Fili di Perle (Strings of Pearls)
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$20.00 - $150.00
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for large orchestra
Duration: 14'
Instrumentation:
Premiere: Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music - Katowice, Poland
3rd Prize, Karol Szymanowski International Composition Competition
Duration: 14'
Instrumentation:
Premiere: Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music - Katowice, Poland
3rd Prize, Karol Szymanowski International Composition Competition
Program Notes:
Fili de Perle (String of Pearls) expresses musical vitality, fluidity, pulse, and color even within the strictest harmonic and rhythmic dimensions, opening up a universe of multifaceted gestures that are inherently related through harmony and form. The music is a dance of repeated rhythms and colors: rhythmically, the piece is governed by combining pulses of three or two (3/8 time and 4/8 time) and the syncopations that result; harmonically, three sonorities are derived from stacked thirds, which when combined allow for scalar movement that resembles the octatonic scale (often referred to as a "string of pearls"). Both rhythm and harmony were created from four related motives found in an earlier composition, The God of Material Things (2015). Broader sections of music resemble motivic refrains that could be labelled as marches, waltzes, chorales, fanfares, and arabesques - all organisms that have evolved from the same rhythmic and harmonic material. Fili de Perle proceeds scherzo-like, growing and changing, until it is most fully-formed in the final climaxes, a culmination of all previous material that was assembled bead-by-bead into one continuous strand of music.
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Fili de Perle (String of Pearls) expresses musical vitality, fluidity, pulse, and color even within the strictest harmonic and rhythmic dimensions, opening up a universe of multifaceted gestures that are inherently related through harmony and form. The music is a dance of repeated rhythms and colors: rhythmically, the piece is governed by combining pulses of three or two (3/8 time and 4/8 time) and the syncopations that result; harmonically, three sonorities are derived from stacked thirds, which when combined allow for scalar movement that resembles the octatonic scale (often referred to as a "string of pearls"). Both rhythm and harmony were created from four related motives found in an earlier composition, The God of Material Things (2015). Broader sections of music resemble motivic refrains that could be labelled as marches, waltzes, chorales, fanfares, and arabesques - all organisms that have evolved from the same rhythmic and harmonic material. Fili de Perle proceeds scherzo-like, growing and changing, until it is most fully-formed in the final climaxes, a culmination of all previous material that was assembled bead-by-bead into one continuous strand of music.
Full Score