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Music for Solo Piano (1960​-​2001)

by Gordon Mumma

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1.
Jardin: poplars 01:49
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Jardin: tricycle and fence 02:40
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Jardin: coulisse pour Michelle 01:33
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Jardin: lunar asparagus, d'après Max Ernst 01:56
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Jardin: planted song 1 01:45
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Jardin: planted song 2 01:17
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Jardin: planted song 3 01:19
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Jardin: planted song 4 01:44
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Songs without Words: for Christian Wolff 03:37
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Songs without Words: soprapensiero, for Dominic Gill 02:34
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Songs without Words: Richard Felciano 02:39
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Songs without Words: for Younhie Kim 01:31
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Songs without Words: for Jon Barlow 03:00
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Songs without Words: for Merril Lynn Taylor 02:09
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Songs without Words: for David Tudor . . . who went on ahead of us 03:23
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Songs without Words: for George Exon 03:11
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Songs without Words: for David Revill 04:01
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Suite for Piano 04:54
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Graftings: I. scion 01:21
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Graftings: II. recitative 01:28
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Graftings: III. scion 01:14
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Graftings: IV. scion 01:30
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Graftings: V. grafting & slipwaltz 01:09
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Graftings: VI. scion 01:05
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Four Pack Ponies: Bay 01:35
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Four Pack Ponies: Connemara 02:32
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Four Pack Ponies: Dun 03:21
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Four Pack Ponies: Chestnut dreams 02:48
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Basket of Strays: Treble Song 02:48
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Basket of Strays: Soft Saloon Song 02:34
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Basket of Strays: Tearing off: a piece 01:02
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Basket of Strays: Clavichord at 18 01:26
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Basket of Strays: Un bocado de tango 00:51
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Basket of Strays: Octal Waltz 01:02
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5 Sushiverticals: for Merce Cunningham 01:06
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5 Sushiverticals: Octet, for David Behrman 01:35
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5 Sushiverticals: for Lou Harrison 01:09
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5 Sushiverticals: for William Colvig 01:46
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5 Sushiverticals: for C. T. Mumma 03:07
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3 Perspectives: Perspective 1 02:00
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3 Perspectives: Perspective 2 00:44
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3 Perspectives: Perspective 3 01:32
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11 Sushihorizontals: for Jackson Mac Low 01:40
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11 Sushihorizontals: for Alexis at 22 01:10
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11 Sushihorizontals: for Agnes Martin 01:39
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11 Sushihorizontals: for James Klosty 01:25
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11 Sushihorizontals: for Jonathan at 12 00:25
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11 Sushihorizontals: Erdös number . . ., for Paul Erdös 02:20
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11 Sushihorizontals: for Christopher at 15 00:20
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11 Sushihorizontals: for Carolyn Brown 01:23
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11 Sushihorizontals: for Bun-Ching Lam 01:42
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11 Sushihorizontals: for Anatole Leikin 01:08
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11 Sushihorizontals: for Charles Shere 03:01
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Sixpac Sonatas: for H. Wiley Hitchcock 01:08
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Sixpac Sonatas: for Julia Wilson Jones 02:59
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Sixpac Sonatas: for Homer Keller 02:24
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Sixpac Sonatas: for David Bernstein 03:42
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Sixpac Sonatas: no dedication 02:55
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Sixpac Sonatas: (no dedication) 02:42
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Threesome: 1 of a Threesome 05:18
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Threesome: 2 of a Threesome 02:56
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Threesome: 3 of a Threesome 01:42
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Luigi Dallapiccola 00:23
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Durand Begault 00:17
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Diane Carlson 00:35
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Graciela Paraskevaídis 00:34
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Padre Mujica 00:57
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Jacques Bekaert 00:10
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Pauline Oliveros 01:08
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Eduardo Bértola 00:16
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Linda Burman-Hall 00:11
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Corún Aharonián 00:54
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: à Robert Ashley 00:07
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Eleven Note Pieces & Decimal Passacaglia: Decimal Passacaglia, à Carolyn Cook 02:16
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Large Size Mograph 1962 08:02
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about

Gordon Mumma (b 1935) is best known for his pioneering role in the development and evolution of electronic and live-electronic music. The piano has played a significant if underestimated role in his career. With a few notable exceptions, this collection by pianist Daan Vandewalle marks the first commercial recordings of Mumma's music for solo piano composed over more than forty years. It provides an important new perspective on his work as a composer.

The spare textures, irregular rhythms, and pungent dissonances of Bartók's Mikrokosmos echo in Mumma's piano music. The keyboard music of Bach and Haydn, of Schoenberg, Webern, Ives, Krenek, Ruggles, and Ruth Crawford also shaped his early piano ideal, as did the experience of superb recitalists in Detroit and Ann Arbor, including Walter Gieseking, Dame Myra Hess, and Glenn Gould.

The works of the early 1960s were written for the concert hall, but much of the later piano music is more personal－the solitary dreams of a long musical life. And like dreams it filters memories－of music of the distant and recent past, of artistic friendships and loved ones living or dead－to create a uniquely contemporary approach to the piano.

In contrast to Mumma's epic electronic works, his keyboard music is predominantly poetic in its brevity, concentration, and psychological depth. It is music of high specific gravity, each piece a microcosm of finely etched ideas that unfold without literal repetition. For Daan Vandewalle, it is also "music of dialogue" that communicates－both with the listener and within itself－through its deep concern with sound, phrasing, color, dynamic range, and rhetorical nuance.

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released January 1, 2008

Daan Vandewalle, piano

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