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Impressions of Contentment
Impressions of Contentment
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - SKU: A0.828441 Composed by David M. Combs. Arranged by Gary Prim. Concert,New Age,Pop. Score. 8 pages. DAVID M COMBS #6426177. Pu...
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Piano Solo - Level 3 - SKU: A0.828441 Composed by David M. Combs. Arranged by Gary Prim. Concert,New Age,Pop. Score. 8 pages. DAVID M COMBS #6426177. Published by DAVID M COMBS (A0.828441). Impressions of Contentment is the second song on the Discover Tranquility album composed by Dave Combs and arranged and performed by Gary Prim. This sheet music is an exact, note-for-note transcription of Gary's arrangement as performed on the album. Play the sample audio to hear the entire first page of this song as you preview the sheet music.
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Impressions of Contentment
Impressions of Contentment
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Gary Prim
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Impressions of Contentment
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Piano - Level 3 - SKU: A0.1105435 By Gary Prim. By DAVID M COMBS. Arranged by Gary Prim. Contemporary,New Age,Pop. Full Performance. Duration 347. DAVID...
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Piano - Level 3 - SKU: A0.1105435 By Gary Prim. By DAVID M COMBS. Arranged by Gary Prim. Contemporary,New Age,Pop. Full Performance. Duration 347. DAVID M COMBS #708672. Published by DAVID M COMBS (A0.1105435). The sheet music is an exact transcription of this recording.
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Impressions For Organ
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Song List (10) Antiphon Soliloquy Carillon A Solemn Song promenade Psalm Sketch The Rhythmic Trumpet Fantasia on Old Hundredth Sortie Aria In The Style Of A Reverie Reviews Don't miss out! Access exclusive content and coupons, and be the first to know about new releases
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: Antiphon Soliloquy Carillon A Solemn Song promenade Psalm Sketch The Rhythmic Trumpet Fantasia on Old Hundredth Sortie Aria In The Style Of A Reverie
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Suite Romántica
Suite Romántica
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José Antonio Guerrero Ortiz
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Suite Romántica
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Solo Guitar - Level 5 - SKU: A0.1031081 Composed by José Antonio Guerrero Ortiz. Contemporary. Individual part. 32 pages. Bergmann Editions #2897713....
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Solo Guitar - Level 5 - SKU: A0.1031081 Composed by José Antonio Guerrero Ortiz. Contemporary. Individual part. 32 pages. Bergmann Editions #2897713. Published by Bergmann Editions (A0.1031081). Suite Romantica by José Antonio Guerrero OrtizSuite Romantica is a work that musically describes a traveler’s journey through Spain and its many cultural and historical sites. This picturesque and musical adventure was inspired by sights such as the Fuente De La Cibeles water fountain in Madrid, the fields of the countryside, historic Roman streets, and the Flamenco roots ingrained in AndalucÃa. Each of the movements are musical impressions of traveling throughout the old rural areas and modern urban landscapes of Spain.Length: 32 pages (25 with music)Content:Fantasia-Preludio (La Cibeles de Fuego y Sensualidad) Zapateado (Caminos Por Las Calles y Campos) Pastoral (Un Corazón Arietta de Julio, Joaquina y La Niña En El Vestido Azul)Pequeña Danza (La Delicada y Alegrias de La Flamenquita) Rapsodia Romántica (Dos Corazones Entre La Luna y Sus Gotas de Aqua)
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Violin Sonata in D minor
Violin Sonata in D minor
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Pedram Babaiee
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Violin Sonata in D minor
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Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano,Violin - Level 4 - SKU: A0.1032496 Composed by Pedram Babaiee. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. Score and pa...
