Welcome

Welcome to the “travels by piano” project home page.

“travelsbypiano” is a collective label for my own original compositions and transcriptions for (classical) piano.

This site’s purpose is to serve as a catalog of works (under construction) and central info/reference point: most of the actual musical content (i.e. videos, mp3, pdf scores) is not directly posted here but on other sites:

• YouTube channel – listen to the music here; new content posted regularly
• Load.CD – where you can purchase and download the pdf scores
• imslp.org – another place to download pdf scores from – the free ones

At the moment my distribution strategy goes as follows:

• for the audio side, you can listen to everything posted (I hope to eventually post all my output there) on the YouTube channel, 100% free; I’m still looking into services where to post ID3 tagged official .mp3 files
• for the score side, transcriptions require a fee to download while compositions are free of charge

This site is still under construction; my goal is to publish a complete works catalog and write one post for each composition/transcription, with links (where to listen / where to find the scores) and background info. In the meantime, please check out my YouTube channel, which currently hosts all my transcriptions and a fair part of my compositions.

Thank you and enjoy your stay, Roberto

tbp93 – Impromptu n. 7 in B minor (2009)

This one stems from the same starting idea (dated 7 August 2006) to be used later in prelude tbp85_24. In fact I started working on it AS that prelude but it quickly evolved into something else of larger proportions. I decided to make it / call it an impromptu since it was finished so quickly and its evolution (from the original idea) was totally unprepared / unexpected ^^;

The last piece called impromptu was tbp75, “Rondeau-Impromptu”, which counted as “Impromptu n. 6″, making this one the n. 7. Just as tbp75 was rondeau-like this is variation-like (without pauses between variations) but I refrained from calling it “Variations-Impromptu”; instead, I got the idea of renaming back tbp75 to just “Impromptu”.

Technically speaking it was quite easy to compose; the virtuoso final part makes it off-limits for beginners but I at least tried to go easy on the virtuoso figurations.

Audio:

• YouTube

Score:

• tbp93
  

Hello world!

Welcome to travelsbypiano’s official website (still under construction).

Please check out my YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/travelsbypiano/ where you can listen to my compositions and transcriptions.

I’m in the process of editing and self-publishing my scores on IMSLP (International Musical Score Library Project) where I opened my own composer’s page, under my true name: http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Novegno,_Roberto  Transcriptions will be posted on the original composers’ pages (for example if you’re looking for a Mozart transcription, go to Mozart’s page on imslp.org, open the page of the original work, and find the transcription there). This is taking a lot of time and energy – no kidding – so check back from time to time.