Product Description
Audacious Binary Forms for pianist playing one or two
pianos, won Australias most prestigious piano composition competition the Jean
Bogan Prize for Piano Composition 2016.
The world premiere was performed by Michael Kieran Harvey.
He is considered by many as being one of Australias greatest living concert
pianists. Michael specializes in performing world premieres of compositions by
Australian composers. He is also a prolific composer of avant-garde music.
ABSTRACT FROM THE GENERAL DIRECTIONS
Audacious Binary
Forms for piano is in a fractured binary form. Two
types of structures exist; lettered structures, which are experimental
structures, and explore the sonorities of the piano, and numbered structures,
which are more traditional structures. A structure may be a single page or more
than one page. Each page in a structure is to be played sequentially. For
example, with structure C, consisting of three pages, C1, C2, C3, each page is
played sequentially in numerical order, C1, C2, C3.
EXPERIMENTAL
STRUCTURES
The structures A, B, C, D, E, F, G, Percussion, CADENZA, and CODA are
experimental.
TRADITIONAL
STRUCTURES
The structures 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6, are traditional.
PREPARING
THE SCORE FOR PERFORMANCE
There are four different options for a performance.
MINIMALIST
OPTION
The 13 cards cut from the CUTOUT page are shuffled. Card 4 Rag (1,2) is
removed. The 12 cards are placed face
down. One card is revealed representing the structure that is to be performed.
A member of the audience can be invited to shuffle the cards.
STOCHASTIC
OPTION
An audience member or members can be invited to shuffle all the pages of the
score. The resultant random sequence of pages becomes the whole score for the
performance.
PERFORMERS
OPTION
The performer prepares the structures according to his musical tastes. All of
the experimental structures should be performed. The performer is free to play
none, some, or all of the traditional structures. Please note that each
structure remains an independent structure and is played sequentially. For
example, structure C, consisting of three pages would be played C1, C2, C3 in
that order.
PERFORMER/COMPOSER
OPTION
Months before the concert the performer can contact me at paulcopeland1@bigpond.com,
to discuss the performance, and to work out an ideal performance structure for
the work, taking into consideration the venue, expected size of audience, size
of auditorium, music program, and if two pianos will be available.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING SHEET MUSIC SIZE
Please note that the score should be printed on
separate pages (the notated pages), not back to back. Ideally the score should
be printed on A3 pages in colour. However the score can still be printed in
grayscale.
The sheet music file is approximately 15Mb because the score is in full color.
BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
Paul Copeland is an award-winning multi-genre
composer, graphic artist, programmer, teacher, and author, based in his home
city of Melbourne. His compositional styles range from neo-classical, jazz,
ragtime, and musical theatre to electronic, avant-garde, post-avant-garde, and
experimental music.
Born in 1947, Copeland grew up an only child in a
musical household. His mother was a talented singer, his father an accomplished
amateur pianist, composer of popular music, and internationally renowned
travelling telepathist known as Argus The Boy Prophet. Copeland's musical
studies commenced at the age of 16 when he began studying piano, and a year
later, he enrolled at the Melba Conserv
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