Name: Reeves, Camden: Star Preludes
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Reeves, Camden: Star Preludes

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Arrangement: for piano solo
Edition Type: score
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-cr2sp1
Pages: 32
Date Published: 28th Apr 2023

This is my second piano work inspired by one of the 48 constellations listed by Ptolemy in the second century AD. This one is inspired by Lyra – ‘The Lyre’. I love the idea of a giant instrument in the sky.

These 23 preludes are of various lengths. Some are extended, but most are very short.

The cycle was inspired, poetically, by the various properties of the stars and other formations visible in the Lyra constellation. For example… Vega is the brightest star in the constellation, so that prelude appears three times; it is also slower each time, as if our attention is increasingly drawn to it. Sheliak is a binary star system, so that prelude has a ‘double’ (a re-composition of the same material). Ring Nebula is a cloud of ionised gas expanding from its core, which I reflect as a set of variations expanding out from a theme. Some preludes are broken apart, as if our gaze is diverted and then returns, or as if we view them through lenses of ever-increasing magnification.

That is just a flavour of my thinking in writing this music. As I say, the inspiration is poetic rather than literal. The three occurrences of Vega provide some orientation, but it is not intended that listeners will be able to follow precisely where we are in the structure at any given time. Everything is played as a continuous sweep of music, with the divisions often deliberately obscured. I want you to get lost amongst the stars.

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