The Five Chords That Shook My World - Piano — Hommage à Philip Glass

Nuorvala, Juhani
Title: The Five Chords That Shook My World - Piano — Hommage à Philip Glass
Authors: Nuorvala, Juhani (Composer)
Product number: 9790550116764
Product form: Sheet music
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Price: 13,60 € (10,97 € vat 0 %)

Publisher: Fennica Gehrman
Edition: 2020
Publication year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 9
Product family: Piano
Finnish library classification: 78.61 Piano
Key words: piano, minimalismi
Juhani Nuorvala (b. 1961) wrote The Five Chords That Shook My World (2020) for pianist Nicolas Horvath's Hommage à Glass project and it is dedicated to him. It's a fantasy meditation on the Train/Spaceship chords in Einstein, that repeating five-chord progression (Fm - Db - A - B7 - E) about which the composer has said that there's something strange, because it never fails to lift the audience to its feet. The duration of the piece is c. 6'30'', and it was premiered by Emil Holmström at RUSK festival (Pietarsaari, Finland) 20th November 2020.

A notable variety of influences - microtonality, American minimalism, New Romanticism, popular music, techno - has been regarded as a special feature of Nuorvala's idiom. Despite this he is not a collage artist; instead he has blended various ingredients to create a mode of expression entirely his own. Nuorvala's works are often marked with frenzied rhythmic drive. He makes music using elements and materials that both the mind and the body respond to. He finds these elements not only in old or new classical music but in various forms of urban popular music, such as the electronic music of modern dance clubs.


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