11 Short Classical Piano Pieces

11 Short Piano Pieces
1. Waltz
2. McGillicuddys Rant
3. Invention: Canon at the Octave; Syncopated Rhythm
4. Invention: Canon at the Ninth
5. C-E-G Prelude
6. Sues Song
7. Study: Chromatic Noodling
8. Dream: Hearing Footsteps
9. Broken Glass
10. Julias Prelude
11. Waltz (reprise)
Clark Winslow Ross

11 Short Piano Pieces (1980-98) Clark Winslow Ross
11 Short Piano Pi eces (1980-98) is a collection of piano compositions written over a fairly
long period of time. Most are for beginning-to-intermediate pianists, but the last four are more
demanding. The pieces that have very little in common, save their brevity. They can be played
independently of one another, or in any combination of the performers choice.
Waltz was written for the 1994 Kiwanis Music Festival of Greater Toronto as a theme on which
young composition students were to write variations, and McGillicuddys Rant was written in 1980, the
year I started studying composition. This also exists in a version for classical guitar with numerous
variations. I played it for my guitar teacher many years ago, before I had come up with a name for it, and,
for reasons I have never been able to fathom, he suggested the name McGillicuddys Rant. I felt the
pentatonic tune had a vaguely Scottish, folk-like quality, and although it bears little resemblance to a
Rant, I did not know that at the time, so the name stuck. The two inventions were commissioned by
Frederick Harris Publishing for possible use in the Royal Conservatory of Music graded piano albums,
aimed at earlier grades, and the C-E-G Prelude was written much later (1998), also as a relatively easy
student piece. I wrote Sues Song for my former sister-in-law, Susan Griffin, in 1986 as her birthday gift.
The next three pieces become increasingly chromatic and challenging. Chromatic Noodling was
conceived as a study, and is a fun, rather nutty piece. Dream, is an impressionistic composition written
for my friend and former colleague Liana Lam (who came up with the idea of making a collection of my
short, but unrelated, piano pieces, and performed them), while Broken Glass is short but very
challenging. It was written for Barbara Pritchard, also a close friend, who specializes in the performance
of insanely-difficult modern works, and she commissioned it through the Canada Council in 1991.
Julias Prelude was named for my wonderful daughter, and was written in the style of Schumann just for
the heck of it, after a harmony class one day in which we analyzed Bach's Prelude to the Bb Fugue from
the Well-Tempered Clavier (book 1). Yes, there is a connection!
Clark Winslow Ross's compositions have been performed in England, Ireland, the United States, and
across Canada by some of Canada's finest musicians, ensembles, and orchestras. He was Composer-in-Residence at
Ireland's Waterford New Music Week in 2003, and has won Young Composer's Awards in national competitions by
the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra and the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra. He has also received over 20
commission grants from various funding agencies, including the Canada Council, the CBC, and the Newfoundland
and Labrador Arts Council. Clark is the founder and Artistic Director of the Newfound Music Festival, held every
February in St. John's, and was a founding member and later President of Continuum, the Toronto-based new-music
group. He serves on the national executive of both the Canadian League of Composers and the Canadian Music
Centre.
Born in Maracaibo, Venezuela, Clark was raised there and in Caracas (Venezuela), Lima (Peru), Lennoxville
(Quebec), New York City, Fort Lee (New Jersey), Brussels (Belgium), and Toronto, where he attended university.
Upon receiving a Mus.Doc. (composition) degree from the University of Toronto in 1992, he began working at
Memorial University's School of Music, where he is currently an Associate Professor, teaching composition,
orchestration, theory, electronic music, and classical guitar. He was awarded Memorial University's President's
Award for Outstanding Research (1999) in recognition of his extensive compositional activities. He is married to
Dr. Jennifer Porter (professor of Religious Studies, Memorial University), and has three children (Alexander, (b.
2004), Andrew (b. 2001), and Julia (b. 1990). His interests outside of family and music include baseball, cats,
cooking, ethnic food, reading, writing short stories, and invigorating jumping dances.
Other works for piano and other instruments can be heard and downloaded at: www.clarkross.ca
Contact Clark Ross via E-mail at: clark@mun.ca, or through his website
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1. Waltz
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