Document Type
Creative Work
ANZSRC / FoR Code
1904 PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING
COinS
Creative Work
1904 PERFORMING ARTS AND CREATIVE WRITING
Publication Details
Ingham, S. F. (2002). Long Flat Blues (for solo piano). [CD] :Melbourne Move Records.
Digital file not available. For access to the CD (audio file) of this item, please contact Michael Organ, Manager Repository Services: morgan@uow.edu.au.
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RESEARCH IMPACT STATEMENT
Research Background
As a composer and musician engaged in practice-based research at the tertiary level for over thirty-five years, my original creative works have served to extend and develop various genres of acoustic and electroacoustic music. These works have been performed, and in many cases commissioned, by performers of the highest international calibre, and subsequently broadcast and disseminated via recordings and scores. The research objective of Long Flat Blues was to compose a virtuoso work for concert pianoforte based on the notion of terraced dynamics and designed to extend the traditional Western musical notation system.
Research Contribution
The originality and significance of this work, apart from the music itself, lies with the composer’s invention of a novel piano notation on four staves. It is designed to visually enhance and stimulate a performance based on terraced dynamics. This work develops a life-long sequence of my piano compositions which are based on jazz idioms dating back to the often-performed, recorded and broadcast Van Horn Boogie of 1977.
Research Significance
Published reviews, an audio excerpt and further details are available here. This composition was commissioned by prominent concert pianist Professor Ian Holtham, Head of Keyboard at the the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Music and subsequently included in his CD anthology of Australian music for solo piano (“Giants in the Land”, Move Records MD3239)