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Instrumental Duet Instrumental Duet,Piano,Violin - Level 4 - SKU: A0.1032496 Composed by Pedram Babaiee. 20th Century,Concert,Contemporary. Score and parts. 45 pages. Pedram Babaiee #4852151. Published by Pedram Babaiee (A0.1032496). Violin Sonata in D minor is the first violin sonata composed by Pedram Babaiee for violin and piano in three movements. The style of this work’s composition is considered to be minimal music with impressions from the post-romantic era, featuring Pedram Babaiee’s unique characteristics in music. The basic material of Violin Sonata in D minor was written in 2018 and Pedram Babaiee finished writing it in May 2019 and dedicated it to Mona Abbassi.Pedram Babaiee’s music is usually recognized by its characteristics of form and content, in harmony; Vague texture-based tonal phrases contrasted with straight-forward melodies, unusual time signatures and harmonizing western classical music with his unique touch of Persian traditional music harmonic progressions. He is mostly dedicated to writing for chamber ensembles -trio, quartet, quintet, etc.- and solo instruments.Violin Sonata no.1 in D minor
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Shulamith
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Enjott Schneider
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Cello and organ - intermediate to advanced - SKU: S9.Q11388 Danses sacrées. Composed by Enjott Schneider. This edition: Sheet music. Downloada...
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Cello and organ - intermediate to advanced - SKU: S9.Q11388 Danses sacrées. Composed by Enjott Schneider. This edition: Sheet music. Downloadable. Duration 12 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q11388. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q11388). The 'Song of Songs' or 'Song of Solomon' addressed to Sulamith and ascribed to Solomon is one of the most mysterious texts of the Bible. If the character of Solomon itself is enigmatic, the character of the 'bride' is even more enigmatic. Saint Augustine and many other exegetes regarded this brilliant fireworks of the senses as an allegory of the mystic union of the soul with God while others recognized Arabian wedding rites or, in terms of cult and mythology, the union of the old deities Ishtar and Tammuz. The Gospel according to St. John draws many parallels to Maria Magdalena and the resurrection of Christ. One of the latest interpretations can be found in Paul Celan's poem 'Death Fugue' in which Sulamith embodies the prototype of the Jewish victim. All these mysterious facets are incorporated in the form of the 'Danse sacrée' in which the physicality of dancing seems to be contradictory to an existential content. An impressive composition for violoncello and piano.
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Vater unser
Vater unser
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Alwin Michael Schronen
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Vater unser
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Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella - easy - SKU: S9.Q47744 Schrobenhausener Vater unser. Composed by Alwin Michael Schronen. This edition: choral scor...
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Mixed choir (SATB) a cappella - easy - SKU: S9.Q47744 Schrobenhausener Vater unser. Composed by Alwin Michael Schronen. This edition: choral score. Schott Choral Music. Downloadable, choral score. Duration 2' 10. Schott Music - Digital #Q47744. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q47744). German.Alwin Michael Schronen has become a fixture in the German choral music scene in the last few years due to his lively, expressive and at the same time down-to-earth compositional style (not only). And his father, our four-part mixed choir a cappella, also provides an impressive example of his art of intimately, intensively and at the same time believingly translating the substantial text content of the central prayer of Christians. This setting is due to its brevity and musical catchiness ideal for liturgical use. A charming special feature of this sacred a cappella work is the simple interjection Our Father, repeated six times and harmonized at the same time, through which the individual passages of the Lord's Prayer are broken. This can be sung by the congregation or a small group either unanimously or by several choral groups from different positions in the church. A truly fascinating and heartfelt sound experience to which community and choir can contribute together!
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Veni, Creator Spiritus
Veni, Creator Spiritus
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Bertold Hummel
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Veni, Creator Spiritus
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Medium voice and organ - difficult - SKU: S9.Q24706 For medium voice and organ. Composed by Bertold Hummel. This edition: single sheet. Downloada...
