![]() ![]() Yet if the hair is split too finely, might not the exercise become superfluous?ĭissonance is a prominent aspect of this composition, and the melodic line is quite disjunct. Should composers be faulted for attempting to make their specific intents clear to the performers? Certainly not. In them the composer explains the meaning of a few specific notational symbols he favors, while describing levels of nuance and attack that may occur more readily in the composer's mind and imagination than in the performers' ability to execute them. The rather detailed performance notes are helpful but are, at times, somewhat fussy. The composer indicates, in rather extensive performance notes, that the title refers both to the manner in which one holds the modern flute – transversely, relative to the body – and to the music itself, which "extends over diverse feelings and ideas." This seems to be an apt description for the music, which contains numerous meter changes – ninety-two within 139 measures – and frequent tempo changes – nineteen during the work's approximately seven minutes. PressĬhester Biscardi's Traverso for flute and piano results from a 1987 commission by the National Flute Association. Traverso was written just after Piano Sonata (1986 revised 1987) and was based, in part, on oiginal sketches for Piano Sonata that were never used in that work both pieces were the first works that struggled with a new way to write purely abstract, absolute instrumental music after having completed Tight-Rope, an opera in nine uninterrupted scenes (1985), based on a text by Henry Butler, with its reliance on text, characters, story, etc., in order to arrive at musical structure, form and idea. 12-13 –Īll of which are extended and intertwined into the larger structure, which, in a way, is similar to sonata-allegro form: an introduction-exposition of the three ideas development of these ideas then a recapitulation of especially the darker motive and finally a coda. Which connects into a darker, three-note motive, mm. It might be helpful when listening to this piece to know that there are three basic “themes”: an upward moving scale, mm. frequent tempo changes (19 in 7 minutes) numerous meter changes (multi-metric) – mm.92, 139. ![]()
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