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Junichi Steven Sato: Gray Mass: Parodies for Piano Solo

ISMN: M-58001-001-8
Price: US$17.95 (plus shipping and applicable sales tax)

This is a collection of seven parodistic works for piano solo, most of which make great encore pieces. Featured in this set is the Variations on a Theme by Czerny, an eclectic extravaganza consisting of six variations on Czerny's Etude in E Major, Op. 740, No. 23. This collection also includes short but hilarious parodies on Scriabin's Piano Sonata No. 5 in F-Sharp Major and Grieg's Piano Concerto in A Minor.

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REVIEWS

"[Gray Mass] contains much of interest.... The quality of the work and the extent of the composer's musical vision are both admirable."

—Mark Alburger, 20th Century Music, February 1999

Also reviewed in Piano & Keyboard, January/February 1999 and in Clavier, July/August 1999

CONTENTS

Variations on a Theme by Czerny
Variation on a Swiss Song
Variation on a Variation on a Swiss Song
Gray Mass (Parody on Scriabin's Sonata No. 5)
A Bizet-Liszt-Mozart Pastiche
Arrangement of the Prelude and Fugue in D from J. S. Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Parody on Grieg's Piano Concerto

SAMPLES

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69-second audio clip from the end of Variations on a Theme by Czerny:
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SPECIFICATIONS

Item number:		SM37a
ISMN:		M-58001-001-8
Suggested retail price:		US$17.95
Instrumentation:		Piano solo
Level:		Early advanced to advanced
Pages:		37
Size:		9×12"
Release date:		1998
Duration:		Varies