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Medium voice and organ - difficult - SKU: S9.Q24706 For medium voice and organ. Composed by Bertold Hummel. This edition: single sheet. Downloadable, Separate edition. Op. 103g. Duration 9 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q24706. Published by Schott Music - Digital (S9.Q24706). Latin.The rushing of the Holy Spirit to which the hymn 'Veni creator' refers is symbolized by fast semiquaver runs of the organ which return again and again during the whole piece. Alternately, the text is interpreted musically in seven verses according to the respective content. Traditional melodies appear in a contemporary harmonic makeup. From this context emerges a field of tension between old and new which eventually dissolves in the 'Amen' of the vocal soloist. The work on the rather demanding piece is rewarding for every performer and the performance at the church is very impressive.
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What I Did For Love
What I Did For Love
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Jazz Ensemble
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Edward Kleban and Marvin Hamli
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Terry Vosbein
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What I Did For Love
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Jazz Ensemble Jazz Ensemble - Level 4 - SKU: A0.1396334 Composed by Edward Kleban and Marvin Hamlisch. Arranged by Terry Vosbein. Broadway,Jazz,Musical/...
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Jazz Ensemble Jazz Ensemble - Level 4 - SKU: A0.1396334 Composed by Edward Kleban and Marvin Hamlisch. Arranged by Terry Vosbein. Broadway,Jazz,Musical/Show. 48 pages. Max Frank Music #979709. Published by Max Frank Music (A0.1396334). Experience â??What I Did For Loveâ? like never before with this new big band arrangement inspired by the legendary Stan Kenton. This slow ballad from the classic musical â??A Chorus Lineâ? takes on new life with the rich textures and dynamic energy of a full big band.The arrangement opens with a haunting piano introduction, setting the mood for a heartfelt performance. As the arrangement slowly builds, the alto saxophone takes center stage with a soulful improvised solo, adding a personal touch to the familiar melody. As it reaches its climax, the band explodes with big fat and loud chords that soar to new heights.With its blend of traditional big band elements and emotional harmonic content, this arrangement of â??What I Did For Loveâ? is sure to captivate audiences and leave a lasting impression. Donâ??t miss the opportunity to experience this timeless classic in a whole new way.Instrumentation: 5 saxes (AATTB), 5 trumpets, 4 trombones, tuba, piano, guitar, bass, drums.
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Balta ainava
Balta ainava
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Piano solo
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Peteris Vasks
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Balta ainava
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Piano - intermediate - (White Scenery (Winter)). Composed by Peteris Vasks (1946-). This edition: single sheet. Downloadable. Duration 7 minutes. Sc...
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Piano - intermediate - (White Scenery (Winter)). Composed by Peteris Vasks (1946-). This edition: single sheet. Downloadable. Duration 7 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q12485. Published by Schott Music - Digital
Peteris Vasks occupies a special position in the circle of Baltic composers. He is not only the most significant and popular composer ever to come out of Latvia. he always speaks to his listeners with a fervent intensity that seems to point to something higher. This higher aspect is without a doubt something that stands above the world of humanity but is also present within each person: divine nature.
"I am deeply rooted in nature, in the nature of the North. It influences all of my music. The nature we know is also quite various. we have four very distinct seasons. The winter is very long, the summer very short and therefore all the more beautiful and longed for. The seasons in between are quite dramatic."
The first of Peteris Vasks's Seasons pieces was not written with the intention of forming a complete cycle. For his friend, Talivaldis Deksnis, he composed in 1980 Balta ainava - White Landscape (Winter), in 1981 Rudens muzika - Autumn Music, and in 1995 the Pavasara muzika - Spring Music. In 2008, Zala ainava - Green Landscape (Summer) came into being, the piece which completed the cycle.
In 2009, as a kind of "encore", Vasks wrote Vasaras vakara muzika - Music for a Summer Evening based on old sketches. this, of all the pieces, is the one most anchored in tradition. Only the two newest pieces - both of which have to do with summer - have a fixed metrical structure. The three earlier works are metrically free, notated without bar lines, which gives them an improvisatory character.
