Exkurse - Excursion: A Cycle of Instructive Pieces for Piano

Korte Exkurse - Excursion:  A Cycle of Instructive Pieces for Piano

This selection of short piano pieces by Oldrich F. Korte (1926-2014), is intended as an informative introduction to the technique of certain modest compositional structures.  The limited scope is necessarily determined by the illustrative, rahter than the systematic, character of the entire cycle, and also by its title: this is something of a random excursion into the beginner's composition workshop, where simple forms are learned or, to be more precise, where the composer's craft is applied to certain common types of external formal template.  Thus, in several cases, we examine, in particular, the scheme of the short, three-part song form ABA, rondo, variational treatment, passacaglia and fugue.