Category: EVC Publications

First Performance of About Gods

Post author By MTRG
Post date May 25, 2022

About Gods: Six Preludes for Piano

Op. 88

Six Legendary Figures from Greek Mythology, each with their own unique musical character. Approximately grades 6-8. Full duration: 10-11 minutes.

Published by Clifton Edition. Buy the book here.

Contents

1. Hestia
2. Atalanta
3. Aphrodite
4. Hermes
5. Icarus
6. Theseus

Short introductory video trainer

The final piece of the set (Theseus) was printed in International Piano Magazine during the autumn of 2020.

First performance

Given by Ariana Pethard
Royal Albert Hall: Elgar Room
Elena Cobb Star Prize Festival, April 6th 2022

Composed by Mark Goddard Educational EVC Publications New Edition Piano Solo

About Gods

Post author By MTRG
Post date September 2, 2020

New Preludes for Piano

Op. 88

Six Legendary Figures from Greek Mythology, each with their own unique musical character. Approximately grades 6-8. Full duration: 10-11 minutes.

Published by EVC Publications — Buy the book here.

The final piece of the set (Theseus) appeared in International Piano Magazine during the autumn of 2020.

Hestia

Greek Goddess of the hearth, representing stability.
A gentle soul: the ultimate domestic goddess.

Atalanta

Atalanta was a famous Greek huntress and an exceptional athlete.

Aphrodite

Aphrodite was the Olympian goddess of love, desire and beauty. She frequently engaged the talents and genius of the ancient artists.

Hermes

Hermes is the fastest of the gods and wears winged sandals. He (reputedly) invented the musical scale!

Icarus

Icarus ingeniously escaped prison by creating wings made of feathers and wax. Unfortunately, he perished when he flew too near to the Sun which melted his wings.

Theseus

Theseus was the mythical king and founder-hero of Athens. He successfully battled and overcame many foes including the fearsome Minotaur.

YouTube videos

First performance

Given by Ariana Pethard
Royal Albert Hall: Elgar Room
Elena Cobb Star Prize Festival 2022, April 6

Introducing About Gods — a short trailer video

Free sample pages

Excerpts from each piece in PDF format Download

Free mp3 file

Audio recording of all Six Preludes Download

Composed by Mark Goddard Educational EVC Publications New Edition Piano Solo

About Time

Post author By MTRG
Post date April 27, 2018

Six pieces for solo piano, approximately grades 5-8,
now published by Clifton Edition Ltd.

To order ‘About Time’

Time is something that passes at the same rate for all of us, (although it doesn’t always seem that way!). We are all slaves to the passing of time, yet we are individually perfectly free to do as much (or as little) as we see fit, within it’s confines.

While each piece in this suite is distinct in character, each shares a mutual interest in contrasting “time and rhythm”. The harmonies, while often employing an unashamedly familiar ‘diatonic’ language, also enjoy chords based on the intervals of the second and fourth (for example in Perpetuum Mobile), while Momento Temporis (a moment in time) takes time out to enjoy modal tranquillity and sonorous pedalling. Tempus Fugit (Time flies) and Momentum are each influenced by jazz and lively Eastern European folk dance rhythms. In Tempus Rerum Imperator (Time, commander of all things) we are swept along by the despot that is time, while the final movement Ab Aeterno (From time immemorial) — a dark evocation of eternity — consists entirely of just one particularly ‘timeless’ chord, deployed in a serial (mathematical) series, making use of rhythmical ‘diminution’ and ‘augmentation’ to outline a journey: both outgoing and returning.

Sample PDF file available…

Mark Goddard – About Time – samples

First Performance

World Premiere (YouTube Video)

Performed by Noa Kapelyushnik (14)

Teacher: Tania Kozlova

Venue: Israeli Music Conservatory

YouTube video of the music…

Mark Goddard – About Time – YouTube Video

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