Gwyn Pritchard: Micropus 1-4
Solo piano  

The four tiny piece entitled Micropus were all composed between 2002 and 2008 without a commission or a performance in mind. They each look at a single, simple compositional idea and stop as soon as it is exhausted. There is no development of an idea, hence the brevity. The player is instructed to play without expression and to be as precise as possible with respect to the notation. That way the compositional idea remains foremost, not blurred or obscured by interpretive decisions.  Piece number three must be played twice, once at the beginning of the set and once at the end; the remaining three pieces may be in any order.