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November 2016, East Carolina University School of Music, Greenville, NC
Julia Den Boer
Melodia is an extended, digressive rumination on the basic idea of melody, towards which the title points. The Latin and Greek roots (melodia—melÅidia) have vocal implications: chanting, singing, song. But how to make the piano, that most percussive of instruments, sing? This question hung in the air throughout the process of composing as I focused on touch (articulation), line and pedaling to investigate the melodic. When harmony eventually emerges, it is simply a byproduct of melody resonating against itself. Certain slightly archaic procedures (e.g. canon, imitation) lead to more polyphonic textures, some gentle, others quite violent, before the piece collapses back into the simple focus on melody alone with which it began.
Melodia was written for Julia Den Boer, to whom it is warmly dedicated.
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