Name: The Staggering Drunkard by Daniel Slaymaker Instrumental Duet Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Daniel Slaymaker
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The Staggering Drunkard
by Daniel Slaymaker Instrumental Duet - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title The Staggering Drunkard

Artist Daniel Slaymaker

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Daniel Slaymaker

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 4

Arrangement Instrumental Duet

Publisher Daniel Slaymaker

Level 4

Product ID 1128149

Genre Contemporary 20th Century

Instruments Piano

Product Description

Ballade in D Minor for Quarter-Tone Piano, "The Staggering Drunkard." Practical performance would include two pianos - one of which is tuned a quarter-tone flat or sharp - but it is possible to play on a specially constructed quarter-tone keyboard for one performer.

This piece was heavily inspired by Wyschnegradsky's Quarter-Tone Preludes, as well as Chopin's First Ballade in G Minor, and was composed when I was in college (the final version was completed after I left college). It's essentially a solo instrument tone poem that describes someone staggering home after a long night of drinking out, along the way dodging a train and instigating some cops that pursue him, then stumbling upon a carnival that rather promptly boots him out because of his provocative behavior. He eventually finds his way home, now able to rest after a bizarre night of debauchery.

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