Twelve Meditations

Description

Twelve Meditations

Piano solo
2018
Moderately difficult

1. The Mystic’s Prayer
2. On a Common Tone
3. In Lydian Mode
4. In Dorian Mode
5. Morning Meditation
6. Quasi Chitarra
7. Evening Meditation
8. On a Style
9. Night Meditation
10. Dialogue
11. Autumn Meditation
12. Noël

Program Note

These Twelve Meditations could be also described as preludes, for most are instrumental in conception, and several employ a keyboard style that recalls earlier eras. Each considers a single idea or clearly audible musical process. Each presents a particular musical situation: a tone or chord; a mode; a technical situation like crossed hands (No. 10); a keyboard style (No. 8). Nos. 7 and 9 treat the same melodic idea in very different settings. Most are one-part forms lasting at most three or four minutes. Quiet usually prevails. I hope the collection provides a moment in practice, performance or worship that is relaxed, sonorous and meditative—in musical sense, at least.

–DET, January, 2019