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Six Studies

by James M. Creed

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The pieces in this collection are studies, of a sort, and all written in
2021 or 2022. Along with most other things I’ve produced in the
same period, there’s an unintended, relentless sentimentality to
them – inevitable, I suppose, if working with diatonic clusters.
They’re all very simple, and, with the exception of Piano and
Accompaniment, aren’t really “compositions” so much as
demonstrations of what instruments are busy doing while we might
be busy thinking about other things. That’s not to ignore a
performer, and really it’s the opposite: these pieces are
unconstructed, they are timbre, they begin as studies of (for
instance) the piano and end as studies of particular fingers at a
particular piano, which is much more interesting. Piano and
Accompaniment seems an outlier, perhaps, as a piece with more
moving parts, but it isn’t – it’s the same concerns for ensemble, with
some very faint shaping from me.
Thanks to: Kory, Clare, Anne, Freda, Evie, Scott, Amber, Katie,
Meghan, Mia, Fernando, Joy and Ben, and thanks for listening.

*Six Études, Op. 52: no. 2, pour l’indepéndence des doigts (1877)

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released January 6, 2023

All music by James M. Creed
jamescreedmusic.wixsite.com/website
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Track 1, 2 and 6 recorded by James Creed, Goldsmiths Music Studios
Track 2 chamber organ recorded at University of Leeds
Tracks 3, 4, and 5 recorded by James Creed at home, London
Executive Producer, Kory Reeder
Sawyer Editions, 2023
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sawyereditions@gmail.com

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