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(e)motion of forms |
| Dominik Karski |
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Year composed: 2005
Duration: 10 minutes
Instrumentation: violin
Program Notes: (e)motion of forms
six fragments for solo violin
2005
Commissioned by Elizabeth Sellars (Melbourne, Australia) with support from the Music Fund of the Australia Council of the Arts.
First performance: 27 November 2005, Melbourne, Australia.
Dedicated to Elizabeth Sellars
The fundamental idea, as represented by the title, is two-fold:
On one hand, a particular emotional, or expressive, state is what characterizes each fragment, as evident from the titles given to the fragments - these titles were added after the fragments have been written, so, expression and emotion were thought of as elements already contained within a sound-quality (and not something that pre-determines the sounding result and the form).
On the other hand, there is a motion within the form and the sound, as the fragments, being both distinct enough and yet related, can be arranged in any order so that the formal shape can be flexible; also, as the soloist moves from one fragment to the next, a journey is being undertaken through different, but somehow “parallel” micro-worlds; and finally, the building blocks of the musical material are sound-qualities that always remain within a process of transition – the unfixed and continuously evolving nature of the sound-substance is the essence of the musical language.
Also of significance is the scordatura used in this work – the 4th string is tuned down to Es, or E flat, according to Elizabeth Sellars’ initials, consequently, this low E flat plays the role of the fundamental of the work’s pitch-structure.
DK
Feb.05 Attached score(s):
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