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Four pieces for accordion and string quartet
RSN:
59681
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Composition Date:
2003
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Revision Date:
N/A
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Duration:
00:20:00
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Cataloguing Information
Call Number
MI 8505 G38fo
Genre
Mixed Chamber Ensembles (1 to 9 Performers), Quintets, Keyboard(s) / Bowed String(s)
Material Type
Print-music
Acquisition Date
2008-08-01
Library Collection Publisher / Label
Unpublished, printed by CMC / Inédit, imprimé par le CMC
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Additional Information
accordion, string quartet
Master Location
Toronto
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Physical Description
Found 1 record(s)
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Extent of Item
1 score (35 p.) + 5 parts ; 32 cm.
Instrumentation
Found 4 record(s)
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Set No.
Category
Instrument
Number
31025
Other
Accordion
1
31025
Strings, bowed
Violin
2
31025
Strings, bowed
Viola
1
31025
Strings, bowed
Violoncello
1
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Divided
No
Solo
No
Premiere
23/01/2004 Walter Hall, University of Toronto Toronto Accordion: Alexander Sevastian, Violin I: Mary-Beth Brown, Violin II: Katarina Kin, Viola: Alex McLeod, Violoncello: Kirk Starkey Conductor: Aaron Gervais
See Also
60210, Four pieces for accordion and string quartet, AR2508, Aaron Gervais, 00:20:58
Four Pieces for Accordion and String Quartet was written between the summer of 2002 and the fall of 2003. It was inspired by a series of poems called Swerve, by Canadian poet Sarah Patricia Lang. There are four poems in the series, which tell the story of a woman watching her lover die of cancer. Four Pieces is dedicated to my grandmother, Antoinette Schulte, who was an accordionist and died of cancer when I was a child. What interested me about Swerve was the sensation of the passage of time conveyed by the narrator's emotions. I felt this had strong correlations with musical form, and I wanted to try to translate the emotional form of Lang's series into an instrumental piece. Therefore, each poem in the set corresponds to a movement in Four Pieces, and each movement closely follows the content of the corresponding poem in Swerve. Four Pieces was also my first successful attempt at the purposeful juxtaposition of disparate harmonic systems. I wanted to be able to draw from a palette of functional and non-functional sonorities ranging from popular music and jazz, to medieval, classical, and twentieth-century Western music. I achieved this goal by placing harmonic and melodic ideas in new local contexts or by using the function of one harmonic system with the material from another. Examples include the ostinato 6/3 chord in the first movement, transposed up a quartertone, and the functional cadence that ends the piece, disguised by dense pitch clusters and non-triadic sonorities.
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Calgary
04CA59681
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1
Montréal
03MO59681
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1
Calgary
03CA59681
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1
Vancouver
06VA59681
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1
Montréal
04MO59681
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1
Vancouver
02VA59681
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1
Vancouver
03VA59681
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1
Vancouver
01VA59681
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1
Toronto
06TO59681
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1
Montréal
01MO59681
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1
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