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#Cluster chords#Open fifths

An improvisation with no talking, about twenty-four minutes at the piano. For its first seventeen minutes it stays mostly on the black keys, around A flat minor, B flat minor, F sharp and D flat.

It often uses bare octaves and open fifths, a note with the note five steps above it and nothing between (D flat and A flat). It rests for about fifteen seconds at nine minutes, then comes back through B and F sharp.

From about seventeen minutes it turns toward C, more white keys come in, and the playing grows fuller, busiest from eighteen to twenty minutes, through C minor 7 and A minor. It settles around F and C, with C major 7 (C, E, G and B).

Near the end it moves chords of close notes downward, three notes a whole step apart (E, F sharp and A flat, then E flat, F and G), plays one high E again and again alone, and ends on one more chord of close notes.

The chord names and the staff on screen show each chord as it sounds. Put it on to rest or to listen closely.

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