As Children Hear: Six Nursery Rhymes for Piano
Theodore Jander
About this work: My four-and-a-half-year-old daughter, Ellie, and my nineteen-month-old son, Evan, when he sits long enough, both enjoy listening to me read from their Mother Goose books as well as many other stories. Ellie and Evan have brought me a great deal of compositional inspiration over the past four and a half years. They have opened up a whole new way of perceiving the world, especially music. Hence, the title, As Children Hear. The main theme of these character pieces is that each is based on a literal interpretation derived from the entire text, a portion of the text or from the nursery rhyme’s history.
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Year composed: 2008
Duration: 00:09:00
Ensemble type: Keyboard:Piano
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