Prelude No. 2 (Drops) for Solo Piano by Keane Southard

Keane Southard

Prelude No. 2 (Drops) For Piano

(2008) (Duration: c. 3 mins.)

Program notes: Prelude No. 2 for piano was written in the 2008 and represents my first attempt at 12-tone composition, although I don't really employ it in the traditional way. Instead, the “drops” create an atmosphere much more akin to Debussy than to the second Viennese school.

Keane Southard 2008

Performance instructions: 1. The sustain pedal and the soft pedal should both be held down for the entire duration of the piece.

2. The piece is written on three staves, where the top staff always uses a treble clef with a small “eight” (8) on top of it, which designates that all music written on that staff should be played an octave higher than notated.

3. The piece is written with proportional notation, where the space between dashed-barlines indicates three seconds and each note is supposed to be performed according to its horizontal position in the “measure”.

4. An accidental only applies to the note that immediately follows.

Keane Southard/Spindrift Pages Email: keane.southard@hotmail.com Website: keanesouthard.instantencore.com

Prelude No. 2 (Drops)

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 15 ''

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3'03''