Piano Pieces I-V 鋼琴 小品

這些鋼琴小品創作於 1962 年至 1965 年之間，是羅傑-斯馬利作品中的第一部重要作品。雖然這些作品的簡潔性和結構張力明顯受到韋伯恩和布列茲的影響，但這些影響已被綜合為一種可識別的獨特聲音，其中採用了一系列巧妙的音調、動態和色彩技巧，這些技巧後來成為作曲家（他本人也是一位優秀的鋼琴家）的核心。第二首曲子不僅是對時長比例的練習，也是對鍵盤攻擊和鋼琴音色自然衰減的微妙之處的練習，而最後一首曲子則以卡農和中世紀的等節奏技巧為基礎，更具協奏性"

作曲家: Smalley, Roger
樂器: Piano
出版社: Faber Music
原文簡介:
Composed at intervals between 1962 and 1965, these short piano pieces are the first key work in Roger Smalley’s output. Whilst their conciseness and structural tension clearly evince the influence of Webern and Boulez, these stimuli have been synthesised into a recognisably individual voice, which employs a range of ingenious mensural, dynamic and colouristic techniques that would later become central to the composer (himself a fine pianist). The second piece is an exercise not only in proportional durations, but also in the subtleties of keyboard attack and the natural decay of piano tone, whilst the last piece is more contrapuntal, based on canon and the medieval technique of isorhythm. ‘These are finished compositions not sketches: there is no apparent hesitancy in the application of newly adopted methods, and the sense of keyboard style is almost faultless.’ Music and Musicians (Stephen Walsh), October 1969