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New York Notes
- Instrumentation
- fl,cl,vn,vc,p,pf
- Year
- 1982
- Duration
- 20:00
- Composed
- 5/3/1981 - 2/6/1982
- Comments
- Also see materials for Bamboula Squared
NEW YORK NOTES was written during 1981 and 1982 in response to a commission from the New York New Music Ensemble, to whom it is dedicated. Its twenty minute length is divided into a conventional three-movement succession, with fast movements outside and a slow movement inside. The tempo, however, is always the same, so that the differing speeds contained in the work are all expressed through note-value alterations rather than pulse changes. The six members of the ensemble (flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, percussion) are all engaged in virtuoso play, but I also think of their music as comprising three duets of the related pairs of instruments, as well as six solos.
-CW
