the dissonances
for alto flautist, violinist, pianist
daryl jamieson
Premièred by mmm... on 3 October 2013 at the Suginami Public Hall.
the dissonances for alto flautist, violinist, pianist Duration:
25 minutes
アルトフルート奏者とヴァイオリニストとピアニストのために :
Programme Note Before I came to Japan in 2006, I tended to write slow music, spacious music. Perhaps naïvely and stereotypically, I expected Japan would be a place which nurtured my tendencies toward quietness and stasis. Tokyo, however, is almost never quiet or still; even areas of dense greenery away from the noise of humanity one is still subjected to the scream of insects. So, rather than pursuing quietude, over the past seven years my music has progressed through various phases, all of them incorporating some aspect of controlled noisiness and busyness. This piece, however, is quiet, slow, and long; it returns to my roots, but with considerably more understanding and appreciation of quietness than I had before. the dissonances looks back to my past with the intent to combine my previous aesthetic approach with all I have learned in the past seven years. It is conceived as a set of cyclical variations. Its 108 measures could be divided into groups of 6, 18, and 36 measures, each of those groupings representing a change in timbre, rhythm, or pitch.
Performance Note
• Time is extremely free and as slow as possible with the contraint that the musicians’ breath be the measure of all the bracketed sections. For example, quavers in one measure are not equal to quavers in the next; however, quavers should always be shorter than crotchets and longer than semi-quavers. • Accidentals with arrows indicates a microtonal inflection of approximately ⅙ of a tone. It is always less than a quarter-tone. Other than that, each musician should use their ear to decide the size of the inflection. • son filé (violin, section 11) means: place an extreme amount of pressure on the bow, allowing only a few grains of sound at a time to sound.
FULL SCORE in C
the dissonances daryl jamieson
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