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CD
Music to see through / music by David Chesworth ; performed and enhanced by David Chesworth Ensemble.
Library shelf no. CD 1614 [Available for loan]
Score
Panopticon : for marimba, vibes, piano, bass and improvising instruments / David Chesworth.
Library shelf no. 785.3814/CHE 1 [Available for loan]
Work Overview
Panopticon was sketched out in my final year of undergraduate study at Latrobe University in 1979. Up to that point I had been exposed to a lot of music by experimental composers and the American minimalists but was now getting a sobering dose of late modernism via the European serialists. We had been studying Allen Forte's set theory in class which provided a way of analyzing non-tonal music by grouping notes which shared certain relationships into pitch class sets. I decided to apply his analytical ideas to the creation of a piece of music. When I'd sketched the piece out, I discovered that I had written music that made great use of fourths, fifths and octaves. This was quite different to the musical language we were studying at the time, which avoided consonant intervals like the plague and instead made great use of the more dissonant tritone and minor ninth intervals.
Work Details
Year: 1979
Instrumentation: Marimba, vibraphone, piano, bass guitar and optional improvising instruments.
Duration: 10 min.
Difficulty: Advanced
First performance: by David Chesworth Ensemble — 1994. The Continental Cafe, Melbourne
Winner of Australian Music Centre/APRA Instrumental Work of the Year Award 2006.
Awards & Prizes
| Year | Award | Placing | Awarded for/to |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | Classical Music Awards - Instrumental Work of the Year | Winner | David Chesworth |
Analysis
Program note: David Chesworth's "Panopticon"
program note by the composer
Performances of this work
1994: The Continental Cafe, Melbourne. Featuring David Chesworth Ensemble.
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