Oberon (extract Lifecycle), op.489w - 5 pages

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In F# minor, composed in 1996 in Kensington. Published 1996 as Number 23 of 'Lifecycle'. Popular as a piece for Diploma standard piano players.

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'Lifecycle is a brilliantly conceived piano cycle of ‘imagination and reflection’, combining teaching pieces (the Chaconne and Toccatina are from the Associated Board’s Diploma syllabus) with recital works ranging from the uncompromising technical demands of Scherzo and Oberon, to the outstandingly sublime yet musically powerful Prelude and Nocturne.

Lifecycle covers the composer’s creative life with an extraordinary number of musical connections running through the set, namely the melodic importance of the interval of a third – most often major and rising, the second being the harmony of a bare fifth, again often rising, but equally heard as a chord.

Blake conceived the idea for Lifecycle, a sequence of 24 pieces for the piano, after a conversation with world-renowned pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy in 1962 and dedicates the cycle to this wonderful musician. Although 24 works in the set, it is not a set of Preludes as written by Chopin, Scriabin and Rachmaninov, but there does appear within the cycle one piece in each of the 12 major and 12 minor chromatic keys.'
(from a sleeve-note by Robert Matthew Walker)

The Music Box, op.489 - (4 Pages) The Music Box £4.00	Prelude: Andantino (extract Lifecycle), op.489a - 2 pages Prelude Lifecycle £2.50	Nocturne (extract Lifecycle), op.489b - 2 pages Nocturne £1.50	Impromptu (extract Lifecycle), op.489d - 8 pages Impromptu £4.50
Toccatina (extract Lifecycle), op.489d - 4 pages Toccatina £4.00	Mazurka (extract Lifecycle), op.489e - 2 pages Mazurka £1.50	Walking Song (extract Lifecycle), op.489f - 2 pages Walking Song £1.50	Chaconne (extract Lifecycle), op.489g - 4 pages Chaconne £4.00
Scherzo (extract Lifecycle), op.489h - 4 pages Scherzo £2.50	Ballad (extract Lifecycle), op.489i - 2 pages Ballad £1.50	Rag (extract Lifecycle), op.489j - 2 pages Rag £1.50	Study (extract Lifecycle), op.489k - 6 pages Study £3.50
Berceuse, op.489l (extract Lifecycle) 2 pages Berceuse £1.50	Prelude: Allegro Risoluto (extract Lifecycle), op.489m - 2 pages Prelude: Allegro Risoluto £1.50	Romanza (extract Lifecycle), op.489o - 3 pages Romanza £2.00	Dance of the Hunters (extract Lifecycle), op.489p - 4 pages Dance of the Hunters £2.50
Dance of the Sun and the Moon (extract Lifecycle), op.489q - 3 pages Dance of the Sun and the Moon £2.00	Isabelle (extract Lifecycle), op.489r - 2 pages Isabelle £1.50	Serioso - como una marcia lenta (extract Lifecycle), op.489s - 2 pages Serioso £1.50	Jump (extract Lifecycle), op.489t - 2 pages Jump £1.50
Night and Day (extract Lifecycle), op.489v - 4 pages Night and Day £2.50	Make-Believe (extract Lifecycle/Granpa), op.489x - 2 pages Make-Believe £2.50

	Sinfonietta - concert work for 10 brass op. 300 - tuba part £3.00
	Sinfonietta - concert work for 10 brass op. 300 - horn in F part £3.00