Frame Story

€20.00

for solo piano

7 minutes

Download here. Download includes pdf of the score

first performed by Fiachra Garvey for Music Network’s ‘Butterfly Sessions’ online during the 2020 Covid pandemic, June 2020

Program Note:

Frame Story is a collection of ten, 10-20 second miniatures, inspired by The Decameron, written by Giovanni Boccaccio. The Decameron is the story of a group of men and women in 14th-century Florence who are all quarantining because of The Black Death. The miniatures that make up Frame Story are a collection of diary pieces, inspired by various books, films, recipes, thoughts, and fears during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic.

  1. ‘what use is the sleep’

  2. ‘Perpetual Broth’

  3. ‘Swimming Studies’

  4. ‘The birds sang passionate songs to one ear only and then stopped’

  5. ‘His Eyelashes’

  6. ‘re: piano hygiene’

  7. ‘Connell’s Chain’

  8. ‘Pink Moon’

  9. ‘Missing Female Company’

  10. ‘Leadership (what leadership?)’