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ScoreThe Composers’ Series, Volume 5 : Piano solos / Esther Kahn ; recorded and edited by Jeanell Carrigan.
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23 piano solos from 1894 to 1949 are represented in this collection and includes biographical notes about the composer, editorial and performance notes about each work, the scores and a recording by Jeanell Carrigan of all works in the hard copy.
As one of he first music therapists in Australia, Esther Kahn's
music was very successful in the treatment of her patients and as
music therapy was fundamentally important to her as a composer it
is possible to understand why her compositions have been written
in the style in which they exist. The piano works are very
formally structured - mostly in a basic ternary form with some of
the waltzes in rondo form. They stay within a tonal structure of
tonic and dominant keys with the contrasting sections almost
always in a dominant or relative major/minor key. The phrases are
always of a symmetrical length - either two, four or eight bar
structures. As Esther's pieces were written to be played by a
pianist of her, or her students' technical standard, they are of
a medium to challenging level of difficulty without pandering to
pedagogical compromises.
Level of difficulty - intermediate to advanced
Contents note: Improvisata -- Birthday Thoughts -- Intermezzo no. 1 (Morceau de ballet) op. 25 -- Xmastide -- Coronation Waltz -- Day Dreams - a Waltz -- Valse de fées (Morceau de salon) -- Intermezzo no. 2 (Echo) op. 30 -- Sweet Idleness entr’acte -- Hush Song -- Barcarolle -- En avant. Marche Militaire -- Powder and Patches Gavotte -- Valse Brillantè in E Major -- The Watermill -- Spring Song -- Memories of Youth (Minnows ; A half holiday ; Hide and Seek ; Columbine ; A Mozart Impression) -- ‘Midst Heather and Wattle -- Slumberland – Josef Kretschmann (arr. Esther Kahn).
Includes biographical notes about the composer and notes on the music, written by the editor, and a CD recording of the works.
ISMN: 979 0 720227 40 5
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