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The Memory Room
978-0-19-373527-9
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Paperback
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05 May 1994
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A piano suite of 16 short, or very short, pieces. The music evokes and alludes to a wide variety of keyboard styles, from the 16th to the 20th centuries, from classical to rock. Forces or CategoryPiano soloDuration17 minutesDifficultyDifficultProgramme Notes I. (senza tempo)
II. Martellato, furioso
III. Andante tranquillo
IV. Mesto, espressivo
V.
Vivo
VI. Adagio non troppo
VII. Largo
VIII. (senza tempo)
IX. Presto e leggiero
X. Lento, meccanico
XI. Tranquillo
XII. Allegro energico
XIII. (senza tempo)
XIV. Allegro molto
XV. Lento e calmo - Song Without Words
XVI. (senza tempo)
Unlike my two previous works for solo piano, both large-scale sonatas, The Memory Room consists of 16 short, or very short pieces.
The title refers to the Renaissance `memory theatres' in which a collection of images stimulates the memory, but more specifically I imagined the hall in which a piano recital is heard (even the piano itself, which is now, of all instruments, the most laden with memories of its own repertoire ) as a memory
room.
So the music evokes, and alludes to, a wide variety of keyboard styles from the 16th to the 20th centuries, from classical to rock. The fourteenth piece contains memories of these memories, whilst within the overall cycle there is a secondary thread formed by four time pieces (Nos I, VIII, XIII, XVI) which, starting in clear bright colours, become progressively darker and more clouded.
The Memory Room was written in 1990-91 for William Howard and is dedicated to him. He gave the first performance at the Lichfield Festival on 10 July 1992.
© Anthony Powers
Reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press
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Anthony Powers (b.1953) Born in London in 1953, Anthony Powers studied at Oxford, in Paris with Nadia Boulanger, and at York with David Blake and Bernard Rands. He taught for two years at Dartington College of Arts before being appointed Composer-in-Residence to Southern Arts. Since then he has moved to Herefordshire where he continues to divide his time between composing and teaching, currently at Cardiff University, where he has been Professor of composition since 2004.
Powers's music is characterized by strong architectonic frameworks that support a language of poetic intensity and magical sonorities. His music often takes its inspiration from the tension between different states, be they physical properties, landscapes, seasons or emotions.Anthony Powers at Cardiff University
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"This is a fascinating work" - Piano Journal "Contemporary, resourceful, colourful, not over-difficult, a good 17-minute recital piece clearly reproduced from the composer's very neat manuscript." - Classical Piano
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