pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html Dagmar Feyen: The Tuesday Thing Jannis' PHPRss class - http://www.jannis.to/ Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:08:51 -0800 You hear bells in this little piece... http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/you_hear_bells_in_this_little_piece A little piece based on fifths. The nice sound of open fifths is a very good evocation of the sound of bells, so that's why I called it that way.


Bells.pdf


Bells.mp3


 


P.S. Next week, there will be something else, because I have to make a composition for a little movie for my lessons in Genk. I will post it, but it will be something very different from the normal Tuesday Things of this year.

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/you_hear_bells_in_this_little_piece Tue, 31 Jan 2012 07:08:51 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing A second Prelude based on fourths http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/a_second_prelude_based_on_fourths A second prelude based on fourths, with my apologies for the delayed posting. I'm swimming in work at the moment!


Hope you enjoy it!


Preludio__2.pdf


Preludio__2.mp3

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/a_second_prelude_based_on_fourths Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:31:27 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing New Tuesday Thing: Exploring fourths http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/new_tuesday_thing_exploring_fourths After a week lying sick in my bed, here is a little piano piece, build with chords and sequences of perfect and augmented fourths. Stefaan mentioned that he had trouble opening the embedded soundfile in the PDF-file of the score, so therefor I include the MP3-file of the piece as well.


Preludio.pdf


Preludio.mp3

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/new_tuesday_thing_exploring_fourths Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:09:13 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing More chords in thirds: a little Étude for piano http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/more_chords_in_thirds_a_little_tude_for_piano My first piece for the new year is a little étude in broken chords. There are all the chords with three notes (diminished, minor, major and augmented triads) and some with four notes (seventh chords).


My New Year gift for all music lovers. Enjoy!


 


Etude.pdf


Etude.mp3

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/more_chords_in_thirds_a_little_tude_for_piano Tue, 03 Jan 2012 07:01:23 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing First species of chords in thirds. http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/first_species_of_chords_in_thirds My first attempt to use chords in thirds explores the qualities of the dimished and augmented triads. It is a free moving melody upon an ostinato-like lefthand chord sequence.


 


Melody.pdf


Melody.mp3

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/first_species_of_chords_in_thirds Tue, 27 Dec 2011 06:35:29 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing I'm starting to explore the chord theory of Persischetti. http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/im_starting_to_explore_the_chord_theory_of_persischetti After the interval section, we move on to the chords. Before exploring chord functions and connections, we first look at the quality of each chord. The first species is a chord build with all seconds.
So a second little Toccatina is the result.


Happy listening!


Toccatina__2.pdf


Toccatina__2.mp3

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/im_starting_to_explore_the_chord_theory_of_persischetti Tue, 20 Dec 2011 06:33:39 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing Already a break, after three Tuesday Things. http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/already_a_break_after_three_tuesday_things Last friday, the mother of two colleagues of mine passed away very suddenly. Therefor, I interrupt my Harmony Workbook Project this week, because I offered to compose a small choral work (three part woman chorus and organ) on a poem of her husband for the funeral service.


It is called "Op weg", this is Dutch for "On the Road"


Op_weg.pdf

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/already_a_break_after_three_tuesday_things Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:13:53 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing Santa Claus today (the European, that is!), and here is a new post. http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/santa_claus_today_the_european_that_is_and_here_is_a_new_post Hello,
To make the transition from the interval section to the chord section of Persischetti's work, I composed a little "Toccatina", using only dissonant intervals, within the chords or between chord notes and melodic material.
Hope you like this one, as it is more pianistically and musically relevant than the two Inventions that I wrote before.


Toccatina.pdf


Toccatina.mp3

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/santa_claus_today_the_european_that_is_and_here_is_a_new_post Tue, 06 Dec 2011 06:34:29 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing Harmony Workbook - part one http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/harmony_workbook__part_one And to show that this time, I mean business, you get two pieces instead of one.


The first topic in the harmony book of Persichetti is a classification of intervals on a scale from sharp dissonant to open consonant. Therefor, I wrote two "Two Part Inventions" to explore these interval qualities. (actually, I wrote one already last week, but never got to uploading it ...).


Embedded in the PDF of the partition is a MP3-file of the computer rendering of the music, and there is also a short explanation of the process involved in composing the piece.


Happy listening (and commenting?)!   
I almost forgot: in the PDF partitions, there is an empty square in the upper left corner. If you click in it, you here the music.


Two Part Invention #1


Two Part Invention #2

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/harmony_workbook__part_one Tue, 29 Nov 2011 15:15:27 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing Fresh start and new approach ... http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/fresh_start_and_new_approach_ What is the best way to study a textbook about 20th century harmony?
Write compositions in the idiom that is at hand.


So for this reason I planned to start a composition project that I call "The Harmony Workbook" were I will use the techniques of the Harmony textbook by Vincent Persichetti "Twentieth Century Harmony - Creative Aspects and Practice" (Norton and Co. 1967).


So from next tuesday on, there will be a small piano piece, handling one of the topics of this book, with a small explanation of it.


hope you will enjoy!

]]> http://dagmarfeyen.com/blog.html/fresh_start_and_new_approach_ Tue, 22 Nov 2011 07:21:19 -0800 pianist, composer and music educator - Dagmar Feyen - The Tuesday Thing