Name: Minimal Prelude 25 (Minimal Preludes Book III) by Jeroen van Veen
Duration: 8 min 58 s
Description: Book III with Minimal Preludes by Jeroen van Veen

Book III with Minimal Preludes by Jeroen van Veen

Minimal Prelude 25 (Minimal Preludes Book III)

(1998) Chopin Etude Op. 25/11

A live performance by the Bergmann Duo of Marcel Bergmann's two piano work "Urban Pulse", which was commissioned by the Murray Dranoff  Two Piano Foundation for the 10th Dranoff International Two Piano competition

Cerulean Beat

Blue Autumn was commissioned by cellist, Beth Root Sandvoss and recorded by her and Marcel Bergmann (who also wrote the piece) as part of a CD production for the Arktos label. The album with the same title (Blue Autumn) was released in 2007.

Blue Autumn

Nocturnal Etude

Minimal Preludes by Jeroen van Veen, available via www.jeroenvanveen.com or www.vanveenproductions.com

Minimal Preludes, Book I, Jeroen van Veen

Shadow lines

Children's Corner by Jeroen Riemsdijk March 2016

The Snow Is Dancing

Audiotrailer of the new album The Piano Files II. 
Grab it at https://www.douweeisenga.com/en/shop/albums/the-piano-files-ii-new.htm

Album van Douwe Eisenga

The Piano Files II - Audio Trailer

Buy sheet music at https://www.stevenhenrymusic.com
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Performed by Orkest Zuid (https://www.orkestzuid.nl)
Conductor: Jos van de Braak
Muziekgebouw Eindhoven, 29 May 2016
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The composition "Binary Digits" is loosely built on a binary structure. The work can be divided into three sections:

The 1st section has a "bit-length" of 1 (2^0). All the parts, like the clarinet and the piccolo/Eb-clarinet, are single.
The 2nd one has a "bit-length" of 2 (2^1). In terms of counts of eighth notes, is twice as long as the first section. Also, all parts are like a duet, in a free canonical form.
The 3rd section has a "bit-length" of 4 (2^2) and lasts twice as long as the second one and, therefore, four times as long as the first section. And as you can guess, this is kind of a quartet, again in a free canonical form.
In all sections, instruments like the flute, oboe, and marimba play a "binary counter". One hit stands for a "0", and two hits stand for a "1". There is one bit to count in the first segment, two bits in the second one, and four bits in the third.

And there’s one more thing: The structure of this work also partly relies on the prime numbers "11" and "101" (3 and 5 in a decimal system). The maximum value of a 4-bit number is 1111, equal to 15 in our common base-10 number system. "3" and "5" are the two prime factors of 15.
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"A bit is the basic unit of information in computing and digital communications. A bit can have only one of two values, and may therefore be physically implemented with a two-state device. These values are most commonly represented as either a 0 or 1. The term bit is a portmanteau of binary digit. . . . The length of a binary number may be referred to as its bit-length." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit)

Minimal Prelude 25 (Minimal Preludes Book III)

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