Three Compositions for Piano
Track Listings
| 1. Gourd Music, movements 1 & 2 | ||
| 2. Gourd Music, movement 3 | ||
| 3. Gourd Music, movement 4 | ||
| 4. Shiva Weather | ||
| 5. A Wedding Sonata for Two Pianos, movement 1 | ||
| 6. A Wedding Sonata for Two Pianos, movement 2 | ||
| 7. A Wedding Sonata for Two Pianos, movement 3 |
Editorial Reviews William Allaudin Mathieu (b. 1937) is a pianist, composer, teacher, recording artist, and author. He has composed a variety of chamber and choral works and made numerous solo piano recordings. He has written three books on music — The Listening Book; The Musical Life; and Harmonic Experience: Tonal Harmony from Its Natural Origins to Its Modern Expression. Allaudin was a disciple of North Indian vocalist Pandit Pran Nath for 25 years. He studied African music with Nubian musician Hamza El Din, jazz with William Russo, and European classical music with Easley Blackwood. In the 1960s, he spent several years as an arranger/composer for Stan Kenton and Duke Ellington, and was the musical director for the Second City Theater in Chicago (which he helped found) and for the Committee Theater in San Francisco. In the 1970s, he served on the faculties of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Mills College. In 1969 he founded the Sufi Choir, which he directed until 1982. The past two decades Allaudin has devoted to composition, performance, recording, teaching, and writing from his home near Sebastopol, California.
Album Description
Rich, resonant, beautiful, and intelligent, these compositions reveal Mathieu’s deep understanding of the harmonic (and melodic) essence of modal and tonal music as well his fascination with mbira-type cross-rhythms.
Three Compositions for Piano, Music, W. A. Mathieu, W.A. Mathieu, Kirk Whipple, Marilyn Morales, Rich, resonant piano music full of beautiful and intelligent harmonic modal modulation and mbira-type cross rhythms.
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