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⇒ 6 more: Prelude No.2 • Prelude No.3 • Prelude No.4 (original) • Prelude No.5 • Prelude No.1 (pentatonic) • Prelude No.4 (fast)
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Earl Richard Drehmer, 2011.
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Finale 2008
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score performed by Finale, recorded by Audacity, video created with Windows Movie Maker
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Synthesized/MIDI
⇒ 6 more: Prelude No.2 • Prelude No.3 • Prelude No.4 (original) • Prelude No.5 • Prelude No.1 (pentatonic) • Prelude No.4 (fast)
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Earl Richard Drehmer, 2011.
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Finale 2008
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score performed by Finale and recorded by Audacity
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Sheet Music
Scores
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Earl Richard Drehmer, 2011.
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notated in Finale (contains all 5 plus 2 alternates)
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General Information
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5 Preludes
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| Composer
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Drehmer, Earl Richard
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None [force assignment]
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| Movements/SectionsMov'ts/Sec's
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5 (10) pieces
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1983-2011
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2011/05/02
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2011
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| Average DurationAvg. Duration
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7 minutes
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| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period
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Modern
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| Piece Style
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Modern
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| Instrumentation
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piano
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| Extra Information
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with 2 alternate versions
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Navigation etc.
These 5 preludes were written when I was in a particularly improvisatory mood and was really into Scriabin. So they have some things in common with each other and with Scriabin's music. Most of Prelude 5 was written years later. I was looking through some manuscripts and discovered the first few phrases were all that I had written. I had tossed them off without ever trying them out on the piano. I thought they were worth something, so I finished it, and quintupled its length in the process. Then I re-examined Preludes 1 and 4. I thought Prelude 1 might sound interesting if it were completely pentatonic. The original Prelude 4 was the slow version. I tried it out with staccato and extremely fast and some other changes in interpretation and settled on that being the official version. I also added a few notes and measures to some of the other preludes and decided to collect them into a set and call them all preludes.
