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Imagining le Verrier

Sheet Music: Score

Imagining le Verrier : solo cello / Damien Ricketson.

by Damien Ricketson (2001)

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  • Library Availability: 787.4/RIC 1 — Available for loan
  • Instrumentation: Cello (amplification desirable).
  • Audio Sample

    Performance by Geoffrey Gartner from the CD Selected works by AMC represented artists, vol. 34.

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The title Imagining le Verrier is an astronomical reference to the discovery of the planet Neptune. In 1845 the English mathematician John Couch Adams proposed the existence of an undiscovered planet beyond the orbit of Uranus. (The planet was initially named Le Verrier after his rival French discoverer.) Adam's approach was controversial at the time because he did not make his claim based upon direct observation of the physical world, but rather, he applied mathematical modeling to predict the existence of an unseen world. The application of a model to go beyond the realm of the known to discover something new is an analogy that has resonated with many composers: to journey outside the realm of intuition so as to bring about a previously unheard world. In the creation of Imagining le Verrier artificial modeling was applied to the physical actions of the player, not to conventional musical parameters such as pitch. As such, Imagining le Verrier results from the composition of movement rather than sound. Patterns of tactile motions are used to structure the movements of the two hands of the cellist. The act of composition, therefore, becomes one of generating choreographic instructions, with the instrument being the physical landscape in which these movements take place.

Published by: Curious Noise — 1 score (8p. -- A4 (landscape))

Difficulty: Advanced

Duration: 10 min.

First performance by Geoffrey Gartner — 4 Mar 01. Bangarra Dance Theatre, Sydney

Includes program note and performance directions.

This is a handwritten edition — it is not typeset.

ISMN: M-720068-04-6

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Selected works by AMC represented artists, vol. 34.
CD: Selected works by AMC represented artists, vol. 34.

 

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