TOURBILLONS

This 4-minute piece is part of the thirty works for solo piano composed for my concerts or for educational purposes.

This piece is one of the 10 pieces of the PIANO SOLO Vol. 1 collection.

All these pieces have stylistic commonalities:

- a harmonic research mixing classic chords and other more dissonant ones

the most often discreet integration in the same room of several different influences or references (baroque, classical, jazz, pop, etc.)

a musical discourse that is always melodic, coherent and expressive

an implementation of irregular rhythms within traditional measures

a playing technique that plays a lot on the enhancement of accented notes

This is why all these pieces require good technique and a certain physical commitment.

This piece, "Tourbillons", composed at the end of the COVID 19 health crisis, is both melancholy and optimistic. The left hand is a repetitive descending chromatic pattern that we will find in each part. The right hand, on the contrary, is totally free: it is a series of different improvisations on the same left hand.

It will be necessary to set up a very great flexibility in the left hand (metronome prohibited!).

The times indicated are for information only. We can play the piece more or less quickly according to the inspiration of each one!

More information on my compositions on www.philippemabboux.com

Hoping that this piece will give you as much pleasure as its composition gave me…