Animal Farm (or, published piano pieces by Elissa Milne with titles that refer to living creatures)
The cataloguing continues, tonight with a view to fauna. I was born in Australia and then raised in New Zealand, and
Easy Little Peppers
The Collected 12-bar Blues for Piano (published) of Elissa Milne
The first “blues” I ever wrote was a song I concocted for my primary school friends to sing one lunchtime
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Mozzie
This piece might be my most performed piano piece to date. It has been on the Australian Music Examination Board piano syllabus since 2000, and the Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music have included it in their Grade 2 Piano exam publication for 2009-10. As a result, there are YouTube performances a-plenty. Meantime quite a few people have discovered this blog while searching for information about Mozzie. So, for the curious, or those seeking some background on the piece, here is the tale of Mozzie. Back at the end of 1995 I had finally (yet suddenly) made the decision to write educational piano music in earnest, and set myself the challenge of writing just one really good piece of educational piano music before the end of the night (midnight, November 27). I’d been out to dinner with my family as it was my parents’ wedding anniversary, so I set myself this challenge at about quarter to eleven at
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