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My 3rd String Quartet is in six contrasted movements. Certain musical figures recur across the work, but there are few themes as such. The main emphasis is on contrast of mood, texture, harmony, pacing and timing. Unlike many of my works this quartet had no extra-musical inspiration, and in principle should have no subtitle.
Certain features already present in my music became more prominent in this new work: modes (limited collections of pitches) have always helped me to focus musical character, but here a sense of key note for each mode became much more pronounced, as did the difference between modes for each section of the work.
A sort of hybrid key-system emerged (even with equivalents of major and minor) which is not normal tonality, nor does it aim to imitate it. Unlike tonality this key-system includes noises, extended performance techniques and intervals outside Western tuning as available resources. What I hope it does is to focus the listening experience onto different musical areas, to encourage a sense of both modulation from one area to another and to give the music a sense of goal.
No conscious knowledge of this is needed when listening: the music should communicate directly on its own.
Here, then, is this collection of six musical colours, related and unrelated, different yet belonging together, variable yet in a set order. Hence the subtitle, chosen both for both its sound and its sense: ‘hana no hanataba’ meaning, in Japanese, ‘bouquet of flowers’.
A brief description:
1) Moderately fast. Short droplets of sounds gather increasing momentum.
2) Very fast. Canons and bells at different speeds.
3) Very slow – fast – very slow – very fast – very slow. The main slow movement and its main scherzo. An emphasis on non-tempered tunings and on inhaling and exhaling waves of sound. The slow sections feature florid melodic writing. In the exuberant scherzo competing duos and trios create imaginary folk music.
4) Extremely fast/extremely slow. Open strings and harmonics fuse into a single string instrument – like a sort of large resonating Medieval tromba marina.
5) Very fast. A variation on movement 2). Variation, Schoenberg told Cage, is just a sort of repetition ‘with some things changed and others not.’
6) Slow - Very Fast - Fast – Slow. The opening calm harmonies and florid melodies evoke movement 3) in different music. The fast part features one overt theme: a fanfare-like call to attention which is subject to extensive development. There is much use of non-Western tuning. At its climax the music freezes into a frieze – a wall of sound standing in front of the audience with increasing obstinacy and certainty as the work grinds towards its cadence.
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Titel:
String Quartet No. 3
‘hana no hanataba’
Schwierigkeitsgrad:
schwer
Verlag/Label:
Schott Music
Kompositionsjahr:
2017 - 2018
Spieldauer:
23 ′
Uraufführung:
11. April 2018 · London (UK)
Wigmore Hall
JACK Quartet
Wigmore Hall
JACK Quartet
Auftragswerk:
Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation; and the Tanglewood Music Center with generous support from the Harriett Eckstein New Commissions Fund
Reihe:
Titel:
String Quartet No. 3
‘hana no hanataba’
Schwierigkeitsgrad:
schwer
Verlag/Label:
Schott Music
Kompositionsjahr:
2017 - 2018
Spieldauer:
23 ′
Uraufführung:
11. April 2018 · London (UK)
Wigmore Hall
JACK Quartet
Wigmore Hall
JACK Quartet
Auftragswerk:
Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation; and the Tanglewood Music Center with generous support from the Harriett Eckstein New Commissions Fund
Reihe:
Titel:
String Quartet No. 3
‘hana no hanataba’
Schwierigkeitsgrad:
schwer
Verlag/Label:
Schott Music
Kompositionsjahr:
2017 - 2018
Spieldauer:
23 ′
Uraufführung:
11. April 2018 · London (UK)
Wigmore Hall
JACK Quartet
Wigmore Hall
JACK Quartet
Auftragswerk:
Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall, with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grant-making foundation; and the Tanglewood Music Center with generous support from the Harriett Eckstein New Commissions Fund
Reihe:
Technische Details
Bestellnummer:
ED 13989
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3808-9
Bestellnummer:
ED 13989
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3808-9
UPC:
842819101086
Gewicht:
0,54 kg
Seiten:
148
Format:
23,1cm x 30,3cm
Bindung:
Rückendrahtheftung
Bestellnummer:
ED 13989 Q771471
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3808-9
Seiten:
137
Format:
23,1cm x 30,3cm
Dateiformat:
(PDF / 8,78 MB)
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Movements 1, 2, 3, 6
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8. August 2023 |
La Roque d'Antheron (Frankreich) , Marcel Pagnol Center Auditorium
Excerpts
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