Vasks says of the individual pieces in the cycle: "In Balta ainava everything is white. A new year begins. It is a quiet meditation, a new beginning, with only two themes.
Pavasara muzika. Quasi una Sonata - the most demanding piece in this cycle - is intense, an impressive development. Spring comes slowly, with much drama. It is like a battle, until it is simply there. This multi-faceted piece, with its bird songs, lives from conflicts and dramatic intensification and ends in ecstatic rapture. Zala ainava is based on two themes. Our summer is very brief and offers a respite after the battles. And it is so beautiful! The music reflects joy and contentment. The first theme brings a kind of pure energy. the second is more devoted to tone painting. At the end, a five-note quotation from a well-known Latvian folksong about a drunkard is heard.
Rudens muzika begins pianissimo on a quiet September day, in a peaceful, sunny atmosphere. Now the autumn storms sweep over the land. a gentle sadness settles on the people and on nature, which surrenders its splendor. After a last great storm, the snow comes again as a symbol of purified conclusion and a new beginning. Vasaras vakara muzika takes place at the quiet end of a summer day. The sun sets. Slowness. Memories of previous experiences surface. With the memories' appearance comes an increase in intensity. Towards the end, a kind of folksong is heard: 'We have survived the time of tyranny and retained our identity'. The ending is quiet, everything is asleep."
Christoph Schluren
Translation: John Patrick Thomas and W. Richard Rieves
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Concerto
Concerto
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Piano and Orchestra
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Gyorgy Ligeti
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Concerto
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Piano and orchestra - difficult - For piano and orchestra. Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006). This edition: solo part. Downloadable. Duration 24 minut...
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Piano and orchestra - difficult - For piano and orchestra. Composed by Gyorgy Ligeti (1923-2006). This edition: solo part. Downloadable. Duration 24 minutes. Schott Music - Digital #Q53630. Published by Schott Music - Digital
I composed the Piano Concerto in two stages: the first three movements during the years 1985-86, the next two in 1987, the final autograph of the last movement was ready by January, 1988. The concerto is dedicated to the American conductor Mario di Bonaventura. .
The markings of the movements are the following: .
1. Vivace molto ritmico e preciso .
2. Lento e deserto .
3. Vivace cantabile .
4. Allegro risoluto .
5. Presto luminoso.
The first performance of the three-movement Concerto was on October 23rd, 1986 in Graz. Mario di Bonaventura conducted while his brother, Anthony di Bonaventura, was the soloist. Two days later the performance was repeated in the Vienna Konzerthaus. After hearing the work twice, I came to the conclusion that the third movement is not an adequate finale. my feeling of form demanded continuation, a supplement. That led to the composing of the next two movements. The premiere of the whole cycle took place on February 29th, 1988, in the Vienna Konzerthaus with the same conductor and the same pianist. .
The orchestra consisted of the following: flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, tenor trombone, percussion and strings. The flautist also plays the piccoIo, the clarinetist, the alto ocarina. The percussion is made up of diverse instruments, which one musician-virtuoso can play. It is more practical, however, if two or three musicians share the instruments. Besides traditional instruments the percussion part calls also for two simple wind instruments: the swanee whistle and the harmonica. The string instrument parts (two violins, viola, cello and doubles bass) can be performed soloistic since they do not contain divisi. For balance, however, the ensemble playing is recommended, for example 6-8 first violins, 6-8 second, 4-6 violas, 4-6 cellos, 3-4 double basses. .
In the Piano Concerto I realized new concepts of harmony and rhythm. .
The first movement is entirely written in bimetry: simultaneously 12/8 and 4/4 (8/8). This relates to the known triplet on a doule relation and in itself is nothing new. Because, however, I articulate 12 triola and 8 duola pulses, an entangled, up till now unheard kind of polymetry is created. The rhythm is additionally complicated because of asymmetric groupings inside two speed layers, which means accents are asymmetrically distributed. These groups, as in the talea technique, have a fixed, continuously repeating rhythmic structures of varying lengths in speed layers of 12/8 and 4/4. This means that the repeating pattern in the 12/8 level and the pattern in the 4/4 level do not coincide and continuously give a kaleidoscope of renewing combinations. .
