hg - Bell Birds
- At the Royal Show
https://youtu.be/pvjuWYegH9o - The Coral Island
- In the Shearing Shed
https://youtu.be/F32H7VZ20fw - Kangaroos
https://youtu.be/pEXUYO0Zt4w - The Old Gum Tree
- Sailing on Sydney Harbour
https://youtu.be/zMA4zKhUP4E
- Il Cielo Sereno (Under the Fair Sky)
ISMN 9790720231488
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As part of 'The Composer's Series' many of these works have been recorded by Jeanell Carrigan on a CDs: Sea Impressions (Wirr108); Forest Magic (Wirr109)
Continual Dew
By Phillip Wilcher
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Composed 1998
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Cool Prelude
By John Martin
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Composed 2010
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Crimson Rosella - fortepiano armonica
By Ann Carr-boyd
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The melody and harmonies date back to a tiny snippet of music I wrote many years ago as a brief nostalgic waltz (which formed an interlude in a longer work) and which I have now expanded in this piece, retaining the nostalgic mood. The title is the same as the two harpsichord work and is named in honour of one of Australia’s most spectacular and beautiful birds. Composed 2018
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ISMN 9790720172811
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Cruising Drone, The
By Gina Ismene Chitty
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For piano, c4'10. Advanced level of difficulty, Grade 8+
This piece has a reflective improvisatory feel and can be described as a ‘salon style’ synthesis of a classical and jazz style. Lyrically expressive, it taps into a somewhat romantic and not overly exuberant style, with a focus on an emotional expressionism of a gentle, reflective and tranquil character.
Composed 2023
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Dance of the Ecstatic MetalBorg, The
By Gina Ismene Chitty
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For piano, c7'05. Advanced level of difficulty
The Dance of the Ecstatic MetalBorg is a slightly edgy blend of contemporary and traditional jazz music which fluctuates and switches abruptly from a driving relentless and hard-hitting attack of metallic rock music to a gentler form of traditional and almost meditative jazz music. The more typical jazz harmonies and well-worn blues runs are replaced by a sparkling riffage of cascading and extended solo runs in the upper register. The mood, which switches abruptly from the aggressive thumping in the lower register to the glitter of the virtuosic passages in the upper register, moves onwards to a genial, reflective and American jazz style which, in turn, suddenly moves into a quick Brazilian rhythm of rapid sixteenth notes.
Meshed in between these transformative passages of the hard hitting rock and Brazilian dance rhythms, are the lighter, shorter and more reflective flourishes of the older and traditional jazz music.
Composed 2023
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Dance of the Robotic Cyborg, The
By Gina Ismene Chitty
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For solo piano, c.7'05. Advanced level of difficulty. Composed 2021
Chosen for the Preliminary Round Recital in the International Piano Competition 2023 as a new Australian work.
The Dance of the Robotic Cyborg conjures the characterisation of a futuristic creature that is a combination of a living organism and machine.
This is a constantly evolving energetic piece that draws on the rhythmic and structural inflections of jazz as well as elements of a baroque contrapuntal style. A short and recurring musical motif which winds around pianistically theatrical and improvisational embellishments holds this piece together.
The piece is technically demanding that commands a sturdy contrapuntal technique, as well an ability to break into contemporary dance music rhythms of varying intensities.
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The following YouTube recordings are the shorter and modified version of this piece.
ISMN 9790673141186
Demented Demon, The
By Brennan Keats
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Solo piano, 2'37
- Grade: 8
- Genre: Neo Classical
- Date: 2010
- Tempo: Allegro e agitato, crochet equals 76. A depiction of a demented state, rather than an evil spirit. A challenge to develop both finger speed and clarity. The calmer sections of the piece have a variety of moods once more enhancing a demented effect. Has a value as an encore.
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ISMN 9790720214603
Demon Rag
By John Martin
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Composed 2010
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Demotica
By Colin Brumby
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Three movements
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Dimensions of Night
By Larry Sitsky
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$90.00
Piano solo - 10 movements. Professional level.
Composed 2014
- 1. Chant of Gatha Ushtavaiti
- 2. Ra Sails the Mesektet barque
- 3. Thoh
- 4. Mara
- 5. Sitra Achra'
- 6. Eros
- 7. Chant ceremony of the Yei gods'
- 8. Lord of the smoking mirror
- 9. The chaos of Aesoid
- 10. Devekut
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Divertimenti, Volume I
By Michael Hannan
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$20.00
Five pieces for solo piano.
These five pieces in Divertimenti Vol. I cover a range of contemporary and traditional styles.
Composed 2019
- Riverflow
- D Minor Blues
- Valse Française - audio
- Pettite Ambiance
- Mazurka
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ISMN 9790720231259$15.00 for instant PDF download
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