Music 207-221: A fourth little suite in fifteen sketches

Hi Everyone

I decided to once again post all 15 piano sketches in a block. Last time I posted them individually and I found it tiresome – as many probably did! This way if you want to listen to as little or as many as you like, you can. Besides, I think of all 15 pieces as belonging together somehow.

Click on a title in the first list to listen, and click on a title in the second list to download the written music if wanted.

So here is the Fourth Little Suite in Fifteen Sketches. Thanks

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1. Off to town
2. After the train has gone
3. Aspiring ballerina
4. Dingle Dell
5. Bungling juggler
6. Orange grove
7. Skipping ropes
8. Spiders
9. Pussycat chases a leaf
10. Quite frankly, Nora was in no mood to dance the foxtrot with Herbert
11. Melting ice cream in a cone
12. When the cowboy rides into town to woo Mary-Lou
13. The music box
14. Summer flowers
15. Thank God it’s Friday

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1. Off to town
2. After the train has gone
3. Aspiring ballerina
4. Dingle Dell
5. Bungling juggler
6. Orange grove
7. Skipping ropes
8. Spiders
9. Pussycat chases a leaf
10. Quite frankly, Nora was in no mood to dance the foxtrot with Herbert
11. Melting ice cream in a cone
12. When the cowboy rides into town to woo Mary-Lou
13. The music box
14. Summer flowers
15. Thank God it’s Friday

Music 206: Safe harbours

“Safe harbours” is the fifteenth and final piano piece in “A Third Little Suite in Fifteen Sketches”. As for the previous two Little Suites, the final piece is the same as the first. I do this because I think of each suite as a little journey, and to hear the first piece again is perhaps not only to greet an old friend but to see how the experience of the previous pieces somehow transforms/changes the way we listen. Be that as it may…

Thanks for listening these past 15 days.

There are two links: one to the audio file (mp3) and one to the printable written music (pdf).

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Music 205: Seventh birthday

“Seventh Birthday” is the fourteenth piano piece in “A Third Little Suite in Fifteen Sketches”.

I had no one in particular in mind, other than remembering my own 7th birthday and knowing how exciting it can be!

There are two links: one to the audio file (mp3) and one to the printable written music (pdf).

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Music 202: Carousel

Today’s piano piece is called “Carousel” and is the eleventh piece in “A Third Little Suite in Fifteen Sketches”.

The New Zealand composer, Douglas Lilburn (probably our most well-known composer), wrote an electronic work called “Carousel” that I had to teach as part of the music syllabus to 15 year-olds for about ten years. Of course, I grew to detest it! I guess this piece should have been called “Merry-go-round” instead! I sometimes have told people that “Lilburn taught me”. That’s not exactly true. Years ago, when I was a student at university and had to compose a piece of music in the university’s electronic studio, Douglas Lilburn opened the door and said “Have you finished yet? Because I want to lock up and go home”!

There are two links: one to the audio file (mp3) and one to the printable written music (pdf).

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Music 200: Ride on a camel

This is the ninth piano piece in “A Third Little Suite in Fifteen Sketches” and is called “Ride on a camel”.

I’ve never had a ride on a camel (or even a horse) but I would imagine the camel getting up from its sitting position would be like a wild ride in a theme park, let alone the side to side wonky motion of its strides!

There are two links: one to the audio file (mp3) and one to the printable written music (pdf).

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Music 198: Fields of summer

This is the seventh piano piece in “A Third Little Suite in Fifteen Sketches” and called “Fields of Summer”.

The picture is taken near my house, which is behind the gnarled trees on the left. As can be seen, it’s not been a dry summer thus far.

There are two links: one to the audio file (mp3) and one to the printable written music (pdf).

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Music 195: Leapfrog

Hello All

This is the fourth piano piece in “A Third Little Suite in Fifteen Sketches”. It’s called “Leapfrog”.

Gosh! If I had to play leapfrog these days I’d need two step ladders: one to get up and one to get down. However, I can play “Leapfrog” on the piano!

There are two links: one to the audio file (mp3) and one to the printable written music (pdf).

Audio

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