Five Finger Patterns (2018)
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 2: No 2
Dedicated to Willem Boshoff
Composed 21-28 May 2018, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1282 (Volume 2 Complete)
Duration: 1'30"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance:
Programme note
Five Finger Patterns introduces several new concepts for the young player - staccato-legato, crescendi - while making melodic patterns with the notes of the pentatonic scale G-A-B-D-E. This is interrupted by a passage with repeated chords, introducing the acciacatura or grace-note.
for solo piano
Afrikosmos Volume 2: No 2
Dedicated to Willem Boshoff
Composed 21-28 May 2018, Saint-Léger-Magnazeix
Publisher: Bardic Edition
Available from Goodmusic Publishing
Score BDE 1282 (Volume 2 Complete)
Duration: 1'30"
Recording
Recorded by Antony Gray on 'Michael Blake: Afrikosmos’ (Divine Art DA 21374)
Première
First performance:
Programme note
Five Finger Patterns introduces several new concepts for the young player - staccato-legato, crescendi - while making melodic patterns with the notes of the pentatonic scale G-A-B-D-E. This is interrupted by a passage with repeated chords, introducing the acciacatura or grace-note.
