Five-Finger Tower, Piano pieces on Black Keys

Fünf-Finger-Turm, Klavierstücke auf schwarzen Tasten

Edición de / Edited by: Geisselbrecht, Peter

Composer Barbara Heller has been challenging the artistic imagination for many years by using a limited amount of musical material in her works. An example of this approach can be seen in her work as early as 1984 in Scarlet Letters (Schott ED 8620), which is an entire cycle based on only 7 tones. In Five Finger Tower, Barbara Heller imposes two restrictions: five fingers-five keys. The pieces use only the black keys and are performed (nearly) without "thumb under". Moreover, the title Five Finger Tower alludes to the Marriage Tower in Darmstadt, the city where Barbara is based.Barbara Heller?s works often straddle the border between composition and concept. While the pieces of this volume can be studied as recital pieces, they should be used primarily as models for your own experiments and further development. In fact, this volume contains suggestions that are designed to help you achieve this goal. Considered from this perspective, this approach is also an appropriate way to prepare the study of longer pieces such as White Keys, Black Keys (Schott ED 9918), Hidden Stream and others.

CONTENIDO:

The Little Tower
Silence in the Tower
Waltz in the Tower
Trip to the Five-Finger Tower
In Front of the Tower
Climbing the Tower
Walking up the Tower
Blues in the Tower
The Water Reservoir under the Tower
The Angel of the Tower
The Saga of the Tower
The Solemn Tower
Exploring inside the Tower
The Ghost in the Tower
Walking Around the Tower
The Tower at Night
If the Tower Could Sing
The Roof Battlements
View from the Tower over the Countryside
The Tower Ghost
Upstairs-Downstairs
A Race inside the Tower
The Foundations
Echoes
The Tower Construction
Is the Tower Wobbling
Interlude 1, 2, 3
The High Tower
Two or Four Hands
Interlude 6
Contrary Motion
Resonances
Interlude 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
Wandering Intervals
My Interlude