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Digital Sheet Music [PDF]: ScoreSilky Mist Softly Lingers... Red : for solo guzheng [eScore] / Bruce Crossman.by Bruce Crossman (2018)
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The music explores a drifting time sense where flanking sections of the work float free of time and explore tremoring string colours flicked with string harmonic moments as lingering gentle sounds peppered by sharpness as in Tang Xianzu's metaphorical poetry exploring sensuality through nature in the Kunqu classic, the "Peony Pavilion". The poetry's misty and vibrantly coloured visual images, with tactile softness and sudden cuckoo bird bursts of sound suggest sensual awakening and pulsing of lovers and nature as a departure point for the music. In my music, the flanking sections of softly suggestive harmonic lingering and tonal wriggling of sound awaken in the middle section into full-throated guzheng chords in arpeggios and plucked resonances tinged with dissonance. Against these rich sonorities, urgent tremolo figures push forward whilst held back by momentary harmonic micro-gardens of sound to final climax centrally in cascading arpeggios, sharp articulated dyad sounds with barré pressed sliding chords. The form of the music is one of ABA balance but with inward surges that almost destroy the form in their organicism; perhaps the emotive tensions of the work are a little like the colliding worlds of Confucianist order and Daoist flow that permeate the poetry of sensuality.
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 digital (PDF) facsimile score (7p. -- B4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced — Complex rhythmic detail and changing colour nuances
Duration: 9 mins
Commissioned by Chiu Tan Ching.
Includes program notes and performance instructions.
The composer notes the following styles, genres, influences, etc associated with this work:
Free jazz, Matthew Shipp Trio, traditional Chinese guzheng music, Kunqu (Chinese opera).
Typeset edition.
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