Sheet Music: Performance Parts
Moments of falling : for string orchestra / Stuart Greenbaum
by Stuart Greenbaum (1996)
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Performance by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Leif Sondstrup from the CD Works for orchestra
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This piece
is dedicated to Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, and particularly in
respect to his Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten
(1977/1980). I first heard it in 1987 as a 20-year-old
undergraduate student. I was deeply impressed and some months
later in 1988, I attempted a similar mensuration canon structure,
but in a compound metre and also incorporating a phasing
technique learned from Steve Reich. Just another experiment in a
long line of minimalist pieces I wrote at that time - this one
was excitingly called 'process #19'.
But this particular 'process' stayed with me and in 1990 I made
an electronic version for a play, Atlanta (Joanna
Murray-Smith) involving a woman in her late twenties, who has
'moments of falling' where she imagines what it must be like to
walk through glass and come out on the other side. And so the
title stuck. In 1996, I orchestrated the piece for strings, which
is now the final version.
The most overtly minimalist piece I have written, Moments of
Falling is constructed around a cascading 16-note motive in
the Aeolian mode. It features a high degree of repetition, but as
the motive is overlaid at different speeds in different octaves,
no bar is ever exactly the same.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of 6 performance parts (16p. -- A4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 6 mins
Dedicated to Arvo Pärt
First performance by Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Leif Sundstrup — 20 Feb 97. Iwaki Auditorium, Melbourne
To hire these orchestral parts please contact the composer via www.stuartgreenbaum.com
Composer's no. GRT 033
Typeset edition.
This edition produced 2010.
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