Originally released on April 22, 2012

My composition “Funk (for solo piano)” was composed at Penn State for a composition class. We had to write a piece using a lot of perfect fourths. I created this piece for solo piano for that exercise.

Below is a link to a PDF of the sheet music. You can click on it to view, or right click to download it to your computer:

Funk (for solo piano) sheet music

“Funk” refers to the rhythms. In my jazz bands, we played a number of funk songs that had a lot of 16th note beats, and a lot of syncopation.