swan_tower | Yoons and others may be interested

I need a piano icon for this, not a French horn.

Bear McCreary, composer of the utterly freaking awesome Battlestar Galactica score, has put out a book of piano sheet music for the series. It includes seventeen solos (two in both simplified and advanced forms), plus one piano duet ("Kara Remembers") and one piece for piano and soprano ("Battlestar Operatica").

A lot of really good stuff is here. "Kara Remembers." "Prelude to War." "The Shape of Things to Come." Some of my favorite pieces are missing, but they're largely the ones that don't suit themselves to the medium: "The Signal" may be Totally Badass, but it is also Totally Percussive, and would make an abysmal piano solo. Probably the only thing I really want that isn't in the book is an arrangement of "Gaeta's Lament;" you might be able to make that one work without the drums. But hey, maybe he'll put out a second book later.

I haven't yet gotten to play any of the stuff, as I lack a piano. Fortunately,

teleidoplex's new place has one! So I will report back later. The report will likely document how this book handed my ass to me; it's been fifteen years and more since I played seriously, and the look of some things in here makes me want to hide under the piano bench and wibble to myself. But I have to try. I like trying to pick pieces out by ear, but it's a lot more satisfying to play a proper arrangement.