Piano Music

Bagatelle for Lydia

Jon — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:13:26 GMT

When Lydia was about five or six months old, she was working really hard at crawling. Sometimes, she would push herself up on her hands, then slide uncontrollably backwards. Occasionally, she would push forward. Mostly, though, her arms collapsed under her during the operation and she'd bump back to the floor. Still, she would work at it for hours on end.

One day at the piano, I was watching her try to crawl along the hallway. The jerky up and down motion inspired this piece. After her workout, she was sitting on my lap and banged down her hands on the keys--what else would I expect. The cluster of notes became Lydia's Chord at the end of the piece.

Prelude 1 -- MIDI

admin — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:01:45 GMT

Acoustic piano MIDI version of Prelude 1 -- sheet music

Prelude 1 -- sheet music

admin — Tue, 06 Jun 2006 01:57:53 GMT

Programmatic: a leaf dies and flutters down on an autumn breeze. The start of the flight is jerky and stacatto. As it falls, the flight smooths out until it ends in a big pile of leaves.