Instrumental Solo Composition of the Day, Installment 19:
"Piano Piece (1986)"
I wrote "Piano Piece (1986)" while I was a composition student of the late Martin Boykan at Brandeis University, two years into my program towards a PhD in Composition. I recall that Professor Boykan rather liked this composition once it was done, and he could play it beautifully. In addition to being a formidable composer, he was also a virtuosic pianist.
This work is intended both as an homage to Brahms and to Schoenberg, the rhythms being strongly influenced by those of Brahms, and the musical language being ruled by Schoenberg's twelve-tone system. Schoenberg loved the music of Brahms, and wrote about in his text, "Brahms, the Progressive," as in musically progressive, forward thinking.
"Piano Piece (1986)" also shows the influence of composers such as the music of Aaron Copland, and that of my previous composition teacher, the late Arthur Berger, in its obsession with the registration of pitches.
Follow the next URL to view a scrolling score music video of "Piano Piece (1986)" on YouTube which I am re-releasing today using better audio and video software than I had available to me in 2013, the last time I created a scrolling score; I just deleted that YouTube music video and replaced it with this one.
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Follow the next URL to view a watermarked PDF score of "Piano Piece (1986)" on my website.
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Thank you for your time and attention and, if you are a pianist, I dare you to perform this piano piece!
Stanley M. Hoffman, PhD
Biography Published in Grove Music Online (The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, Oxford University Press)
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