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Performance by Four Seasons String Quartet from the CD Music from 4 to 40 Parts |
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Music from 4 to 40 Parts / Vaughan McAlley.
Library shelf no. CD 3071 [Not for loan]
$22.73
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This string quartet began with a desire to write an In nomine, a popular instrumental form from the sixteenth century. At that time it became popular to write music for viol consort based on the meane (ie. alto) part from the In nomine section of John Taverner's Missa Gloria Tibi Trinitas. With this idea, I proceeded to complete a movement for string quartet in a few days, a very short time frame for me.
With what seemed like quite a good movement completed, I decided to make the In nomine the first movement of a full-blown string quartet.
After the initial In nomine movement, the second movement is a scherzo with trios. The scherzo is in sonata form, and is interrupted by four "trios", each a variation using a different set of three players drawn from the quartet.
The third movement is a slow set of variations, and uses the rare (for me) compositional device of silence, which is slowly filled in over the variations.
The final movement is a lively set of variations with intricate and joyful polyphony. As a tribute to my daughter Eleanor (born in 2013), it is exactly 2013 semiquavers long.
Work Details
Year: 2015
Instrumentation: 2 Violins, viola, cello.
Difficulty: Advanced — Lots of counterpoint
Contents note: In nomine -- Scherzo with trios -- [Lento] -- Finale
First performance: 14 Dec 16. Library at The Dock, Docklands
Performances of this work
14 Dec 16: Library at The Dock, Docklands
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