The 88 Keys of Carl Schroeder

You know, there are times when you just can't do a one-pager in all seriousness.  Carl Schroeder, a Minnesotan composer-pianist, decided he was going to write a joke piece, but let it sing, too.  And it uses all the piano has to offer on its keyboard.

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88 Keys is "an 88-tone row for solo piano", and it's a joke that might take a second to explain.  In music theory a "row" is a set of notes put in a set order, most commonly in serialism, where each of the twelve notes of the chromatic scale are put into a row where no note is repeated until all have passed.  In this piece Schroeder uses each key of the piano exactly once, obviously allowing for repeated like pitches.  It's a neat little idea, and actually sounds like a real piece.  Here's me performing it:

~PNK