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Composer: Guy Milner Title: In Memoriam, Sir Michael Tippett Instrumentation: String Trio - Vln Vla Vlc Duration: 1-2 minutes Difficulty: Moderate to easy Technical Issues: Octave leaps in the last few bars in all parts may cause difficulty. Intonation is tricky due to serial idiom - parts of it are meant to sound consonant, around the basic chord of F,G,Bb. Programme note: The composer writes: "This short 'elegietta' is just long enough to convey a mood of memory for a composer I'd never met and didn't know all that much about. The brevity of the piece seems correct for a music student who was told he had no future as a composer and who was sent to prison because he refused to fight. Harmonically, the piece is built around a tone row, but more importance is placed on the chord F,G,Bb and its inversions, which is being played in one form or another for half of the piece - minimalism meets serialism." Availability:Composer's phone: +44 (0)1943 864577 |
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