Julia Sherriff

This started life as a few minutes of piano improvisation, playing around with some slightly jazzy chords and a simple repeating rhythm (see below). At the time I was not really sure where it was going (if indeed it was going anywhere!) but I decided to play around with it a bit to see what…

Named mostly for the colour-coding that I used to show where the different parts appear! There are a few ideas inspired by Beethoven in there: I have been learning about his piano sonatas recently…

This feels more like a construction project than a composition! The accompaniment consists of 6 consecutive canons, each consisting of the same line played 3 times and offset by half a bar each time. Hopefully the colour-coding helps to indicate where each line occurs.  I wanted to play around with the effects of different combinations,…

1. The Original Improvisation 2. The Transcribed Version 3. The “Non-Tremolo” Version There are three versions of this, so I will try to explain my thinking. This set of compositions was a bit of an experiment. I wanted to play around with the effect that can be created by layering lines played in tremolo on…

This one has a few rhythmic issues and slowly turns into a bit of a nightmarish musical box, but there you go… As before, the title is just a weather-stamp – it was pouring down outside, again!

More seaside inspiration, but it got a bit more complicated this time. (As a result I couldn’t play it very well, but hopefully it gets the impression across!)

Sophie asked for some Mozart, so here goes… (please forgive the intonation – I don’t quite have the precision to do Mozart justice!)

This didn’t start life as a mazurka when I picked out the initial theme on the piano: I’m not really sure how it ended up as one! But I wanted to experiment with the whole tone scale, again inspired by music I had been playing (this time orchestral).