In our perception we quickly resign from following particular rhythmical successions and that what is going on in time appears for us as something static, resting. This music, if it is played properly, in the right tempo and with the right accents inside particular layers, after a certain time rises, as it were, as a plane after taking off: the rhythmic action, too complex to be able to follow in detail, begins flying. This diffusion of individual structures into a different global structure is one of my basic compositional concepts: from the end of the fifties, from the orchestral works Apparitions and Atmospheres I continuously have been looking for new ways of resolving this basic question. The harmony of the first movement is based on mixtures, hence on the parallel leading of voices. This technique is used here in a rather simple form. later in the fourth movement it will be considerably developed. .
The second movement (the only slow one amongst five movements) also has a talea type of structure, it is however much simpler rhythmically, because it contains only one speed layer. The melody is consisted in the development of a rigorous interval mode in which two minor seconds and one major second alternate therefore nine notes inside an octave. This mode is transposed into different degrees and it also determines the harmony of the movement. however, in closing episode in the piano part there is a combination of diatonics (white keys) and pentatonics (black keys) led in brilliant, sparkling quasimixtures, while the orchestra continues to play in the nine tone mode. .
In this movement I used isolated sounds and extreme registers (piccolo in a very low register, bassoon in a very high register, canons played by the swanee whistle, the alto ocarina and brass with a harmon-mute' damper, cutting sound combinations of the piccolo, clarinet and oboe in an extremely high register, also alternating of a whistle-siren and xylophone). The third movement also has one speed layer and because of this it appears as simpler than the first, but actually the rhythm is very complicated in a different way here. Above the uninterrupted, fast and regular basic pulse, thanks to the asymmetric distribution of accents, different types of hemiolas and inherent melodical patterns appear (the term was coined by Gerhard Kubik in relation to central African music). If this movement is played with the adequate speed and with very clear accentuation, illusory rhythmic-melodical figures appear. These figures are not played directly. they do not appear in the score, but exist only in our perception as a result of co-operation of different voices. .
Already earlier I had experimented with illusory rhythmics, namely in Poeme symphonique for 100 metronomes (1962), in Continuum for harpsichord (1968), in Monument for two pianos (1976), and especially in the first and sixth piano etude Desordre and Automne a Varsovie (1985). .
The third movement of the Piano Concerto is up to now the clearest example of illusory rhythmics and illusory melody. In intervallic and chordal structure this movement is based on alternation, and also inter-relation of various modal and quasi-equidistant harmony spaces. The tempered twelve-part division of the octave allows for diatonical and other modal interval successions, which are not equidistant, but are based on the alternation of major and minor seconds in different groups. The tempered system also allows for the use of the anhemitonic pentatonic scale (the black keys of the piano). From equidistant scales, therefore interval formations which are based on the division of an octave in equal distances, the twelve-tone tempered system allows only chromatics (only minor seconds) and the six-tone scale (the whole-tone: only major seconds). .
Moreover, the division of the octave into four parts only minor thirds) and three parts (three major thirds) is possible. In several music cultures different equidistant divisions of an octave are accepted, for example, in the Javanese slendro into five parts, in Melanesia into seven parts, popular also in southeastern Asia, and apart from this, in southern Africa. This does not mean an exact equidistance: there is a certain tolerance for the inaccurateness of the interval tuning. .
