Three Meditations for Solo Piano

The three movements of L. C. Harnsberger’s Three Meditations for Solo Piano evoke the contemplative music of Erik Satie, Philip Glass, John Adams, and Max Richter. Each movement represents a different type of meditative mood that spurs different emotions and bursts of creativity.
The first movement is a simple and calm melody that uses gently shifting harmonies and momentary pauses, with a hint of medieval chordal resolutions. The second movement uses a brisk, flowing motive that pauses at the end of each phrase, as if to take a long breath while ideas form in the mind. The third movement starts as a soft and persistent rhythmic idea that feels like the gentle motion of a swing. It builds slowly to a climactic moment representing a grand idea that comes from the deepest rivers of the mind, when suddenly the time of meditation ends and the sounds ring slowly into silence.