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Re: Six Canonic Variations by Dennis Riley

null@example.com (hanysz) — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 03:31:36 +0000

Very cool, both the music and the visuals.

Re: Six Canonic Variations by Dennis Riley

null@example.com (budo) — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 21:33:45 +0000

very interesting music and great performance.

Re: Six Canonic Variations by Dennis Riley

null@example.com (Pianoteqenthusiast) — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 18:50:12 +0000

Interesting music. So interesting that I had to go to your yt channel and look for more. Listened, and I liked the Foxtrot by Wilhelm Grosz very much, because I immediately thought of Debussy: Golliwog's Cakewalk from Children's Corner. Foxtrot resembles the piece in many ways, just a little more speed….Like an ”Classics up to date” of Debussy
Thank you very much. Enjoyed.

Re: Six Canonic Variations by Dennis Riley

null@example.com (Borealis) — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 17:24:01 +0000

I wish I had more to listen. A music I couldn't stand when I was a child and that I appreciate now.

Six Canonic Variations by Dennis Riley

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 13:11:39 +0000

Here is another obscurity dredged up from my collection of avant-garde piano scores. Dennis Riley (1943-1999) was an American composer whose style extends from Webernesque miniatures (as in this piece) to a later embrace of neo-Romanticism. These six miniature pieces were written in 1963, when Riley was a student at the University of Colorado. All six are canons, contrapuntal pieces where an initial melody is repeated after a certain duration (usually less than a measure), at a different interval (even numbered variations), or inverted (upside down -- odd numbered variations).

Released on World Piano Day 2021.

Six Canonic Variations