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Serenade for a New Beginning - (2008)
for piano or chamber ensemble (flute, harp and string quartet)
for Erin Iler
Scott and Erin Iler are neighbors on the south of my brother's home, and charming and intelligent new parents. The composer, Eugene Zador, composed a Lullaby for the birth of my son, Jeff, as well as another titled Serenade for a Beautiful Baby for an artist who recently contacted me but who wished to remain anonymous as regards this connection. In Eugene's example, I offer this little Serenade to a next generation with love as did he, also with love.
This simple serenade is an A-B-A structure, with a short contrasting middle section. The major seven chord in third inversion is the basis of the serenade thereby emphasizing the seventh of the scale and its major chords, and with its tonic and subdominant emphasis and final sus4-2 cadential gestures relying on four and five note chords throughout.
Erin Iler
An MP3 demo of the edition for piano is here,
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The score for Serenade for a New Beginning is available as a free PDF download, though any major commercial performance or recording of the work is prohibited without prior arrangement with the composer. Click on the graphic below for this piano-vocal score.
An MP3 demo of the chamber ensemble (flute, harp and string quartet) is here,
