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• Genre: Educational
• Date of Composition: 1980
• Instrumentation: Piano duet
• Piece Duration: 6
• Publisher: OUP

Extra Information: Four Pictures (nos 3 & 4) have been re-published by Oxford University press in the Album: Piano Duets by Twentieth Century British Composers

These four small piano duets were written in 1982 for, and dedicated to, my sons Mark and Justin. The pictures have no titles, intentionally so, as I wished the imagination of children playing them to provide the titles for them. The first is quite rhetorical and homophonic, the second is a slow waltz in the style of Satie and the third is a short modal dance in the style of Bartok. The fourth piece is, however, the most extended and is thoughtful and evocative in mood with a simple ostinato on the note D providing the backdrop for the entire piece, whilst around it changing harmonic colourations give the piece its essential character.

Four Pictures were originally published by Oxford University Press, with numbers three and four published more recently by them in a volume entitled Piano Duets by Twentieth-Century British Composers.

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