Dr. Walden Hughes has written 88 compositions and transcriptions for his university piano ensembles, and by commission for performing pianists and piano faculty in the United States and Europe. These works have been performed widely in 51 different countries by various performing ensembles. The compositions can be heard below as MIDI files.
The full scores can be attached to email for instant delivery & printed with Acrobat Reader, which is a free download if you don't have it already - or with 'Finale Notepad' which is also a free download (click on Finale Notepad icon below for the free download).
For information concerning how to obtain performance scores of the compositions represented by the MIDI files below, contact Dr. Hughes through E mail at (or go to this web site for availability - http://myweb.cableone.net/wdhughes):
DUET (1 piano 4 hands)
Russian Rag MIDI Watch
VIDEO performance of Russian pianists Olga
Bogdanova and Irina Kopteva in performance of Russian
Rag
RagTime Dance
MIDI
Watch VIDEO performance of Russian pianists Olga
Bogdanova and Irina Kopteva in performance of Ragtime
Dance
Joplin's Solace (A Mexican Serenade)
Pineapple Rag (no
pineapples required)
Joplin's Maple Leaf Rag
Watch a
VIDEO Performance of Jenna Hagemeier and Rebecca
Clark
Albeniz Prelude
Commissioned by University of Louisiana at Monroe Piano Faculty for the Louisiana Music
Teacher's Convention.
Couperin's Rondeau: Mysterious Barricades
Prokofiev's Gavotte from the Classical Symphony
Prokofiev's March from the Love for Three Oranges
Bach's "Wachet auf " (Sleepers Awake) MIDI
Bartok's "Rumanian Folk Dances"
. . . . . . . . . . "Rumanische Polka" MIDI
. . . . . . . . . . "Schnell Tanz" MIDI
Gershwin's "Clap Yo' Hands" MIDI
. . . "Fascinating Rhythm" MIDI
Watch a
VIDEO Performance by Geoff Harmon and DorthyAnn
Isaackson
. . . . . "I Got Rhythm" MIDI
Watch a
VIDEO Performance by Lindsy Glaze and Johanna
Hamilton
. . . . . "Oh Lady Be Good" MIDI
. . . . . "Rialto Ripples" (Rag) MIDI
Recorded by the Kipnis-Kushner Piano Duo January 2000 (Parnassus Records - PACD 96030)
Watch VIDEO performance of Russian pianists Olga
Bogdanova and Irina Kopteva in performance of Rialto
Ripples
Grainger's "Children's March" (short version) MIDI
Commissioned by Igor Kipnis for the Kipnis-Kushner Piano Duo
Grainger's "Children's March" (virtuosic version) MIDI
Commissioned by Igor Kipnis for the Kipnis-Kushner Piano Duo
Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King" MIDI
Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony MIDI
Commissioned by Paul Ressel, Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett, Germany
Ibert's "Little White Donkey" MIDI
Tchaikovsky's "Polonaise" from "Eugene Onegin"
MIDI
TRIO (1 piano 6 hands)
Bach's "Brandenburg Concerto Number 6"
Commissioned by Ken Phillips, Hvaler Municipal School of the Arts, Norway.
. . . . . "Allegro ma non tanto" MIDI
. . . . . "Adagio ma non tanto" MIDI
. . . . . . . . . . "Allegro" MIDI
Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" MIDI
Bach's "Sheep May Safely Graze" MIDI
Handel's "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" MIDI
Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" MIDI
Watch
a VIDEO Performance of the NNU Piano Quartet
"Ping Pong Polka" MIDI
"It's a Small World" played with as many ping pong balls as available on the
piano strings
Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise" MIDI
Watch a
VIDEO Performance by Scott King, Andrew Stout and
Jenny Swonger
Commissioned by Ken Phillips, Hvaler Municipal School of the Arts, Norway.
Rossini's "William Tell Overture" MIDI
Strauss' "Radetzky March" MIDI Watch
a VIDEO performance of the NNU Piano Ensemble
Christmas music
for piano trio (or any multiple of 3 pianists at more than one piano)
Commissioned by Linda Kennedy, Arkansas
Joy to the World NEW Sabbatical 2004
. . . . . "Adeste Fideles" MIDI Watch
a VIDEO Performance of the NNU Piano Ensemble
. . . . . "In Dulce Jubilo" MIDI
for more Christmas music, see 4 pianos 8 hands music below...
DUO (2 pianos 4 hands)
Haydn's "Surprise" Symphony
Commissioned by Paul Ressel, Katholische Universitaet Eichstaett, Germany
Albeniz Prelude NEW Sabbatical
2004
Commissioned by University of Louisiana at Monroe Piano Faculty for the Louisiana Music
Teacher's Convention.
Joy to the World NEW Sabbatical 2004
. . . . "Surprise slow movement" MIDI
. . . . . . . . . . "Surprise Finale " MIDI
Schubert's "Ave Maria" MIDI
MIDI
Watch
VIDEO performance of pianists Becky Nelson &
Wendy Quarve in performance Thanksgiving evening 2006 at NNU
Schubert's "Hark Hark the Lark" MIDI
QUARTET (2 pianos 8 hands)
RagTime Dance NEW Sabbatical
2004
Albeniz Leyenda (Prelude) NEW Sabbatical
2004 Watch
a VIDEO Performance of the NNU Piano Ensemble
Commissioned by University of Louisiana at Monroe Piano Faculty for the Louisiana Music
Teacher's Convention.
