Waltz Apparition

2018
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Chamber Works

Details

Category

Chamber Works

librettist

WordS by

instrumentation

Clarinet in Bb, Violin, and Piano

duration

5'

commissioned by

Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival

premiered by

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The waltz is a wonderfully evocative topos in classical music. From masterworks in its genre to deconstructions of Ravel to Ligeti, its lilting rhythms call to mind a rich array of references and musical worlds. This pieces features the incessant repetition of a three-note figure which could have plucked out of a waltz. The music develops as if trying to burst into a rich waltz but unable to, searching for some kind of musical resolution through a tense, acute sense of anticipation which builds and builds. The result is the ghost of a waltz, a waltz apparition.

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Waltz Apparition

Purchase Score
duration

5'

instrumentation

Clarinet in Bb, Violin, and Piano

premiered by

commissioned by

Lake Champlain Chamber Music Festival

Waltz Apparition

The waltz is a wonderfully evocative topos in classical music. From masterworks in its genre to deconstructions of Ravel to Ligeti, its lilting rhythms call to mind a rich array of references and musical worlds. This pieces features the incessant repetition of a three-note figure which could have plucked out of a waltz. The music develops as if trying to burst into a rich waltz but unable to, searching for some kind of musical resolution through a tense, acute sense of anticipation which builds and builds. The result is the ghost of a waltz, a waltz apparition.

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