SKU: AP.48098S
UPC: 038081553979. English.
Aberrations by Anthony Granata is an exciting contemporary work with constant deviation of time signature, rhythmic intensity, modern harmonies, and variety of counterpoint. The title refers to the frequent changes of the time signature, requiring musicians to move in and out of 6/8, 3/4, and 4/4. The double fugue and abundance of contrapuntal interplay make this a thrilling and challenging piece for your advanced orchestras. Students will love the driving accented A minor motif, the layered rich legato countermelodies, and the forceful coda. (2:45) This title available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.48098
UPC: 038081553962. English.
Aberrations by Anthony Granata is an exciting contemporary work with constant deviation of time signature, rhythmic intensity, modern harmonies, and variety of counterpoint. The title refers to the frequent changes of the time signature, requiring musicians to move in and out of 6/8, 3/4, and 4/4. The double fugue and abundance of contrapuntal interplay make this a thrilling and challenging piece for your advanced orchestras. Students will love the driving accented A minor motif, the layered rich legato countermelodies, and the forceful coda. (2:45) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: HL.14043500
UPC: 840126947366. 9.0x12.0x0.042 inches. English.
Click here to download the pre-recorded element (first link below the separator). Please email Wise Music if you encounter problems downloading the audio file. On the page, the violin part for Honest Music looks something like Terry Riley's In C, insofar as it's a collection of discrete, modular phrases to be recombined in “performance,†or in this case, by the electronic manipulation of the recording. But these aren't Riley's musical Lego blocks; most of these are long, expressive, idiomatic gestures, combining Nico's soaring English-choirboy diatonicism with Romantic, violinistic leaps and slides up and down the fingerboard. As these figures pile on top of each other, the close-miked, aberrant fiddle timbre comes to seem, as per the title of the piece, brutally candid. The other fragments, imitated in character by the sputtering harp and percussion of the accompaniment, sound more like scraps swept from a cutting-room floor somewhere - all false starts, warm-ups and afterbeats - and the glitchy, staticky noises in the background contribute to the sense of something rough, half-finished. The result is to suggest that all of Honest Music is an out-take, a rehearsal for another, wholly imaginary piece. But the gravity and authority of the harmonies (and the low drones) lend the makeshift nature of the piece an authentic drama in its own right: the sad beauty of things coming together and things falling apart.
