Tom Sawyer Blues et Rag Suite. Piano solo.

“Tom Sawyer Blues et Rag Suite” is a piano piece that I started composing in the Fall of 1989 and took a year to be finished.

Coming back from a rehearsal with the Rock Band “The Ska-riotes”, I kept fooling around with the black notes of my keyboard and the main line of the melody came out. I enjoyed the tune and wrote it on a sheet paper.

Then, while I was composing other songs for the band, the pencil version of this piano work developed and grew to a polished version.

It is a composition of twelve parts of twelve bars. The structure is divided in three parts (although there is no discontinuation) and can be resumed as A-B-B-C, where the second “B” is intended for improvisation means. In this recording you can hear an exact repetition of the part.

Here is an embed of the song, to be enjoyed along the allegoric pictures of Tom Sawyer, Portraits of Mark Twain and pictures of piano keyboards.

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Here is the MP3 embed of the song:

“Tom Sawyer Blues et Rag Suite”. 4’05

1989/90 Piano Solo
© VAV 1995

And here is the score of the piano piece. The first page is a blank page. I don’t know how to get rid of it so I left it.

“Tom Sawyer Blues et Rag Suite”.

1989/90 Piano Solo
© VAV 1995