Piano Music
DeltaBandResonator for Piano (2003)
My second large scale work for piano, DeltaBandResonator for Piano is an eccentric mix of Americana folk elements contrasting with blues, and boogie-woogie influences, and a clustery barbarism inspired by recent electronic music. Duration is around 12 1/2 minutes long. Score available shortly!
BlueStrider for Piano (1994)
A virtuoso piano composition in the grand manner. Hints of Fats Waller, Beethoven, Bartok. Not for the faint of heart!
BlueStrider for Piano
MIDI File of BlueStrider
BlueStrider Acrobat Score
PostScript Score of BlueStrider
GZipped Score (309 Kb)
Performances
Preludes for Piano (1991-)
A Suite of 22 Preludes (more on their way). Just a note about the Acrobat scores to Preludes 1-5. They were done with a very primitive scoring program I used to use on the Amiga. They're here until I can get them re-set professionally. They're legible, just not great looking...
Prelude 1: An invention. MIDI File for Prelude 1
Prelude 1 Acrobat Score
Prelude 2: A Scarlattiesque rip.
MIDI File for Prelude 2
Prelude 2 Acrobat Score
Prelude 3: A blitz of notes in two voices.
MIDI File for Prelude 3
Prelude 3 Acrobat Score
Prelude 4: A three part canon; the material foundation of my Symphony.
MIDI File for Prelude 4
Prelude 4 Acrobat Score
Prelude 5: A commentary on the quiet Scarlatti.
MIDI File for Prelude 5
Prelude 5 Acrobat Score
Prelude 6: A 3 minute piano composition with counterpoint and funky rhythms galore.
MIDI File for Prelude 6
Here's a few comments (translated by my friend Vassily) from members of the Russian audience at a concert by Svetlana Kalinnikova in Noginsk
(outside of Moscow) after her premiere of my Prelude #6 in 1993:
"... The premier of J. Harrington piece - a real sensation! This expressive and dramatic piece is not contradicted to the music of
Skryabin and Rachmaninov sounded in the second part of concert. Quite the reverse, it is close to them in spirit without respect to a stylistic difference."
"...To tell the truth, I had not high opinion to American school of composition. But this short work caused me to change my views: master's made, it is a
dramatic and spiritual too. I don't know why, but I feel analogy with Taneyev's works."
"... The perforamce by Svetlana Kalinnikova of the modern American colleague, to my mind, is followed by the spirit of author and it made response in listeners. The success of modern music in our society is unpredictable."
Prelude 6 Acrobat Score
Prelude 7: A 2 1/2 minute blues meets Scarlatti extragaganza. Premier Performance by Katie Hug, October 28, Pro Football Hall of Fame
Auditorium, Canton Ohio.
MIDI File for Prelude 7
Prelude 7 Acrobat Score
Preludes 8,10 and 11 begin a series of piano pieces written for the accomplished amateur. Prelude 8: A 2 1/2 minute exercise in piano brutalism. Jerry Lee Lewis meets Galina Ustvolskaya!
MIDI File for Prelude 8
Prelude 8 Acrobat Score
Prelude 9
MIDI File for Prelude 9: A 1 minute descent into Lisztian frenzy!
Prelude 10
MIDI File for Prelude 10 (1997)
Prelude 11
MIDI File for Prelude 11 (1997)
Prelude 12: Another visit to hack rock and roll pianism warped into Shostakovichian mayhem.
MIDI File for Piano Prelude 12 (1998)
Prelude 13: Wild and woolly ride through Salsa. Is that the Mission Impossible Theme Song mangled? Nah... It couldn't be!MIDI File for Piano Prelude 13 (1998)
Prelude 14:
Prelude 15: An homage to Elton John and other rock and roll piano pounders. Be sure to turn it up loud!
MIDI File for Piano Prelude 15 (1998)
Prelude 16:Explosive non-stop pounding with a Beethoveny twist. Big big Ragtime mayhem.
MIDI File for Piano Prelude 16 (1998)
Prelude 17
MIDI File for Piano Prelude17 (1998)
Prelude 18
MIDI File for Piano Prelude18 (1998)
Prelude 19
MIDI File for Piano Prelude19 (1998)
Prelude 20
MIDI File for Piano Prelude20 (1998)
Prelude 21
MIDI File for Piano Prelude21 (1998)
Prelude 22
MIDI File for Piano Prelude22 (1998)
Performances:
Complete Piano Preludes Available for Download Again
Since the demise of MP3.COM I've had to take a signifcant amount of my previously available music offline. Yesterday I got an account purely for housing MP3's. Harrington MP3's and have been furiously uploading since then. For the first time in 3 years, my complete piano preludes are available. These 22 pieces combine my contrapuntal style with blues, boogie and rock influences.
Piano Prelude 1
Piano Prelude 2
Piano Prelude 3
Piano Prelude 4
Piano Prelude 5
Piano Prelude 6
Piano Prelude 7
Piano Prelude 8
Piano Prelude 9
Piano Prelude 10
Piano Prelude 11
Piano Prelude 12
Piano Prelude 13
Piano Prelude 14
Piano Prelude 15
Piano Prelude 16
Piano Prelude 17
Piano Prelude 18
Piano Prelude 19
Piano Prelude 20
Piano Prelude 21
Piano Prelude 22