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27 lines
1.3 KiB
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title: Movement
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slug: movement
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instrumentation: For violin and piano.
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premiere: April 12, 2013, at St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota.
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recordings:
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Audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rMnuC-TNdGU
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date: 2013-04-01
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categories:
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- Chamber
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This piece was written for my dear friend Seiji Cataldo. After having had many opportunities
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to hear his fine playing, I became inspired to write a work for him, and this is the product.
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In this work, I appealed to his strong, sensitive, and charismatic playing style with bright,
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agile lines and a plethora of multiple stops, but also with smooth, lyrical tunes and delicate
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harmonics.
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The movement is cast in a sonata form. The piece begins with a fanfare-like rhythm,
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which gives way to a background of colorful tertian harmony. The violin enters with the first theme,
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declamatory in character and with a strong tritone. A harmonically adventurous transition brings
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the music to the second theme, a lyrical tune with octatonic suave. A slow development with
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omnipresent off-beat pulses follows, and eventually the music arrives at the recapitulation.
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Both themes are heard again, finally arriving in the original key.
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This work was premiered by Seiji Cataldo and Jesse Brault at Urness Recital Hall,
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St. Olaf College, on April 12, 2013.
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