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Nigel Keay - Little Tango Suite for Piano
  1. Kind of Tango (Duration: 1'14")  
  2. New Year in Paris (Duration: 1'15")  
  3. Kind of Milonga (Duration: 1'40")   Little Tango Suite for Piano, Score - PDF, 5 pages, 144Kb

Three short piano pieces composed in 2003/4 for Charmian Keay & Ursula Keay. These three pieces are suitable for intermediate level or younger players. Total duration: about 4 minutes.

 
 
  Listen to Charmian Keay playing New Year in Paris
Other piano music by Nigel Keay: the dancer leads the procession   Interlude   Variations for Piano		  
 
 
             
 

Nigel Keay's Little Tango Suite was first performed Friday 14th May 2004 at the Gallagher Concert Chamber by Okta, the specialist contemporary music ensemble of the University of Waikato Music Department, New Zealand. Performers: Kind of Tango - Tania Koo, New Year in Paris - Erina Yamamoto, Kind of Milonga - Monica Chang

This suite of short tango-inspired pieces for piano was instigated by the completion in 2003 of Kind of Tango for my daughter Ursula's birthday in September. Ursula had suggested that I write her a piece as a birthday gift. Wanting to create a series of pieces to be possible by younger players, I then wrote New Year in Paris and Kind of Milonga over the New Year 2004 period.
All three pieces are based on harmonic material drawn from my larger-scale works; Diversions for chamber orchestra and a new work in progress for flute, viola & harp. I was fascinated with the process of extracting and refining the essential musical idea to present it in its simplest possible form. These short pieces were written in a somewhat "between times" mode with respect to the larger works.

      

Little Tango Suite de Nigel Keay a été créé en 2004 par Okta, l'ensemble de musique contemporaine de l'Université de Waikato, Nouvelle-Zélande. Pianistes: Kind of Tango - Tania Koo, New Year in Paris - Erina Yamamoto, Kind of Milonga - Monica Chang.

Cette courte suite pour piano inspirée par le tango a été écrite à la suite d'une première pièce "Kind of Tango," un cadeau d'anniversaire pour ma fille Ursula. Cela m'a donné de créer des pièces pour de jeunes pianistes autour de l'hiver 2004.

Ces trois pièces sont construites sur des matériaux harmoniques venant des œuvres plus larges de mon répertoire: Diversions et Terrestrial Mirror pour flûte alto et harpe. Ce qui m'a intéressé le plus, c'est lde procéder à l'extraction et l'épuration des idées musicales essentielles de ces œuvres et de les présenter le plus simplement possible. Ces courtes pièces représentent une sorte d'interlude entre des œuvres de plus grande ampleur.