Faure's Berceuse from Dolly Suite NEW Sabbatical
2004
Beethoven's "Turkish March" MIDI
Copland's "Hoe-Down" MIDI
Watch a
VIDEO performance of NNU Piano Quartet reunion at a homecoming
concert Thanksgiving evening 2006 at NNU (Julia Ganske, Ryan Ketchum,
John Fraley, Brad Jahn)
Dvorak's "Slavonic Dance in C Major" MIDI
Gershwin's "I Got Rhythm" MIDI
Watch a
VIDEO Performance of I Got Rhythm NNU Piano
Ensemble
Liszt's "2nd Hungarian Rhapsody" MIDI
Watch a
VIDEO performance of NNU Piano Quartet performing
Thanksgiving evening 1997 (Julia Hoffman, Brandon Hoffman, John Burton and
Heather Olson)
Milhaud's "Brazileira" MIDI
Watch a
VIDEO performance of NNU Piano Quartet
performing Thanksgiving evening 1999 (Bob Van Allen, John Burton, Brandon
Hoffman, and David Stillman
Prokofiev's "Troika" MIDI (from the Lieutenant Kiji Suite)
Watch a
VIDEO performance of NNU Piano Quartet performing
Thanksgiving evening 1995 (Julia Hoffman, John Fraley,Ryan Ketchum and Heather
Olson)
QUARTET (4 pianos 8 hands)
Joy to the World arranged by Dr. Hughes for 4 pianos 8 hands MIDI
Listen to an 8-piano version of the same piece below:
Joy to the World arranged by Dr.
Hughes for 8 pianos 16 hands MIDI
SEXTET (2 pianos 12 hands)
Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" MIDI
Watch
a VIDEO Performance of the NNU Piano Quartet
Strauss' "Radetzky March" MIDI
Watch a
VIDEO performance of the NNU Piano Ensemble
OCTET (4 pianos 16 hands)
Listen to 8 students from the Hughes studio perform this
octet (as an mp3 file)
Molly Bales, Jill Deakins, Lindsy Glaze, Johanna Hamilton, Jayme Harding, Emily Mace, Sarah Miller, Apryl Page
ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS (Piano Solo and
Piano Duet)
21st century music
"Barbarian Toccata" MIDI NEW Sabbatical 2004
"Percussive Fugue" MIDI (Piano Trio - 1 piano 6
hands)
pianists tap on fallboard, lid and soundboard (1 pianist sitting,1 pianist
standing, 1 pianist lying underneath the piano)
"Scherzo" MIDI (Piano Duet - 1 piano 4 hands)
"Blues in Fourths" MIDI (Piano Duet)
"Fugues a la Mode" (Piano Duet 4-Voice Fugues using a variety of modes from Dorian to Locrian)
. . . . "Mixolydian Fugue" MIDI
. . . . . . . . . "Phrygian Phugue" MIDI
"Blues Suite Blues" (Piano Solo) combines the blues scale & harmonic & melodic 4ths
. . . . . . "Blues in Fourths" MIDI
. . . . . . . . . "Invention Blues" MIDI
. . . . . . . . "Toccata in Fourths" MIDI
. . . . . . . . . . "Giga Blues" MIDI
"Scherzo" MIDI (Solo)
"Revolutionary Blues Etude" MIDI
(Solo)
"Birthday Blues" MIDI (Solo)
For my wife
FRUIT BASKET:
"Duet for 4 Green Bananas" MIDI
This piece is performed by 2 duet partners (at 1 piano) and 4 green bananas (not peeled!)
"Duet for 4 Grapefruits" MIDI
Watch
a VIDEO Performance of Hughes students
This piece is performed by 2 duet partners (at 1 piano) and 4 grapefruits, one in each
hand. Oranges may be substituted in the absence of suitable-sized grapefruits, or if the
players' hands are too small to adequately wield 2 grapefruits. The composer allows a
change of title under these circumstances. Tennis balls and baseballs may also be
substituted, with the appropriate title change. Pomegranates and nectarines are not
recommended.
"Septet for 8 Grapefruits, cantaloupe, watermelon and honeydew melon" (requires 4 pianos) - MP3 file
Performed by Molly Bales, Jill Deakins, Lindsy Glaze, Johanna Hamilton, Jayme Harding, Emily Mace, Sarah Miller
"Duet for 4 Oranges and a Cantaloupe" MIDI
This piece is performed by 2 duet partners (at 1 piano) and 4 oranges, one in each hand.
The secondo player also plays the "cantaloupe" which rests on the bottom few
black notes of the piano (how many depends on the size of the particular cantaloupe). The
secondo player must not only play his/her 2 orange parts, but must also periodically
pick-up and "drop" the cantaloupe (with sufficient exactitude that the
cantaloupe does not fall off the keyboard).
"Orange Etude" MIDI (Solo)
This piece is performed with an orange in the right hand (employs both "rolling"
technique and "squashing" technique).
"Grapefruit Etude" MIDI (Solo)
This virtuosic piece is performed with grapefruits in both hands.
As an added bonus, written while recovering from cataract surgery for 4 pianos / 24 hands:
Cage's 4 Minutes 33 Seconds (of Silence)
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