Serendipity Poetry and Play in Toy Piano composition and Four Pieces for Toy Piano

Revista Vortex

Brian Inglis¹ 

[1] Middlesex University

[2]  UK;

关键词: toy piano;    composition;    play;    found objects;    serendipity;   

DOI  :  https://doi.org/10.33871/23179937.2020.8.2.5

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

In this paper I draw on literature by Xenia Pestova, Antonietta Loffredo and Maggie Williams/Margaret Leng Tan, and primary research in the form of an interview with Kate Ryder (transcribed as an Appendix) exploring aspects of toy piano performance/composition and focussing on my Four Pieces for Toy Piano (2018). These pieces were commissioned by Ryder and premiered by her in London in 2018, and subsequently published and recorded. I identify themes which emerge in, and out from, this and other professional repertoire for toy piano relating to composition and performance practice: material/materiality; sonic character, notation, collaboration and communication. I provide a poietic account of some of the processes involved in the pieces’ composition and realisation in performance.

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