Music Analysis: Toccata in Funk
Toccata in Funk Bradley G. Eustace (b.1978)
Moderate speed with energy
Bradley Grant Eustace, the son of Robert and Rita Eustace, was born in Cairne, Australia on July 12th, 1978. Eustace is an Australian composer, arranger, publisher, and pianist who had been one of the nominees of the top five in the Classical/Jazz section of the 2008 National Music Oz Awards. He started learning many musical instruments in the age of 8 and he got his first Associate Diploma from Yamaha Music Foundations when he was 15. In 1995, he won a MOST (Most Outstanding Student) scholarship in the State of Queensland on bass clarinet. Then, he graduated as Diploma in Music Technology with the Australian Guild of Music Education in 2001 and got the Master degree in Music Technology from University of Newcastle Conservatorium in 2005. He works dealing with modern technology such as exploring the performance potential of MIDI. His Bradley Eustace Digital Music Library is a technology-based collection of seven books suited for beginner to advanced performers, mostly for piano, digital piano, and digital keyboard, such as Hipno, D’Groove, Barzurk, Fabtabulous, Fusion, Ragazzi, and Spiritus.
The book Spiritus was made in 2002 consists of The Spirit of the Flame, X-theme, Bali Spirit and Toccata in Funk, composed for advance piano and keyboard. Toccata, firstly appeared in late Renaissance period, is a piece of music for plucked-string instrument (e.g. organ, keyboard, harpsichord, etc.), in which the player’s was displayed through rapidity and delicacy. Toccata form was combined with a ricercare, an elaborate contrapuntal instrument composition in fugal or canonic style, and in Baroque period, Bach wrote several Toccata and Fugue including the very popular piece, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the main idea of Toccata in Funk. Whereas the word funk in music has the meaning of a type of combination music elements, such as jazz and blues, in heavy syncopated rhythm and repetitive bass
Moderate speed with energy
Bradley Grant Eustace, the son of Robert and Rita Eustace, was born in Cairne, Australia on July 12th, 1978. Eustace is an Australian composer, arranger, publisher, and pianist who had been one of the nominees of the top five in the Classical/Jazz section of the 2008 National Music Oz Awards. He started learning many musical instruments in the age of 8 and he got his first Associate Diploma from Yamaha Music Foundations when he was 15. In 1995, he won a MOST (Most Outstanding Student) scholarship in the State of Queensland on bass clarinet. Then, he graduated as Diploma in Music Technology with the Australian Guild of Music Education in 2001 and got the Master degree in Music Technology from University of Newcastle Conservatorium in 2005. He works dealing with modern technology such as exploring the performance potential of MIDI. His Bradley Eustace Digital Music Library is a technology-based collection of seven books suited for beginner to advanced performers, mostly for piano, digital piano, and digital keyboard, such as Hipno, D’Groove, Barzurk, Fabtabulous, Fusion, Ragazzi, and Spiritus.
The book Spiritus was made in 2002 consists of The Spirit of the Flame, X-theme, Bali Spirit and Toccata in Funk, composed for advance piano and keyboard. Toccata, firstly appeared in late Renaissance period, is a piece of music for plucked-string instrument (e.g. organ, keyboard, harpsichord, etc.), in which the player’s was displayed through rapidity and delicacy. Toccata form was combined with a ricercare, an elaborate contrapuntal instrument composition in fugal or canonic style, and in Baroque period, Bach wrote several Toccata and Fugue including the very popular piece, Toccata and Fugue in D minor, the main idea of Toccata in Funk. Whereas the word funk in music has the meaning of a type of combination music elements, such as jazz and blues, in heavy syncopated rhythm and repetitive bass