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Reflections : Seven tone poems for piano / Colin Spiers.
Library shelf no. 786.2/SPI 10 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
This collection of seven short to long solo piano pieces was written in 1981, and inspired by various excerpts from literature by the authors Jane Austen, Stephen Leacock, James Thurber, P. G. Wodehouse, Thomas Hardy, W. Somerset Maugham, and Rudyard Kipling.
Work Details
Year: 1981
Instrumentation: Piano.
Duration: 60 min.
Difficulty: Advanced — Overall the set is at an advanced level, but individual pieces range from this down to approx. 7th grade AMEB standard
Dedication note: for Helen
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:
Continuing in the style of Elegy and Toccata. These tone poems are neo-romantic in tone and explore explore textures and piano technique seen in the music of later early modernist composers such as Debussy and Prokofiev.
Subjects
- Inspired by: Literature & Poetry
- In the form/style of: Neo-Romanticism
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