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23 lines
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title: Capriccioso
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slug: capriccioso
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instrumentation: For recorder, violin, and harp.
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shortInfo: 'Commissioned by <em>Musaics of the Bay</em> and <em>Miniatures: Mauritshuis</em>.'
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date: 2021-11-01
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categories:
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- Chamber
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Capriccioso is a musical response to Carel Fabritius’ 1654 painting _The Goldfinch_,
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as well as the history surrounding the painting itself.
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Generally, the music is meant to evoke the playfulness of the small bird in the painting.
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It is a stylish but silly bird: complicated, sparkling harmonies appear from the very
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beginning of the music, and short, pointy melodic ideas abound as I imagined
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the bird hopping around its home.
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However, as the work evolved, I had two competing yet somehow related ideas in my mind:
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the first of the painter’s tragic death in the gunpowder explosion in Delft the same
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year the painting was completed, and the second of the bird losing its chain and flying
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away in escape. This brought about music with a mysterious, foreboding character, and in
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the end music for the bird miraculously taking off in flight.
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