| Composition Year | 1990 |
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| Genre Categories | Pieces; For piano; Scores featuring the piano; For 1 player |
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Complete Score
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Pseudotonal (2023/12/12)
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| Work Title | Lisa |
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| Alternative. Title | |
| Composer | Drehmer, Earl Richard |
| Internal Reference NumberInternal Ref. No. | IED 72 |
| Year/Date of CompositionY/D of Comp. | 1990 |
| First Performance. | 2011/07/29 |
| First Publication. | 2011 |
| Dedication | Lisa Lowe |
| Average DurationAvg. Duration | 4.2 minutes |
| Composer Time PeriodComp. Period | Modern |
| Piece Style | Modern |
| Instrumentation | piano |
This is a very sentimental piece. I hope you will experience the same sweet, tender, happy, yet sad feelings I have whenever I play it or hear it. I began to write this in my car, between piano lessons.
This is one of the most planned-out pieces of music I have ever written. However, it took on a life of its own as I wrote it. In one section I had written the first and last parts. The beginning and end of this section approached each other and eventually were only 1 measure apart. The problem with connecting them was that the first half ended in a different register from the beginning of the last half. For 1 full day I couldn't figure out how to connect them. Finally I realized that the piece has a common harmonic sequence that could be used there and it fit perfectly. Now I can't imagine how any two parts could fit together so well as this. This is a good example of how each piece of music is its own universe.