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Trace elements

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Trace elements : any two wind & any two string instruments / Damien Ricketson.

by Damien Ricketson (2003)

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  • Instrumentation: 2 wind and 2 string instruments.

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    Performance by Ensemble Offspring from the CD Warsaw Autumn 2003

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Trace Elements is an open-scored work for any combination of two wind and two string instruments. The work took its inspiration from an ancient manuscript, the Cracow Lute Tablature, or rather, an article describing the manuscript including the cataloguing of 'unidentified genres'. Lost and forgotten musics have frequently been a creative impetus in my work. The relics of such musics - ancient manuscripts, depictions of instruments, even legends or fables about music - provide a landscape of musical ruins that are evocative to the imagination. The most striking connection between the ancient manuscript and this work is that Trace Elements is written entirely in a form of tablature: a system of musical notation that denotes physical actions not the sounding result. As such, the tablature is used as a generic form of notation that may be performed by a variety of instruments from conventional classical instruments, to archaic and non-western instruments. The sonic characteristics of Trace Elements, the timbres of the ensemble and their subsequent pitches, are therefore flexible. The work deliberately invites a multiplicity of possible interpretations. Such openness, however, is compensated with rigorous control of musical gestures. Repetitious events are presented in a syntactic-like context so as to develop a lucid structure that clearly makes the work identifiable regardless of the performing ensemble.

Published by: Curious Noise — 1 score (51p. -- A4 (landscape))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 12 mins

Commission info: Commissioned by the 46th Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music.

First performance by Ensemble Offspring — 23 Sep 03. Frederic Chopin Academy of Music, Warsaw, Poland

Includes program note and performance directions.

Typeset edition.

This edition produced Aug 05.

ISMN: M-720068-05-3

Related products

This work is also available in the following products:

Warsaw Autumn 2003
CD: Warsaw Autumn 2003 : 46th International Festival of Contemporary Music.

IAMIC concert, New Zealand, 19 June 2007
CD: IAMIC concert, New Zealand, 19 June 2007 / featuring STROMA ; conducted by Hamish McKeich.

 

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