3 preludes to missing the point
Doug Opel
About this work:
'3 preludes to missing the point' is my contribution to a very ambitious project created by my friend Nicola Melville. For this piece, Nikki stated a preference for music that would clearly reflect a popular American style or styles. In that spirit, I chose three popular styles for 3 short character pieces: a funk feel couched in a reduced theme and variations form for 'It gets Complicated': an improvisational keyboard style with a Southern Baptist Chruch feel for 'Gospel', and for 'Eine Kinda Bachmusick, pt.2': a dark and smoky, jaz-style variation on portions of J.S. Bach's Fugue No.22 in B-flat minor, BWV867 from 'The Well-Tempered Clavier, Bk 1'.
This work is funded by the American Composers Forum's Jerome Composers Commissioning Program.
Version: piano
Year composed: 2006
Duration: 00:08:30
Ensemble type: Keyboard
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