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Lake Ice

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Lake Ice : Missed Tales 1, Piano Reduction / Mary Finsterer.

by Mary Finsterer (2013)

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  • Instrumentation: Solo double bass (amplified), flute (doubling piccolo), alto flute (doubling flute), 2 oboes (2nd doubling cor anglais), clarinet in B flat, bass clarinet, bassoon, contra-bassoon, 2 French horns, 2 trumpets in C, bass trombone, timpani, percussion (2 players), harp, strings (6.6.4.4.2).
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    Performance by Kees Boersma, Sydney Symphony, Jessica Cottis from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 47.

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Like many parents, when I put my children to bed I engage in the common ritual of reading a story. In the search for tales that would enrich my kids' imagination I have scoured traditional literature from Greek myths to the Brothers Grimm. One day I came across an old book of fairytales I had read as a child. Here I discovered a compendium of stories influenced by the classics, but with beautiful and mysterious reinterpretations. I recalled my own memories of the book: the exotic landscapes, the trials and dangers...

This led me to wonder how I could illustrate or weave this feeling of storytelling through music. A concerto is a great vehicle for such an idea. One instrument can take the role of the main character who travels on a quest through different terrains. Music itself also represents a journey for the listener. Every sound is introduced by way of gesture; melodic or harmonic material must find its own path, which may not appear to have clear logic or sense, but always has a resolution.

The double bass appealed to me for such a work, as the sound of the instrument has always seemed to me like something from a faraway land. Seldom is it heard as a solo instrument leading an orchestra and rarely in the upper register. Its typical role is to do the heavy lifting for the ensemble.

Lake Ice is a response to this. It searches for ways to bring the double bass to the fore and highlights the many strange and beautiful sonorities it can produce.

Lake Ice sits at the apex of a series of musical pieces I've created called Missed Tales, based on the conceit that an anonymous collection of stories has been found after thousands of years in the recesses of a cave in Northern Europe. It explores ideas I have been developing from research into medieval music. My aim has been to find ways of re-thinking harmonic progressions through voice-leading.

Using the simple triad as my starting point, I have used 20th-century methods of analysis and generative processes to build harmonic progressions that produce unanticipated or unusual outcomes. In doing so, I hope to create harmonies that not only tell a story, but also challenge expectations.

Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 facsimile score 27p. -- A4 (portrait)) and 1 part (14p. -- A4 (portrait))

Difficulty: Advanced — Use of extended techniques

Duration: 19 mins

Dedication note: Dedicated to Eve & Wil Golja.

Commissioned by Sydney Symphony Orchestra.

First performance by Kees Boersma, Sydney Symphony, Jessica Cottis at Sydney Symphony: Finsterer (City Recital Hall) on 29 Aug 2013

Piano reduction of work for double bass and orchestra.

The composer notes the following influences, etc associated with this work:
early music, Renaissance, Vivaldi, Bach, musical narrative.

Typeset edition.

This edition produced 2019.

ISMN: 979-0-67311-577-4


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