Walden Hughes'
Piano Ensemble Compositions
ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS (Piano Solo and Piano Duet)
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 49 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):
"Barbarian Toccata" MIDI NEW Sabbatical 2004
"Percussive Fugue" MIDI (Piano Trio - 1 piano 6 hands)
pianists tap on fallboard & piano lid (1 pianist sitting and 2 pianists
standing)
"Scherzo" (Piano Duet - 1 piano 4 hands) MIDI
"Blues in Fourths" (Piano Duet) MIDI
"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
"Revolutionary Blues Etude" (Solo) MIDI
"Birthday Blues" (Solo) MIDI
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 by 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.
"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" (Solo) MIDI
This piece is performed with an orange in the right hand (employs both
"rolling" technique and "squashing" technique).
"Grapefruit Etude" (Solo) MIDI
This virtuosic piece is performed with grapefruits in both hands.
Quartets & Sextets (2 pianos 8 hands, 2 pianos 12 hands, 4 pianos 8 hands & 8 pianos 16 hands)
VIDEO performances of Hughes arrangements & Hughes students' performances
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