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The purpose of this treatise is to introduce and discuss Victoria Bond’s keyboard works and to preserve their individual origin stories. As of February 2020, there are two piano concerti, eight unique works featuring keyboard as the only traditional instrument (several of these exist in multiple versions and/or involve an actor, narrator, or other accompanying media), and an ever-expanding host of chamber works involving piano. While the chamber works and concerti merit future study, this treatise will focus on the eight works featuring keyboard instruments as the only traditional instrument. Confusion regarding the dating of some of Bond’s pieces has already resulted in conflicting information being published in print and online. This treatise attempts to shed light on some of the most prominent cases. This current study does not, however, attempt to address all conflicting published information, but rather to provide a preliminary account of the creation of Bond’s keyboard music, describe her approach to writing these works, and generally to provide information that would be of interest to performers, audiences, or future researchers before source information and oral history are lost.
