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Fantasy on a Melody by Fiona Apple - "Jonathan"

from Fantasies For Piano by Michael R. Oldham

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Fiona Apple's main idea for "Jonathan" is full of chromaticism and lots of major/minor seconds. I love this song because it is beautiful and uneasy with a dreamlike lilt. (Two against three is always perfection.) The overall tonality shifting from major to minor is overwhelmingly tempestuous and raw. I took these ideas to their most extreme with fast, scurrying passages, heavy semi-atonal sections, all blended with snippets of romantic/impressionistic musings.

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from Fantasies For Piano, released December 13, 2014
Original: "Jonathan" written by Fiona Apple
Album: "The Idler Wheel Is Wiser than the Driver of the Screw and Whipping Cords Will Serve You More than Ropes Will Ever Do"
Composer: Michael R. Oldham
Piano: Michael R. Oldham
Recorded by: Sam Mazzocco (Chubby Pug Productions)
Mixing/Mastering: Sam Mazzocco & Jim Schanz
Recorded at Backthird Audio - Aurora, IL


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Michael R. Oldham Chicago, Illinois

Composer | Pianist

Michael R. Oldham (b. 1989 Braidwood, IL) is a composer and pianist who weaves artwork, story, and imagination into his work.

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