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Ptolemy's onion

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Ptolemy's onion : amplified flute & amplified string quartet / Damien Ricketson.

by Damien Ricketson (1998)

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  • Instrumentation: Bass flute (doubling alto recorder), 2 violins, viola, violoncello (all instruments amplified).

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    Performance by Mark Knoop, Kathleen Gallagher, Bianca Porcheddu, Lisa Nihill, James Eccles, Geoffrey Gartner, George Hilgevoord from the CD Network sounds

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Ptolemy's Onion is based upon eight simple folk-like melodies. These melodies, however, are never literally heard. Rather, three 'orbiting bodies' manipulate the melodies influencing the purity or impurity of tone production, the harmonic consonance or dissonance and the general homogeneity or heterogeneity of the ensemble. As the patterns and alignments of these imaginary bodies cycle over time, they pull and shape the raw musical material like gravity.

Published by: Curious Noise — 1 score (32p. -- A4 (landscape))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 20 min.

Contents note: I. From the edge of the ninth sphere -- II. A view in -- III. Kether's path -- IV. Equant -- V. Shards and shadows -- VI. Blurring maps -- Vii. 'I wheeze'.

First performance by Spring Ensemble — 26 Sep 98. Ninth Sydney Spring International Festival of Contemporary Music, Eugene Goossens Hall, ABC Centre, Ultimo, Sydney

Winner of the Marienberg award for an 'outstanding Australian composition'. Selected for performance in the Gaudeamus International Music Week -- Composer's note.

"Revised 2005" -- T.p. verso.

Includes program note and performance directions.

Copyright held by Damien Ricketson.

"Premiered by the Spring Ensemble at the Ninth Sydney Spring International Festival of Contemporary Music, Eugene Goossens Hall, 26th September 1998, Sydney" -- T.p. verso.

This is a handwritten edition — it is not typeset.

ISMN: M-720068-00-8

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