These exotic for us, Europeans, harmony and melody have attracted me for several years. However I did not want to re-tune the piano (microtone deviations appear in the concerto only in a few places in the horn and trombone parts led in natural tones). After the period of experimenting, I got to pseudo- or quasiequidistant intervals, which is neither whole-tone nor chromatic: in the twelve-tone system, two whole-tone scales are possible, shifted a minor second apart from each other. Therefore, I connect these two scales (or sound resources), and for example, places occur where the melodies and figurations in the piano part are created from both whole tone scales. in one band one six-tone sound resource is utilized, and in the other hand, the complementary. In this way whole-tonality and chromaticism mutually reduce themselves: a type of deformed equidistancism is formed, strangely brilliant and at the same time slanting. illusory harmony, indeed being created inside the tempered twelve-tone system, but in sound quality not belonging to it anymore. .
The appearance of such slantedequidistant harmony fields alternating with modal fields and based on chords built on fifths (mainly in the piano part), complemented with mixtures built on fifths in the orchestra, gives this movement an individual, soft-metallic colour (a metallic sound resulting from harmonics). .
The fourth movement was meant to be the central movement of the Concerto. Its melodc-rhythmic elements (embryos or fragments of motives) in themselves are simple. The movement also begins simply, with a succession of overlapping of these elements in the mixture type structures. Also here a kaleidoscope is created, due to a limited number of these elements - of these pebbles in the kaleidoscope - which continuously return in augmentations and diminutions. .
Step by step, however, so that in the beginning we cannot hear it, a compiled rhythmic organization of the talea type gradually comes into daylight, based on the simultaneity of two mutually shifted to each other speed layers (also triplet and duoles, however, with different asymmetric structures than in the first movement). While longer rests are gradually filled in with motive fragments, we slowly come to the conclusion that we have found ourselves inside a rhythmic-melodical whirl: without change in tempo, only through increasing the density of the musical events, a rotation is created in the stream of successive and compiled, augmented and diminished motive fragments, and increasing the density suggests acceleration. .
Thanks to the periodical structure of the composition, always new but however of the same (all the motivic cells are similar to earlier ones but none of them are exactly repeated. the general structure is therefore self-similar), an impression is created of a gigantic, indissoluble network. Also, rhythmic structures at first hidden gradually begin to emerge, two independent speed layers with their various internal accentuations. .
This great, self-similar whirl in a very indirect way relates to musical associations, which came to my mind while watching the graphic projection of the mathematical sets of Julia and of Mandelbrot made with the help of a computer. I saw these wonderful pictures of fractal creations, made by scientists from Brema, Peitgen and Richter, for the first time in 1984. From that time they have played a great role in my musical concepts. This does not mean, however, that composing the fourth movement I used mathematical methods or iterative calculus. indeed, I did use constructions which, however, are not based on mathematical thinking, but are rather craftman's constructions (in this respect, my attitude towards mathematics is similar to that of the graphic artist Maurits Escher). .I am concerned rather with intuitional, poetic, synesthetic correspondence, not on the scientific, but on the poetic level of thinking. .
The fifth, very short Presto movement is harmonically very simple, but all the more complicated in its rhythmic structure: it is based on the further development of ''inherent patterns of the third movement. The quasi-equidistance system dominates harmonically and melodically in this movement, as in the third, alternating with harmonic fields, which are based on the division of the chromatic whole into diatonics and anhemitonic pentatonics. Polyrhythms and harmonic mixtures reach their greatest density, and at the same time this movement is strikingly light, enlightened with very bright colours: at first it seems chaotic, but after listening to it for a few times it is easy to grasp its content: many autonomous but self-similar figures which crossing themselves. .
I present my artistic credo in the Piano Concerto: I demonstrate my independence from criteria of the traditional avantgarde, as well as the fashionable postmodernism. Musical illusions which I consider to be also so important are not a goal in itself for me, but a foundation for my aesthetical attitude. I prefer musical forms which have a more object-like than processual character. Music as frozen time, as an object in imaginary space evoked by music in our imagination, as a creation which really develops in time, but in imagination it exists simultaneously in all its moments. The spell of time, the enduring its passing by, closing it in a moment of the present is my main intention as a composer. .
(Gyorgy Ligeti)
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