Composer: John Lambert Harman
Instrument: Piano Music
Style: Neo-classical
Main Level: Advanced ABRSM (Grade Ref: 3-8 (and above)
Influences : classical, jazz
The pieces are the result of the writing ‘Music Framework’, and John Lambert Harman's work in children's education and his interest in art. This collection illustrates some of his earlier styles of composition, and demonstrate his gift for melodic invention.
The titles of the pieces are important, and John Lambert Harman uses them to add meaning to the repetitive rhythms and simple melodic statements. This creates a pictorial juxtaposition with the already existing musical template: - ‘the pieces make use of very melodic lines whose allusions are grounded in a narrative suggested by their titles’.
The pieces reveal many influences, with Lutoslawski, Mozart and Sartie being among them, as well as jazz music.
Horse and Rider is sister collection to two other groups of 15 pieces (in the writing of):
Green flag and ship - 15 short pieces for piano
A rock, a tree and a plant space - 15 short pieces for piano
Horse and rider I
Beyond madness - The bells
To know is to reason
Jamaican fishermen
Little Anna
Fountains and very green grass
Where the wind blows
The mystery of life
Horse and rider II
Behind the undertaker's door
The man who walked to Rome
Show me your hands
In the country
Ode to the mind
Horse and rider III
Wassily Kandinsky
Lyrisches, 1911
1430 (MK)
Courtesy of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. From the estate of: M. Tak van Poortvliet 1936 / photographer: Studio Tromp
Performed by Eryl Lloyd Williams
