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But I want the harmonica... : Australian post-1970 solo piano works.

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Elegy and toccata : for piano [eScore] / Colin Spiers.

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Score [ePDF]	Elegy and toccata : for piano [eScore] / Colin Spiers. 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (28p. -- A4 (portrait)) Published by Australian Music Centre — 2019	Not for loan	$35.45	Add to cart
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CD	But I want the harmonica... : Australian post-1970 solo piano works. 1 CD (64 min.) Published by Vox Australis — 1998 [VAST023-2] Library shelf no. CD 471	Available for loan	$POA

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Work Overview

This work demonstrates the composer's early interest in virtuosic piano writing. The style is a mixture of modernism and post romanticism, with the music notable for its rich chordal textures in the Elegy and its percussive writing (reminiscent of Bartók and Prokofiev).

Work Details

Year: 1980

Instrumentation: Piano.

Duration: 15 min.

Difficulty: Advanced — Approximately LMus level

Dedication note: To my mother.

First performance: by Colin Spiers — Aug 81. University of Southern Queensland

Revised 2019.

Winner of 2nd Prize, Sydney Savage Club Composition Competition (1984).