From the composer’s own words:
Bead Rock is the third movement of my Piano Sonata No. 3 ’Mondana’; also it may be performed as a standalone concert piece, and I encourage pianists to play it in that way.
The title is a play on words, and refers to a spherical jewel like a pearl, but also refers to the main motif (which comprises the notes B, E, A, D) and Rock as a musical genre. The composition was influenced by George Gershwin, Jelly Roll Morton, Jerry Lee Lewis, Nikolai Kapustin and Keith Emerson, and it includes a funny quote from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Italian Concerto. The jazzy style
... of this piece may be defined as avant-garde, crossover, free-jazz, fusion, modern creative, third stream or jazz-rock. The tempo indication is ’veloce con veemenza’ (vehemently fast).
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