String Music

String Music

String Music is a composition for string orchestra, percussion, and tape in three movements. The work exploits both traditional and contemporary polyphonic techniques (e.g. imitation, inversion, canon, stretto, fugue, collage). In addition, each movement employs a different musical elementas the foc...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Simonsen, Paul H.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: North Texas State University 1978
Subjects:
string orchestras
scores
polyphonic techniques
traditional techniques
contemporary techniques
Online Access:https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1038884/
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Summary:String Music is a composition for string orchestra, percussion, and tape in three movements. The work exploits both traditional and contemporary polyphonic techniques (e.g. imitation, inversion, canon, stretto, fugue, collage). In addition, each movement employs a different musical elementas the focus of organization (timbre, pitch, rhythm/meter). The duration of the entire work is approximately eighteen and a half minutes.

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