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Jackson Berkey’s Keyboard Carols Berkey’s Juilliard and Mannheim Steamroller influences combine to create very atypical arrangements of familiar holiday carols for keyboard. All may be performed on Harpsichord, Piano, or various Synthesizers. Book I Titles: Greensleeves • Three Kings of the Orient • The Good King • Silent is the Night Book II Titles: Christmas Day in the Morning
Jackson Berkey’s Organ Carols Eight Anniversary Carols adapted for organ by Mormon Tabernacle Organist Clay Christiansen. Beautifully engraved and editorially detailed, the organ book is printed in landscape format for easier reading. Titles: Christmas Day In The Morning • The Good King • Fantasy On A Rose • Three Kings Of The Orient • Greensleeves • Silent Is The Night Piano Derivations Piano Derivations, Volume I Solo piano works “derived” from existing works in other genres. The Piano Derivations are retrospective in nature and represent an overview of the composer’s work from 1975 to 1992. Source works for Volume I include the video score for Olympic, and the sacred choral cantatas The Glory of His Majesty, A Messenger Named John, and Come Follow Me!
Piano Derivations, Volume II Source works for Volume II include Gloria in Excelsis Deo!, the video scores for Olympic and Grand Canyon, and the secular chamber works Voices from the Earth and American Perspective One. Titles: Five-Point-Five Four • Blindengarten Gloria • Summer Rain • Colorado Trail Autumn Brilliance |
Jackson Cove Moonrise Strikingly similar to Chopin’s Prelude in E minor (included in the publication), this work captures in music the quickly changing panorama of a moonrise over the Hood Canal on the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State.
Sakura This setting of the famous Japanese folk song is characterized by a peaceful coexistence of two ideas: a straightforward setting of the folk song combined with a high treble 5/4 ostinato. A minimalist approach in the work also suggests the use of wind chimes, visibly cued in the score.
Time Twisters A collection of five works for late intermediate or early advanced pianists focusing on rhythmic and technical complexities. Each piece includes shifting asymmetrical - symmetrical meters. Atypical notation is also occasionally used in the five titles. Titles: Samba Rhumba Walla Walla Delaware Bay Ice • Sakura • Beach Caterpillar Bernadette’s Salsa Egg Dish
Vivaldi’s Winter Reminiscent of Winter from The Seasons by Vivaldi, this is a study in artistic license applied to arpeggiation. The work is typified by a repeating 7-bar phrase. |