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Dreamweaving: Five concert pieces exploring the sounds of modern chords
Contributor(s): Brandman, Margaret Susan (Composer)
ISBN: 0949683191     ISBN-13: 9780949683199
Publisher: Jazzem Music
OUR PRICE:   $16.63  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: November 2018
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- Music | Printed Music - Piano & Keyboard Repertoire
Physical Information: 0.05" H x 8.27" W x 11.69" (0.20 lbs) 26 pages
 
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This set of five tuneful chord etudes for piano, has been composed to demonstrate the sounds of the seven standard four-note chords . They also demonstrate how modal scales can be used together with these chords. Each piece also explores skills in piano technique.

  • Each piece demonstrates the sounds of a standard four-note chord -

    • Dominant 7th (Weaving)

    • Major 7th (Beaming)

    • Diminished 7th (Dreaming)

    • Major 6th and Minor 6th (Gliding)

    • Minor 7th and Half-Diminished 7th chords (Gleaming)

    • Weaving
      This piece uses the dominant 7th chord, in progressions moving around the Cycle of Fifths, and the occasional chromatic movement. The featured mode is the Mixolydian Mode.

      Beaming
      The distinctive bright character of this piece is achieved by the use of the Major 7th chords, on the 1st, and 4th degrees of the scale. The modal or scalic section demonstrates how the Major Scale ( Ionian Mode) and the Lydian Mode can be used of these chords.

      Dreaming
      This piece demonstrates how one diminished 7th chord shape can be used as a link between four seemingly unrelated keys. The chord used is C diminished 7th. When inverted the chord can also be seen as, E Flat diminished 7th, F sharp diminished 7th and A diminished 7th chords. The keys used in the piece are B Flat Major, D Flat Major, E Major, G Minor and finishing in the original B Flat Major key. The tune uses a broken left hand figure, and makes use of the other chords covered in the previous two compositions.

      Gliding
      This work uses both Major 6th and Minor 7th chords, which are in fact inversions of one another. The title comes form the gliding movement in the right hand melody line, which use triplets to glide through the D sixth chord. The rhythmic features of the tune include eighth note triplets followed by either straight eighths. The scalic section uses Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian and Aeolian modes.

      Gleaming
      The featured chords in this work are the Minor 6th and the Half-diminished seventh chords. The piece has a modern feel to it, and could be accompanied by a light eighth-note rock rhythm. Features of the work include syncopation. It is a through-composed piece, in four main sections. Which begin at measures (bars) 1, 11, 22, and 30 respectively.

      These pieces have been recorded and are available on Margaret Brandman's Sonorities CD.

Contributor Bio(s): Brandman, Margaret Susan: - "Margaret Brandman's career in music as composer, pianist, recording artist, music educator, arranger and writer on music education spans more than 45 years. She has combined her compositional interests with her interest in accelerated learning techniques for music. Margaret has composed a large range of pieces for a variety of instruments and voice which have been released on several albums produced by Parma Recordings USA on the Navona and Ansonica labels. Her concert works for orchestra, chamber ensembles, instrumental duets, choir, solo voice, and solo piano, and receive both live performances and international airplay on a regular basis. In particular her works are frequently programmed on ABC Classic FM and Fine Music (Australia). In September 2017, the Prague Mixed Chamber Choir and soloists, presented Margaret's 'Cosmic Wheel of the Zodiac', song cycle of 12 songs - one for each sign of the Zodiac, set to lyrics by Benita Rainer, in concert in the concert hall at the Czech Music Museum in Prague. The choir and soloists also recorded this work for an album on the Navona Records label, released in May 2018. The Australian premiere of the choral versions of the songs, along with new works by Margaret Brandman, were performed at a concert at the ABC centre in Sydney in August 2018 by the acclaimed choir 'Coro Austral' and several soloists performing alongside the composer on piano. Margaret Brandman is also writer and publisher of many music education materials in her contemporary series of education materials, which range from books for junior students, to text books for high school and tertiary study. Her catalogue contains over 100 published books and compositions. She continues to compose and perform her original works and to travel internationally for recording sessions."